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r: 30109
b: refs/heads/incoming
c: 77b8144
h: refs/heads/master
i:
  30107: 00c5652
v: v3

Author: pcwalton

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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ refs/heads/try: d324a424d8f84b1eb049b12cf34182bda91b0024
 refs/tags/release-0.1: 1f5c5126e96c79d22cb7862f75304136e204f105
 refs/heads/ndm: f3868061cd7988080c30d6d5bf352a5a5fe2460b
 refs/heads/try2: d0c6ce338884ee21843f4b40bf6bf18d222ce5df
-refs/heads/incoming: 62be878ed1715650f080c3b113a85f73e7af0973
+refs/heads/incoming: 77b8144295fdc19bf7700e3db9551fd190ecebcb
 refs/heads/dist-snap: 2f32a1581f522e524009138b33b1c7049ced668d
 refs/tags/release-0.2: c870d2dffb391e14efb05aa27898f1f6333a9596
 refs/tags/release-0.3: b5f0d0f648d9a6153664837026ba1be43d3e2503

branches/incoming/src/libcore/result.rs

@@ -26,6 +26,22 @@ pure fn get<T: copy, U>(res: result<T, U>) -> T {
     }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Get a reference to the value out of a successful result
+ *
+ * # Failure
+ *
+ * If the result is an error
+ */
+pure fn get_ref<T, U>(res: &a/result<T, U>) -> &a/T {
+    match *res {
+        ok(ref t) => t,
+        err(ref the_err) => unchecked {
+            fail fmt!("get_ref called on error result: %?", the_err)
+        }
+    }
+}
+
 /**
  * Get the value out of an error result
  *