Add impls of the comparison operators for fixed-length arrays of lengths 0...32 and repair various cases where slices and fixed-length arrays were being compared.

src/libcore/array.rs

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+// Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+/*!
+ * Implementations of things like `Eq` for fixed-length arrays
+ * up to a certain length. Eventually we should able to generalize
+ * to all lengths.
+ */
+
+#![doc(primitive = "tuple")]
+#![stable]
+
+#[unstable = "this is just a documentation module and should not be part \
+              of the public api"]
+pub use unit;
+
+use cmp::*;
+use option::{Option};
+
+// macro for implementing n-ary tuple functions and operations
+macro_rules! array_impls {
+    ($($N:expr)+) => {
+        $(
+            #[unstable = "waiting for PartialEq to stabilize"]
+            impl<T:PartialEq> PartialEq for [T, ..$N] {
+                #[inline]
+                fn eq(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> bool {
+                    self[] == other[]
+                }
+                #[inline]
+                fn ne(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> bool {
+                    self[] != other[]
+                }
+            }
+
+            #[unstable = "waiting for Eq to stabilize"]
+            impl<T:Eq> Eq for [T, ..$N] { }
+
+            #[unstable = "waiting for PartialOrd to stabilize"]
+            impl<T:PartialOrd> PartialOrd for [T, ..$N] {
+                #[inline]
+                fn partial_cmp(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> Option<Ordering> {
+                    PartialOrd::partial_cmp(&self[], &other[])
+                }
+                #[inline]
+                fn lt(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> bool {
+                    PartialOrd::lt(&self[], &other[])
+                }
+                #[inline]
+                fn le(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> bool {
+                    PartialOrd::le(&self[], &other[])
+                }
+                #[inline]
+                fn ge(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> bool {
+                    PartialOrd::ge(&self[], &other[])
+                }
+                #[inline]
+                fn gt(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> bool {
+                    PartialOrd::gt(&self[], &other[])
+                }
+            }
+
+            #[unstable = "waiting for Ord to stabilize"]
+            impl<T:Ord> Ord for [T, ..$N] {
+                #[inline]
+                fn cmp(&self, other: &[T, ..$N]) -> Ordering {
+                    Ord::cmp(&self[], &other[])
+                }
+            }
+        )+
+    }
+}
+
+array_impls! {
+     0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9
+    10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
+    20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
+    30 31 32
+}
+