Feature Request: Convert option-types to pointers

[quadrupleslap]

The pointer primitive has

unsafe fn as_ref<'a>(self) -> Option<&'a T>;

but the converse doesn’t seem to exist

fn from_ref(Option<&T>) -> *const T;

but I think it should. Not sure what module it’d go in, though - std::ptr?

Is this even where feature requests go?

[oli-obk]

There’s some previous discussion in this rfc issue

[jjpe]

At least for now I suggest you write an extension trait for Option and put your method in there. That way you don’t need to care about stdlib, and you still get nice method syntax.

[system]

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