metatype

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Helper methods to determine whether a type is TraitObject, Slice or Concrete, and work with them respectively.

Examples

```rust asserteq!(usize::METATYPE, MetaType::Concrete); asserteq!(any::Any::METATYPE, MetaType::TraitObject); assert_eq!(<[u8]>::METATYPE, MetaType::Slice);

let a: Box = Box::new(123); asserteq!(Type::metatype(&a), MetaType::Concrete); let a: Box = a; assert_eq!(Type::meta_type(&a), MetaType::TraitObject);

let a = [123,456]; asserteq!(Type::metatype(&a), MetaType::Concrete); let a: &[i32] = &a; asserteq!(Type::metatype(a), MetaType::Slice);

let a: Box = Box::new(123); let meta: TraitObject = type_coerce(Type::meta(&*a)); println!("vtable: {:?}", meta.vtable); ```

Note

This currently requires Rust nightly for the raw, specialization and arbitrary_self_types features.

License

Licensed under either of

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

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