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r: 124102
b: refs/heads/master
c: 173baac
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: aochagavia

[refs]

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 05baf9b10c762dd65407ad13e8b1c72e614fd75e
+refs/heads/master: 173baac495485848335cf5ffd52fcd4d061d6d50
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
 refs/heads/snap-stage3: afbcbbc77ffc6b10053bc543daf7d2e05d68cc01
 refs/heads/try: 296eb104620b346d88bc4a2c2ab7693e6d3db019

trunk/src/libcollections/string.rs

@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ impl String {
             Err(vec)
         }
     }
-    
+
     /// Convert a vector of chars to a string
     ///
     /// # Example
@@ -137,6 +137,23 @@ impl String {
         buf
     }
 
+    /// Convert a byte to a UTF-8 string
+    ///
+    /// # Failure
+    ///
+    /// Fails if invalid UTF-8
+    ///
+    /// # Example
+    ///
+    /// ```rust
+    /// let string = String::from_byte(104);
+    /// assert_eq!(string.as_slice(), "h");
+    /// ```
+    pub fn from_byte(b: u8) -> String {
+        assert!(b < 128u8);
+        String::from_char(1, b as char)
+    }
+
     /// Pushes the given string onto this string buffer.
     #[inline]
     pub fn push_str(&mut self, string: &str) {

trunk/src/test/run-fail/glob-use-std.rs

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 use std::*;
 
 fn main() {
-    str::from_byte('a' as u8); // avoid an unused import message
+    String::from_byte(b'a'); // avoid an unused import message
 
     fail!("fail works")
 }