Feature gate: #![feature(str_as_str)]

This is a tracking issue for the as_str() method on the str type itself, so that Box<str>, Rc<str>, Arc<str> & others can have the same things as String has.

Public API

impl str {
    pub const fn as_str(&self) -> &Self;
}

Steps / History

• Implementation: Add str.as_str() for easy Deref to string slices #129550
• Final comment period (FCP)¹
• Stabilization PR

Unresolved Questions

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