Repeat iterator always returns the same element and behaves the same way
backwards and forwards. Take iterator can trivially implement backwards
iteration over Repeat inner iterator by simply doing forwards iteration.
DoubleEndedIterator is not currently implemented for Take<Repeat<T>>
because Repeat doesn’t implement ExactSizeIterator which is a required
bound on DEI implementation for Take.
Similarly, since Repeat is an infinite iterator which never stops, Take
can trivially know how many elements it’s going to return. This allows
implementing ExactSizeIterator on Take<Repeat<T>>.
While at it, observe that ExactSizeIterator can also be implemented for
Take<RepeatWhile<F>> so add that implementation too. Since in contrast
to Repeat, RepeatWhile doesn’t guarante to always return the same value,
DoubleEndedIterator isn’t implemented.
Those changes render core::iter::repeat_n somewhat redundant.
Issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/104434
Issue: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/104729
A successful advance is now signalled by returning `0` and other values now represent the remaining number
of steps that couldn't be advanced as opposed to the amount of steps that have been advanced during a partial advance_by.
This simplifies adapters a bit, replacing some `match`/`if` with arithmetic. Whether this is beneficial overall depends
on whether `advance_by` is mostly used as a building-block for other iterator methods and adapters or whether
we also see uses by users where `Result` might be more useful.
The `advance_by(n)` docs state that in the error case `Err(k)` that k is always less than n.
It also states that `advance_by(0)` may return `Err(0)` to indicate an exhausted iterator.
These statements are inconsistent.
Since only one implementation (Skip) actually made use of that I changed it to return Ok(()) in that case too.
While adding some tests I also found a bug in `Take::advance_back_by`.
