Smart accessors for Rust

Overview

There are many sorts of “smart pointers”. They have following things in common:

• a simple protocol for accessing the data (make some bookkeeping and then give something equivalent to a raw pointer to the data)
• some nontrivial logic of ownership management

This crate provides “smart accessors”:

• they aren't concerned with questions of ownership
• they give a bidirectional view of the data: updating the accessed data can cause a nontrivial change of other data linked with the data being accessed
• the accessed view can be entirely virtual: it can be constructed only for the duration of the access

For code examples see the docs.

Usage

Simply include

smart_access = "0.1"

in your Cargo.toml.

Versions

• 0.1.2: A bit more user-friendly docs.
• 0.1.1: Only the README has been updated.
• 0.1.0: The first iteration.