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authorManish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2018-05-07 09:30:11 -0700
committerManish Goregaokar <manishsmail@gmail.com>2018-05-07 10:26:29 -0700
commita72a0801bdab22d7c0167f67d1148276ea874d2e (patch)
tree7117b694cee859a5646d6b07c07506c4abd102aa /src/liballoc
parentf8b774fbf1f57e520b58ae3828e4b3a1ddf1d97c (diff)
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Add explanation for #[must_use] on string replace methods
Diffstat (limited to 'src/liballoc')
-rw-r--r--src/liballoc/str.rs6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/liballoc/str.rs b/src/liballoc/str.rs
index 0cbe65db53c..9e693c89be9 100644
--- a/src/liballoc/str.rs
+++ b/src/liballoc/str.rs
@@ -207,7 +207,8 @@ impl str {
     /// let s = "this is old";
     /// assert_eq!(s, s.replace("cookie monster", "little lamb"));
     /// ```
-    #[must_use]
+    #[must_use = "this returns the replaced string as a new allocation, \
+                  without modifying the original"]
     #[stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")]
     #[inline]
     pub fn replace<'a, P: Pattern<'a>>(&'a self, from: P, to: &str) -> String {
@@ -247,7 +248,8 @@ impl str {
     /// let s = "this is old";
     /// assert_eq!(s, s.replacen("cookie monster", "little lamb", 10));
     /// ```
-    #[must_use]
+    #[must_use = "this returns the replaced string as a new allocation, \
+                  without modifying the original"]
     #[stable(feature = "str_replacen", since = "1.16.0")]
     pub fn replacen<'a, P: Pattern<'a>>(&'a self, pat: P, to: &str, count: usize) -> String {
         // Hope to reduce the times of re-allocation