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Refine conversions between array types

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
rust
Domain
data

Research direction

Read the discussion in #1021 first, then inspect the current DataOwned and Data APIs and existing From implementations. The work is complete when into_shared has the requested ownership and Clone behavior and the specified additional array-type conversions are implemented consistently.

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Description

breaking-change

  • Move into_shared from DataOwned to Data, add an A: Clone bound, and drop the "without any copying" guarantee. (See the discussion in #1021.)

  • Implement From for more combinations of array types.

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