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[](https://crates.io/crates/generic-array)
[](https://travis-ci.org/fizyk20/generic-array)
# generic-array
This crate implements generic array types for Rust.
[Documentation](http://fizyk20.github.io/generic-array/generic_array/)
## Usage
The Rust arrays `[T; N]` are problematic in that they can't be used generically with respect to `N`, so for example this won't work:
```rust
struct Foo<N> {
data: [i32; N]
}
```
**generic-array** defines a new trait `ArrayLength<T>` and a struct `GenericArray<T, N: ArrayLength<T>>`, which let the above be implemented as:
```rust
struct Foo<N: ArrayLength<i32>> {
data: GenericArray<i32, N>
}
```
To actually define a type implementing `ArrayLength`, you can use unsigned integer types defined in [typenum](https://github.com/paholg/typenum) crate - for example, `GenericArray<T, U5>` would work almost like `[T; 5]` :)
In version 0.1.1 an `arr!` macro was introduced, allowing for creation of arrays as shown below:
```rust
let array = arr![u32; 1, 2, 3];
assert_eq!(array[2], 3);
```
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