auto merge of #19378 : japaric/rust/no-as-slice, r=alexcrichton

Now that we have an overloaded comparison (`==`) operator, and that `Vec`/`String` deref to `[T]`/`str` on method calls, many `as_slice()`/`as_mut_slice()`/`to_string()` calls have become redundant. This patch removes them. These were the most common patterns:

- `assert_eq(test_output.as_slice(), "ground truth")` -> `assert_eq(test_output, "ground truth")`
- `assert_eq(test_output, "ground truth".to_string())` -> `assert_eq(test_output, "ground truth")`
- `vec.as_mut_slice().sort()` -> `vec.sort()`
- `vec.as_slice().slice(from, to)` -> `vec.slice(from_to)`

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Note that e.g. `a_string.push_str(b_string.as_slice())` has been left untouched in this PR, since we first need to settle down whether we want to favor the `&*b_string` or the `b_string[]` notation.

This is rebased on top of #19167

cc @alexcrichton @aturon 

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libstd/path/mod.rs b/src/libstd/path/mod.rs
index 01b42395471..c7feff8705e 100644
--- a/src/libstd/path/mod.rs
+++ b/src/libstd/path/mod.rs
@@ -942,6 +942,6 @@ mod tests {
 
         let input = r"\foo\bar\baz";
         let path: WindowsPath = WindowsPath::new(input.to_c_str());
-        assert_eq!(path.as_str().unwrap(), input.as_slice());
+        assert_eq!(path.as_str().unwrap(), input);
     }
 }