The type is unsafe and now exposed to the whole crate.
Document it properly and add an unsafe method so the
caller can make it visible that something unsafe is happening.
Clarify `array::from_fn` documentation
I've seen quite a few of people on social media confused of where the length of array is coming from in the newly stabilized `array::from_fn` example.
This PR tries to clarify the documentation on this.
On my first Rust project, I spent more time than I care to admit
figuring out how to efficiently get an array from a slice. Update the
array documentation to explain this a bit more clearly.
(As a side note, it's a bit unfortunate that get-array-from-slice is
only available via trait since that means it can't be used from const
functions yet.)
Fixes 85115
This only updates unstable functions.
`array::try_map` didn't actually exist before, despite the tracking issue 79711 still being open from the old PR 79713.
Because after PR 86041, the optimizer no longer load-merges at the LLVM IR level, which might be part of the perf loss. (I'll run perf and see if this makes a difference.)
Also I added a codegen test so this hopefully won't regress in future -- it passes on stable and with my change here, but not on the 2021-11-09 nightly.
Add 'core::array::from_fn' and 'core::array::try_from_fn'
These auxiliary methods fill uninitialized arrays in a safe way and are particularly useful for elements that don't implement `Default`.
```rust
// Foo doesn't implement Default
struct Foo(usize);
let _array = core::array::from_fn::<_, _, 2>(|idx| Foo(idx));
```
Different from `FromIterator`, it is guaranteed that the array will be fully filled and no error regarding uninitialized state will be throw. In certain scenarios, however, the creation of an **element** can fail and that is why the `try_from_fn` function is also provided.
```rust
#[derive(Debug, PartialEq)]
enum SomeError {
Foo,
}
let array = core::array::try_from_fn(|i| Ok::<_, SomeError>(i));
assert_eq!(array, Ok([0, 1, 2, 3, 4]));
let another_array = core::array::try_from_fn(|_| Err(SomeError::Foo));
assert_eq!(another_array, Err(SomeError::Foo));
```
Partially stabilize `array_methods`
This stabilizes `<[T; N]>::as_slice` and `<[T; N]>::as_mut_slice`, which is forms part of the `array_methods` feature: #76118.
This also makes `<[T; N]>::as_slice` const due to its trivial nature.
Add links in docs for some primitive types
This pull request adds additional links in existing documentation of some of the primitive types.
Where items are linked only once, I have used the `[link](destination)` format. For items in `std`, I have linked directly to the HTML, since although the primitives are in `core`, they are not displayed on `core` documentation. I was unsure of what length I should keep lines of documentation to, so I tried to keep them within reason.
Additionally, I have avoided excessively linking to keywords like `self` when they are not relevant to the documentation. I can add these links if it would be an improvement.
I hope this can improve Rust. Please let me know if there's anything I did wrong!
