This means that `EscapeIterInner::as_str` no longer needs unsafe code, because the type system ensures the internal buffer is only ASCII, and thus valid UTF-8.
Change core::char::{EscapeUnicode, EscapeDefault and EscapeDebug}
structures from using a state machine to computing escaped sequence
upfront and during iteration just going through the characters.
This is arguably simpler since it’s easier to think about having
a buffer and start..end range to iterate over rather than thinking
about a state machine.
This also harmonises implementation of aforementioned iterators and
core::ascii::EscapeDefault struct. This is done by introducing a new
helper EscapeIterInner struct which holds the buffer and offers simple
methods for iterating over range.
As a side effect, this probably optimises Display implementation for
those types since rather than calling write_char repeatedly, write_str
is invoked once. On 64-bit platforms, it also reduces size of some of
the structs:
| Struct | Before | After |
|----------------------------+--------+-------+
| core::char::EscapeUnicode | 16 | 12 |
| core::char::EscapeDefault | 16 | 12 |
| core::char::EscapeDebug | 16 | 16 |
My ulterior motive and reason why I started looking into this is
addition of as_str method to the iterators. With this change this
will became trivial. It’s also going to be trivial to implement
DoubleEndedIterator if that’s ever desired.
