EmptyBox, a way to safely move values in and out of Boxs without

reallocations

EmptyBox is similar to a statically checked Box<Option<T>>:

use empty_box::EmptyBox;

// A box with a string!
let boxed = Box::new("Hello!".to_string());

// Oh no, we don't like that string.
let (string, empty) = EmptyBox::take(boxed);

// Let's make an objectively superior string, and put it into the original
// box.
let superior = "Objectively superior string!".to_string();

// Now we have our superior string in the box!
let boxed = empty.put(superior); 

assert_eq!("Hello!", string);
assert_eq!("Objectively superior string!", &*boxed);

Creating an EmptyBox from a Box and then putting a T back into the EmptyBox will avoid allocating a new Box, instead reusing whatever old Box the T was EmptyBox::taken from.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

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