Tracking Issue for `Box::take`

[edwloef]

Feature gate: #![feature(box_take)]

This is a tracking issue for Box::take, which adds the ability to move the value out of a Box without consuming its allocation.

Public API

impl<T> Box<T> {
    pub fn take(boxed: Box<T>) -> (T, Box<MaybeUninit<T>>);
}

Steps / History

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• ACP: Box::take for taking the value out of a box without deallocating it libs-team#663
• Implementation: implement Box::take #147227
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

• Is take the right name? Box::take for taking the value out of a box without deallocating it libs-team#663 (comment)

Footnotes

1. https://std-dev-guide.rust-lang.org/feature-lifecycle/stabilization.html ↩

[camsteffen]

Name idea: into_inner_and_uninit

[edwloef]

@rustbot label -S-tracking-unimplemented