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diff --git a/library/alloc/src/slice.rs b/library/alloc/src/slice.rs index 5733124ec75..bcd3f49e208 100644 --- a/library/alloc/src/slice.rs +++ b/library/alloc/src/slice.rs @@ -1,82 +1,12 @@ -//! A dynamically-sized view into a contiguous sequence, `[T]`. +//! Utilities for the slice primitive type. //! //! *[See also the slice primitive type](slice).* //! -//! Slices are a view into a block of memory represented as a pointer and a -//! length. +//! Most of the structs in this module are iterator types which can only be created +//! using a certain function. For example, `slice.iter()` yields an [`Iter`]. //! -//! ``` -//! // slicing a Vec -//! let vec = vec![1, 2, 3]; -//! let int_slice = &vec[..]; -//! // coercing an array to a slice -//! let str_slice: &[&str] = &["one", "two", "three"]; -//! ``` -//! -//! Slices are either mutable or shared. The shared slice type is `&[T]`, -//! while the mutable slice type is `&mut [T]`, where `T` represents the element -//! type. For example, you can mutate the block of memory that a mutable slice -//! points to: -//! -//! ``` -//! let x = &mut [1, 2, 3]; -//! x[1] = 7; -//! assert_eq!(x, &[1, 7, 3]); -//! ``` -//! -//! Here are some of the things this module contains: -//! -//! ## Structs -//! -//! There are several structs that are useful for slices, such as [`Iter`], which -//! represents iteration over a slice. -//! -//! ## Trait Implementations -//! -//! There are several implementations of common traits for slices. Some examples -//! include: -//! -//! * [`Clone`] -//! * [`Eq`], [`Ord`] - for slices whose element type are [`Eq`] or [`Ord`]. -//! * [`Hash`] - for slices whose element type is [`Hash`]. -//! -//! ## Iteration -//! -//! The slices implement `IntoIterator`. The iterator yields references to the -//! slice elements. -//! -//! ``` -//! let numbers = &[0, 1, 2]; -//! for n in numbers { -//! println!("{n} is a number!"); -//! } -//! ``` -//! -//! The mutable slice yields mutable references to the elements: -//! -//! ``` -//! let mut scores = [7, 8, 9]; -//! for score in &mut scores[..] { -//! *score += 1; -//! } -//! ``` -//! -//! This iterator yields mutable references to the slice's elements, so while -//! the element type of the slice is `i32`, the element type of the iterator is -//! `&mut i32`. -//! -//! * [`.iter`] and [`.iter_mut`] are the explicit methods to return the default -//! iterators. -//! * Further methods that return iterators are [`.split`], [`.splitn`], -//! [`.chunks`], [`.windows`] and more. -//! -//! [`Hash`]: core::hash::Hash -//! [`.iter`]: slice::iter -//! [`.iter_mut`]: slice::iter_mut -//! [`.split`]: slice::split -//! [`.splitn`]: slice::splitn -//! [`.chunks`]: slice::chunks -//! [`.windows`]: slice::windows +//! A few functions are provided to create a slice from a value reference +//! or from a raw pointer. #![stable(feature = "rust1", since = "1.0.0")] // Many of the usings in this module are only used in the test configuration. // It's cleaner to just turn off the unused_imports warning than to fix them. |
