rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy

New lint: Prefer mem::take over Vec::split_off(0)

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Description

let mut vec = vec![1,2,3];
let vec2 = vec.split_off(0);

Should be written as

let vec2  = std::mem::take(&mut vec);

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