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Flesh out functionality

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
rust
Domain
data

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing Vec implementation and the checklist in this issue. Decide which methods fit NonEmpty semantics, then resolve the unchecked, length-changing, and conversion cases before coding. Done means the selected entries are implemented or explicitly rejected, with the checklist reflecting those decisions; no files or tests are named.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

We should flesh out the functionality of nonempty. A lot of it would just be the Vec implementation.
Enumerating these for clarity and also to comment on which ones we may not want:

  • append
  • as_mut_ptr N/A (memory is not contiguous)
  • as_mut_slice N/A
  • as_ptr N/A
  • as_slice N/A
  • capacity
  • chunks
  • chunks_exact
  • chunks_exact_mut
  • chunks_mut
  • clone_from_slice - we use from_slice, we should rename This doesn't make sense either since it's just copying a slice's contents in, but we can't guarantee a length of 1 without panicing.
  • concat
  • connect
  • contains
  • copy_from_slice - we have from_slice but a Copy version would be good Looking into the semantics of this, I think it doesn't suit NonEmpty after all.
  • copy_within
  • clear - we probably don't want this
  • dedup
  • dedup_by
  • drain - wouldn't make sense for NonEmpty unless it returned a Vec rather than Drain
  • drain_filter - same as above
  • ends_with
  • eq_ignore_ascii_case
  • extend_from_slice
  • first
  • first_mut
  • from_raw_parts - this seems unecessary
  • get
  • get_mut
  • get_unchecked
  • get_unchecked_mut
  • insert
  • into_boxed_slice
  • into_raw_parts - not sure about this one
  • is_ascii
  • is_empty
  • is_sorted
  • is_sorted_by_key
  • iter
  • iter_mut
  • join
  • last
  • last_mut
  • leak - seems specialised
  • len
  • make_ascii_lowercase
  • make_ascii_uppercase
  • new
  • partition_at_index
  • partition_at_index_by
  • partition_at_index_by_key
  • partition_deup
  • partition_deup_by
  • partition_deup_by_key
  • pop
  • push
  • rchunks
  • rchunks_exact
  • rchunks_exact_mut
  • rchunks_mut
  • remove - should give back Vec
  • remove_item - should give back Vec
  • repeat
  • reserve
  • reserve_exact
  • resize - possibly just work on the tail Vec
  • resize_default
  • resize_wtih
  • retain - unsure if this should be kept
  • reverse
  • rotate_left
  • rotate_right
  • rsplit
  • rsplit_mut
  • rsplitn
  • rsplitn_mut
  • set_len
  • shrink_to - should be greater than 1
  • shrink_to_fit
  • sort
  • sort_by
  • sort_by_cahced_key
  • sort_by_key
  • sort_unstable
  • sort_unstable_by
  • sort_unstable_by_key
  • splice
  • split
  • split_at
  • split_at_mut
  • split_first
  • split_first_mut
  • split_last
  • split_last
  • split_last_mut
  • split_mut
  • split_off
  • splitn
  • splitn_mut
  • starts_with
  • swap
  • swap_with_slice
  • to_ascii_lowercase
  • to_ascii_uppercase
  • to_vec - the Into impl does this
  • try_reserve
  • try_reserve_exact
  • windows
  • with_capacity
  • From<NonEmpty<T>> for Vec<T> - https://github.com/cloudhead/nonempty/pull/17#issuecomment-600217655
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