From 2f9c0114fa0b0d3b018b37dcfd0eafaf01d6c48a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erick Tryzelaar <erick.tryzelaar@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2012 21:30:09 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add a to_bytes iface and a handful of impls

---
 src/libcore/to_bytes.rs | 19 +++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 src/libcore/to_bytes.rs

diff --git a/src/libcore/to_bytes.rs b/src/libcore/to_bytes.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4bfd16344cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/libcore/to_bytes.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+iface to_bytes {
+    fn to_bytes() -> ~[u8];
+}
+
+impl of to_bytes for ~[u8] {
+    fn to_bytes() -> ~[u8] { copy self }
+}
+
+impl of to_bytes for @~[u8] {
+    fn to_bytes() -> ~[u8] { copy *self }
+}
+
+impl of to_bytes for str {
+    fn to_bytes() -> ~[u8] { str::bytes(self) }
+}
+
+impl of to_bytes for @str {
+    fn to_bytes() -> ~[u8] { str::bytes(*self) }
+}