Beef can implement const Deref?

[uselessgoddess]

In the case of Beef::borrowed can be implemented const Deref. Will it be done?

[CAD97]

impl const Trait is a long way from being stable, so this is probably a bit premature :)

[uselessgoddess]

Yes, I understand. But unstable rust is my love. I will wait

[maciejhirsz]

We already have const_fn feature which requires nightly, so if we can put this behind a feature flag (same or a new one) I'd be happy to accept a PR.

[uselessgoddess]

Check out my PR #49.
I believe it was possible to avoid code duplication.

[Caellian]

Any sort of access to underlying data is fine. I don't mind if it's incredibly convoluted, inconvenient and I have to wrap it in

std::str::from_utf8_unchecked(std::slice::from_raw_parts(cow.get_raw_ptr().as_ptr(), length))

I just need a const way to access the data, today, not in 5 or so years.

Currently can't even transmute the Cow into a pointer to access it in const context. I added this simple method in #56, as I don't want to use nightly over something as simple as this.