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Pre-RFC: Unsafe traits conditionally depending on safe trait behaviour

Rust Internals [Unofficial] May 27, 2026
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Conceptually, at least, it does seem like it'd be nice to have something like this.

For example, TrustedLen wants to also put a requirement that ExactSizeIterator::len can't be garbage, but there's nothing on that trait impl (nor the len method) itself that acknowledges that.


Spitballing, this seems awkward:

nia-e:

#[unsafe(has_preconditions(Allocator))]
trait Clone {}

because Clone is in core so if something that's not core -- such as external crates, if this wanted to become a "real" feature -- then they can't put something on Clone.

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