Implement lifetime-free ref and mut casts for unsized type #23
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The
TryCastMutLifetimeFree
andTryCastRefLifetimeFree
trait implementations have defaultSized
bound on theT
andU
generics, which prevents unsized types not defined as static from casiting.This PR adds
?Sized
bound toT
andU
generics inTryCastMutLifetimeFree
andTryCastRefLifetimeFree
trait implementation.For example this makes it possible to specialize slices without restricting the source slice item type to be static: