AnyStr?

[CarlKCarlK]

Discussed in #2

^{Originally posted by NicholasSterling October 30, 2022}
Interesting crate -- thanks for the contribution.

This is a minor point, but when I saw AnyString I thought "oh no, if I had an &str, I wouldn't necessarily want it to be converted to a String." But the target type for AnyString is actually &str. So this leaves me with two thoughts:

1. Would it be clearer to call that AnyStr?
2. Do you want an AnyString (with a target type of String) too?

[Supermath101]

Or, you could have a more explicit name: AnyOwnedString, and either AnyBorrowedStr or AnyStrSlice?

[CarlKCarlK]

Thanks for the suggestions!

I'm leaning now to changing the current AnyString (which produces a &str) to AnyStr. I'll increment the version of the library because this would be a breaking change.

Then the question would be is should there be an "AnyString" that creates a String. I'm leaning towards not doing that until/unless there is demand.