mozilla/rust — pull request #5213 by erickt (2013-03-03 23:23:06+00:00)
Title: Change vec::{head,tail,init,last} to return references

This patch series changes a handful of vec functions to return references instead of copies. The one downside with making this change is that these functions aren't usable in a couple cases now due to some purity complaints. For example, this [change](https://github.com/erickt/rust/commit/c31e81a532fc07e89be33cadb5109d167aa725f4#L1R87). I couldn't figure out a way to get `last` to work on a `@mut ~[...]` type, so I ended up having to use `*crate_cache[crate_cache.len() - 1].metas`.