...to allow easier greater-than-or-equal-to and less-than-or-equal-to
comparisons, and variant checking without needing to import the enum,
similar to `Option::is_none()` / `Option::is_some()`, in situations where
you are dealing with an `Ordering` value. (Simple `PartialOrd` / `Ord`
based evaluation may not be suitable for all situations).
Prior to Rust 1.42 a greater-than-or-equal-to comparison might be written
either as a match block, or a traditional conditional check like this:
```rust
if cmp == Ordering::Equal || cmp == Ordering::Greater {
// Do something
}
```
Which requires two instances of `cmp`. Don't forget that while `cmp` here
is very short, it could be something much longer in real use cases.
From Rust 1.42 a nicer alternative is possible:
```rust
if matches!(cmp, Ordering::Equal | Ordering::Greater) {
// Do something
}
```
The commit adds another alternative which may be even better in some cases:
```rust
if cmp.is_ge() {
// Do something
}
```
The earlier examples could be cleaner than they are if the variants of
`Ordering` are imported such that `Equal`, `Greater` and `Less` can be
referred to directly, but not everyone will want to do that.
The new solution can shorten lines, help avoid logic mistakes, and avoids
having to import `Ordering` / `Ordering::*`.
Stabilize clamp
Tracking issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/44095
Clamp has been merged and unstable for about a year and a half now. How do we feel about stabilizing this?
Constify the following methods of `core::cmp::Ordering`:
- `reverse`
- `then`
Stabilizes these methods as const under the `const_ordering` feature.
Also adds a test for these methods in a const context.
Possible because of #49146 (Allow `if` and `match` in constants).
Make some Ordering methods const
Constify the following methods of `core::cmp::Ordering`:
- `reverse`
- `then`
Possible because of #49146 (Allow `if` and `match` in constants).
Tracking issue: #76113
Jad Ghalayini
David Tolnay
Marvin Huber
Eric Seppanen
Chayim Refael Friedman
Lyndon Brown
bors
Jacob Kiesel
Camelid
Rustin-Liu
Alexis Bourget
CDirkx
Dylan MacKenzie
Yuki Okushi
Ayush Kumar Mishra
Lzu Tao
Denis Vasilik
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