# nonzero_ext
## Traits to represent generic nonzero integer types
 [](https://docs.rs/nonzero_ext)
Rust ships with non-zero integer types now, which let programmers
promise (memory-savingly!) that a number can never be zero. That's
great, but sadly the standard library has not got a whole lot of
tools to help you use them ergonomically.
### A macro for non-zero constant literals
Creating and handling constant literals is neat, but the standard
library (and the rust parser at the moment) have no affordances to
easily create values of `num::NonZeroU*` types from constant
literals. This crate ships a `nonzero!` macro that lets you write
`nonzero!(20u32)`, which checks at compile time that the constant
being converted is non-zero, instead of the cumbersome (and
runtime-checked!) `NonZeroU32::new(20).unwrap()`.
### Traits for generic non-zeroness
The stdlib `num::NonZeroU*` types do not implement any common
traits (and neither do their zeroable equivalents). Where this
lack of traits in the standard library becomes problematic is if
you want to write a function that takes a vector of integers, and
that returns a vector of the corresponding non-zero integer types,
minus any elements that were zero in the original. You can write
that with the standard library quite easily for concrete types:
```rust
fn only_nonzeros(v: Vec<u8>) -> Vec<NonZeroU8>
{
v.into_iter()
.filter_map(|n| NonZeroU8::new(n))
.collect::<Vec<NonZeroU8>>()
}
let expected: Vec<NonZeroU8> = vec![nonzero!(20u8), nonzero!(5u8)];
assert_eq!(expected, only_nonzeros(vec![0, 20, 5]));
```
But what if you want to allow this function to work with any
integer type that has a corresponding non-zero type? This crate
can help:
```rust
fn only_nonzeros<I>(v: Vec<I>) -> Vec<I::NonZero>
where
I: Sized + NonZeroAble,
{
v.into_iter()
.filter_map(|n| n.as_nonzero())
.collect::<Vec<I::NonZero>>()
}
// It works for `u8`:
let input_u8: Vec<u8> = vec![0, 20, 5];
let expected_u8: Vec<NonZeroU8> = vec![nonzero!(20u8), nonzero!(5u8)];
assert_eq!(expected_u8, only_nonzeros(input_u8));
// And it works for `u32`:
let input_u32: Vec<u32> = vec![0, 20, 5];
let expected_u32: Vec<NonZeroU32> = vec![nonzero!(20u32), nonzero!(5u32)];
assert_eq!(expected_u32, only_nonzeros(input_u32));
```
License: Apache-2.0