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Accept 0 as a valid str char boundary
Index 0 must be a valid char boundary (invariant of str that it contains valid UTF-8 data). If we check explicitly for index == 0, that removes the need to read the byte at index 0, so it avoids a trip to the string's memory, and it optimizes out the slicing index' bounds check whenever it is zero. With this change, the following examples all change from having a read of the byte at 0 and a branch to possibly panicing, to having the bounds checking optimized away. ```rust pub fn split(s: &str) -> (&str, &str) { s.split_at(0) } pub fn both(s: &str) -> &str { &s[0..s.len()] } pub fn first(s: &str) -> &str { &s[..0] } pub fn last(s: &str) -> &str { &s[0..] } ```
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