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awelkie
awelkie

Reputation: 2642

How to bound the type of Iterator::Item?

I'm not sure how to specify bounds on the type of the output of the iterator for generic iterators. Before Rust 1.0, I used to be able to do this:

fn somefunc<A: Int, I: Iterator<A>>(xs: I) {
    xs.next().unwrap().pow(2);
}

But now, I'm not sure how to put bounds on the iterator's Item type.

fn somefunc<I: Iterator>(xs: I) {
    xs.next().unwrap().pow(2);
}

error: no method named `pow` found for type `<I as std::iter::Iterator>::Item` in the current scope
 --> src/main.rs:2:28
  |
2 |         xs.next().unwrap().pow(2);
  |                            ^^^

How can I get this to work?

Upvotes: 12

Views: 3347

Answers (1)

Vladimir Matveev
Vladimir Matveev

Reputation: 127831

You can introduce a second generic type parameter and place the bound on that:

fn somefunc<A: Int, I: Iterator<Item = A>>(mut xs: I) {
    xs.next().unwrap().pow(2);
}

You can also place trait bounds on the associated type itself 

fn somefunc<I: Iterator>(mut xs: I)
where
    I::Item: Int,
{
    xs.next().unwrap().pow(2);
}

Upvotes: 21

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