Document collection `From` and `FromIterator` impls that drop duplicate keys.

This behavior is worth documenting because there are other plausible
alternatives, such as panicking when a duplicate is encountered, and
it reminds the programmer to consider whether they should, for example,
coalesce duplicate keys first.

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/library/std/src/collections/hash/map.rs b/library/std/src/collections/hash/map.rs
index 109bc394634..5b2cd53763b 100644
--- a/library/std/src/collections/hash/map.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/collections/hash/map.rs
@@ -1446,6 +1446,11 @@ impl<K, V, const N: usize> From<[(K, V); N]> for HashMap<K, V, RandomState>
 where
     K: Eq + Hash,
 {
+    /// Converts a `[(K, V); N]` into a `HashMap<K, V>`.
+    ///
+    /// If any entries in the array have equal keys, all but the last entry for each such key
+    /// are discarded.
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// ```
@@ -3219,6 +3224,10 @@ where
     K: Eq + Hash,
     S: BuildHasher + Default,
 {
+    /// Constructs a `HashMap<K, V>` from an iterator of key-value pairs.
+    ///
+    /// If the iterator produces any pairs with equal keys,
+    /// all but the last value for each such key are discarded.
     fn from_iter<T: IntoIterator<Item = (K, V)>>(iter: T) -> HashMap<K, V, S> {
         let mut map = HashMap::with_hasher(Default::default());
         map.extend(iter);
diff --git a/library/std/src/collections/hash/set.rs b/library/std/src/collections/hash/set.rs
index 4c81aaff458..8e840aaa07f 100644
--- a/library/std/src/collections/hash/set.rs
+++ b/library/std/src/collections/hash/set.rs
@@ -1091,6 +1091,10 @@ impl<T, const N: usize> From<[T; N]> for HashSet<T, RandomState>
 where
     T: Eq + Hash,
 {
+    /// Converts a `[T; N]` into a `HashSet<T>`.
+    ///
+    /// If the array contains any equal values, all but the last instance of each are discarded.
+    ///
     /// # Examples
     ///
     /// ```