bstr Someday: implement `ByteSlice` for `[u8; N]` using const generics

Someday: implement `ByteSlice` for `[u8; N]` using const generics

Open thomcc opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

In the distant future, when bstr can use const generics, the following reduces the amount of B(b"blah") you need to to literals do by a decent amount, letting you use ByteSlice methods directly on b"foo".

(Of course, you still need B for the &str literal case, e.g. B("😅") and such, but in practice that case isn't as bad, since as_bytes() also works)

impl<const N: usize> ByteSlice for [u8; N] {
    #[inline]
    fn as_bytes(&self) -> &[u8] {
        self
    }

    #[inline]
    fn as_bytes_mut(&mut self) -> &mut [u8] {
        self
    }
}

(Well, in practice you also need impl<const N: usize> Sealed for [u8; N] {}, but that's not important).

Nothing to do for now, but would be a nice thing to add when (or if, I guess) the MSRV gets to 1.51.