rust-lang/rust — pull request #15493 by brson (2014-07-07 00:53:52+00:00)
Title: std: Rename the `ToStr` trait to `ToString`, and `to_str` to `to_string`

This updates https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/15075.

Rename `ToStr::to_str` to `ToString::to_string`. The naive renaming ends up with two `to_string` functions defined on strings in the prelude (the other defined via `collections::str::StrAllocating`). To remedy this I removed `StrAllocating::to_string`, making all conversions from `&str` to `String` go through `Show`. This has a measurable impact on the speed of this conversion, but the sense I get from others is that it's best to go ahead and unify `to_string` and address performance for all `to_string` conversions in `core::fmt`.

Note that the patch was done with a script, and ended up renaming a number of other `*_to_str` functions, particularly inside of rustc. All the ones I saw looked correct, and I didn't notice any additional API breakage.

Closes #15046.