replace_with
Temporarily take ownership of a value at a mutable location, and replace it with a new value based on the old one.
This crate provides the function replace_with()
, which is like std::mem::replace()
except it allows the replacement value to be mapped from the original value.
See RFC 1736 for a lot of discussion as to its merits. It was never merged, and the desired ability to temporarily move out of &mut T
doesn't exist yet, so this crate is my interim solution.
It's very akin to take_mut
, though uses Drop
instead of std::panic::catch_unwind()
to react to unwinding, which avoids the optimisation barrier of calling the extern "C" __rust_maybe_catch_panic()
. As such it's up to ∞x faster. It's also aesthetically a little prettier (I think).
Example
Consider this motivating example:
Depending on context this can be quite tricky to work around. With this crate, however:
Huzzah!
License
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