Auto merge of #38 - Marwes:deref_slice, r=jdm

Specify that VecLike derefs to a slice

I believe this is just an oversight. Since `<[T]>::len` is now available through the `Deref` bound I also removed `VecLike::len`.

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Author: bors-servo

Cargo.toml

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "smallvec"
-version = "0.2.1"
+version = "0.3.0"
 authors = ["Simon Sapin <simon.sapin@exyr.org>"]
 license = "MPL-2.0"
 repository = "https://github.com/servo/rust-smallvec"

lib.rs

@@ -29,19 +29,13 @@ pub trait VecLike<T>:
         ops::IndexMut<ops::RangeTo<usize>> +
         ops::Index<ops::RangeFull, Output=[T]> +
         ops::IndexMut<ops::RangeFull> +
-        ops::Deref +
-        ops::DerefMut +
+        ops::DerefMut<Target = [T]> +
         Extend<T> {
 
-    fn len(&self) -> usize;
     fn push(&mut self, value: T);
 }
 
 impl<T> VecLike<T> for Vec<T> {
-    #[inline]
-    fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        Vec::len(self)
-    }
 
     #[inline]
     fn push(&mut self, value: T) {
@@ -150,12 +144,15 @@ impl<A: Array> SmallVec<A> {
     pub fn inline_size(&self) -> usize {
         A::size()
     }
+    
     pub fn len(&self) -> usize {
         self.len
     }
+
     pub fn is_empty(&self) -> bool {
         self.len == 0
     }
+
     pub fn capacity(&self) -> usize {
         match self.data {
             Inline { .. } => A::size(),
@@ -401,11 +398,6 @@ impl_index!(ops::RangeFull, [A::Item]);
 
 
 impl<A: Array> VecLike<A::Item> for SmallVec<A> {
-    #[inline]
-    fn len(&self) -> usize {
-        SmallVec::len(self)
-    }
-
     #[inline]
     fn push(&mut self, value: A::Item) {
         SmallVec::push(self, value);
@@ -1014,4 +1006,20 @@ pub mod tests {
         assert_eq!(vec.clone().into_iter().len(), 3);
         assert_eq!(vec.drain().len(), 3);
     }
+
+    #[test]
+    fn veclike_deref_slice() {
+        use super::VecLike;
+
+        fn test<T: VecLike<i32>>(vec: &mut T) {
+            assert!(!vec.is_empty());
+            assert_eq!(vec.len(), 3);
+
+            vec.sort();
+            assert_eq!(&vec[..], [1, 2, 3]);
+        }
+
+        let mut vec = SmallVec::<[i32; 2]>::from(&[3, 1, 2][..]);
+        test(&mut vec);
+    }
 }