Crate pinpoint

This crate provides the IntoPin trait. IntoPin can be used to wrap any type in a Pin, but is powerfull in creating coerced, pinned references.

Examples

#![feature(pin)]

extern crate pinpoint;
use std::pin::Pin;
use pinpoint::IntoPin;

let v = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5];

let pinned_slice: Pin<&[u32]> = (&v).into_pin();

An example using generics:

#![feature(pin)]

extern crate pinpoint;
use std::pin::Pin;
use pinpoint::IntoPin;

fn example<'a, P>(item: P)
where
    P: IntoPin<&'a mut [u8]>
{
    let mut pin = item.into_pin();

    pin.reverse();
}

let mut v = vec![1, 2, 3, 4];
example(&mut v);
assert_eq!(v, [4, 3, 2, 1]);

let mut b: Box<[u8]> = Box::new([4, 3, 2, 1]);
example(&mut b);
assert_eq!(*b, [1, 2, 3, 4]);

Features

In order to use the IntoPin trait, this crate should be used with the feature pinned of this crate turned on. In order to create a pinned slice containg Cell types from a Cell containing a slice, use the slice_of_cells feature of this crate.