Oddly enough, that was the first thing I jumped to as well! I think that type inference like that doesn't drive method selection, which is why it ended up not working out.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 3:54 AM, Michael Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Am 29.04.2014 22:51, schrieb Alex Crichton: > >> The by_ref() method exists on both the Reader and the Writer trait, >> and you're working with a stream which implements both Reader and >> Writer (hence the confusion by the compiler). >> >> You could work around it with something like: >> >> fn rdr<'a, T: Reader>(t: &'a mut T) -> RefReader<'a, T> { >> t.by_ref() >> } >> >> Eventually, with UFCS, you'll be able to do something like: >> >> let rdr = Reader::by_ref(&mut inp); >> >> (hopefully soon!) > > Thanks so much! This works! > > Actually I was trying to explicitly specify the type as in: > > let rdr: RefReader<PipeStream> = t.by_ref(); > > and was wondering why it failed. > > Regards, > > Michael _______________________________________________ Rust-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev
