Tracking Issue for String::into_chars

[tisonkun]

Feature gate: #![feature(string_into_chars)]

This is a tracking issue for:

• String::into_chars

Public API

impl String {
    pub fn into_chars(self) -> IntoChars {
        IntoChars { bytes: self.into_bytes().into_iter() }
    }
}

impl Iterator for IntoChars {
    type Item = char;
}

Steps / History

• ACP: Implement into_chars for String libs-team#268
• Implementation: Impl String::into_chars #133057
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• None yet.

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩

[leb-kuchen]

Why does IntoChars have an into_string method, when it has to do memmove.
Vec::IntoIter also does not have into_vec.