Use cases for const BTreeMap methods?

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With the stabilization of const methods new, len, and is_empty for BTreeMap in 1.66.0, I'm curious about the intended use cases when we can't directly populate a const BTreeMap at compile time.

  • Are there ways to populate a const BTreeMap I'm overlooking?
  • Are the current const methods primarily meant to work in conjunction with future language features?
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Not sure about the others, but const new is useful for putting a BTreeMap in a static:

static FOO: Mutex<BTreeMap<i32, String>> = Mutex::new(BTreeMap::new());

(since Rust doesn’t have runtime initializers for static variables).

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The proposed future feature for populating a BTreeMap at compile time is:

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