The workaround for this is a wrapper struct around the fixed-size vec, with the trait methods you want impl'd on the wrapper.
I've got a macro for this: https://github.com/jfager/d3cap/blob/master/fixed_vec_macros.rs So to wrap a [u16,..8], you'd say something like: fixed_vec!(WrapperType, u16, 8) and get a back a type called WrapperType implementing IterBytes, Eq, Ord, and Clone (would be easy to add others). Not ideal, but useful until this gets straightened out. On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:19 AM, Daniel Micay <[email protected]>wrote: > On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Ashish Myles <[email protected]> wrote: > > Now, I already know that statically-sized arrays of primitives are > > implicitly copyable, but consider, for example, a statically-sized array > of > > a non-copyable but Clone-able type. I find that for v of type [T, ..2], > > v.clone() is not a static array. Perhaps it's because v is being > implicitly > > treated as &[T] instead. > > > > Eg. > > -------------------------------------------------- > > fn make_clone<T : Clone>(a : &T) -> T { > > a.clone(); > > } > > > > fn main() { > > let a : [int, ..2] = [1, 2]; > > // error: failed to find an implementation of trait std::clone::Clone > > // for [int, .. 2] > > make_clone(&a); > > > > let a : [int, ..2] = [1, 2]; > > // error: mismatched types: expected `[int, .. 2]` but found `&[int]` > > // ([] storage differs: expected 2 but found &) > > let b : [int, ..2] = a.clone(); > > } > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > So is it a missing feature of rust that Clone is not supported generated > for > > statically-sized arrays or is there a more fundamental reason that it > > doesn't exist? > > > > Ashish > > Clone is entirely a library feature, and Rust currently provides no > way to implement methods on fixed-size arrays. The latter is the real > issue, because there are other methods like `Eq` that should be > implemented on them too. > _______________________________________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev >
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