Rollup merge of #56342 - killercup:collect-into-option-docs, r=bluss

Improve docs for collecting into `Option`s

Changes the original example to use more idiomatic formatting as well
as `.checked_add`. Also adds a second example to show a case where the
`.collect` returns `None`.
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Mazdak Farrokhzad 2018-12-23 23:09:00 +01:00 committed by GitHub
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@ -1253,20 +1253,42 @@ impl<A, V: FromIterator<A>> FromIterator<Option<A>> for Option<V> {
/// returned. Should no [`None`][Option::None] occur, a container with the
/// values of each [`Option`] is returned.
///
/// Here is an example which increments every integer in a vector,
/// checking for overflow:
/// # Examples
///
/// Here is an example which increments every integer in a vector.
/// `We use the checked variant of `add` that returns `None` when the
/// calculation would result in an overflow.
///
/// ```
/// use std::u16;
/// let items = vec![0_u16, 1, 2];
///
/// let v = vec![1, 2];
/// let res: Option<Vec<u16>> = v.iter().map(|&x: &u16|
/// if x == u16::MAX { None }
/// else { Some(x + 1) }
/// ).collect();
/// assert!(res == Some(vec![2, 3]));
/// let res: Option<Vec<u16>> = items
/// .iter()
/// .map(|x| x.checked_add(1))
/// .collect();
///
/// assert_eq!(res, Some(vec![1, 2, 3]));
/// ```
///
/// As you can see, this will return the expected, valid items.
///
/// Here is another example that tries to subtract one from another list
/// of integers, this time checking for underflow:
///
/// ```
/// let items = vec![2_u16, 1, 0];
///
/// let res: Option<Vec<u16>> = items
/// .iter()
/// .map(|x| x.checked_sub(1))
/// .collect();
///
/// assert_eq!(res, None);
/// ```
///
/// Since the last element is zero, it would underflow. Thus, the resulting
/// value is `None`.
///
/// [`Iterator`]: ../iter/trait.Iterator.html
#[inline]
fn from_iter<I: IntoIterator<Item=Option<A>>>(iter: I) -> Option<V> {