clamps

Wrapping, saturating, and other forms of number clamping!

Doing this sucks:

if foo >= min && foo <= max {
    // do stuff
}

Instead, it'd be great if we could encode max and min into the type of foo somehow, so that we can get all the benefits of bounds checking without having to hard-code the busy-work ourselves. Ada has a nice solution with its range and mod types, and it would be great if Rust had them, too.

What's in this crate?

Clamps provides a variety of types with three basic forms:

• Bounded
  • Can't be constructed from an out-of-bounds value.
• Wrapping
  • Will wrap to fit within bounds when constructed from a value.
  • Similar to Ada's mod type.
  • Implements AddAssign, SubAssign, etc.
• Saturating
  • Will "saturate" to fit within bounds when constructed from a value:
    • Values that are too large will be set to MAX.
    • Values that are too small will be set to MIN.
  • Implements AddAssign, SubAssign, etc.

All three variants have generic and concrete forms. The generic types are slightly more expensive and cumbersome, but can be used with more types. The concrete forms are cheap and easier to use, but are currently limited to integers.

The generic variants also allow you to assign their bounds at runtime, which can help when dynamically checking indexes, etc.