coercion

In-place type conversion.

lib.rs:

In-place conversions between types of the same size and alignment.

Examples

use coercion::{Coerce, As};

let u8_slice: Box<[u8]> = vec![1,0,1,0].into_boxed_slice();

// Safe because true as u8 == 1
let bool_slice: Box<[bool]> = unsafe { u8_slice.coerce() };

assert_eq!(&bool_slice[..], &[true, false, true, false]);

// Don't need unsafe, because any bool is a valid u8
let u8_slice: Box<[u8]> = bool_slice.as_();
assert_eq!(&u8_slice[..], &[1,0,1,0]);

Both Coerce and As are implemented for str:

use coercion::{Coerce, As};

let boxed_str = Box::<str>::from("Hello World!");

let boxed_bytes = boxed_str.as_();
assert_eq!(&boxed_bytes[..], b"Hello World!");

let boxed_str: Box<str> = unsafe { boxed_bytes.coerce() };
assert_eq!(&*boxed_str, "Hello World!");