HashMap, BtreeMap and compound type Borrow

libs
1

The HashMap and BTreeMap API use the Borrow trait to implement type equivalent with regard to Hashing and Ordering. It allows to lookup in the Map without passing a value of the actual key type.

This works great for simple types, but it is impossible to do something like

let mut map = HashMap::<(u32, u32), String>::new();
map.insert((42, 42), "Hey".to_string());
map.get(&(&42, &42))

despite the fact that (&42, &42) and (42, 42) are hashing the same.

Indeed the Borrow trait has a method borrown(&self) -> &(&u32, &u32) in this case, and one can’t implement that. But the actual implementation doesn’t use the borrow method for real code, it is only called for testing purpose.

A way to specify type equivalence without this restriction could be useful.

2

This topic was automatically closed 90 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.