From<UnderlyingType> and TryFrom<UnderlyingType>

[hecatia-elegua]

Writing some_num.try_into()? can be useful, I noted this somewhere and forgot about it, so I don't have a direct usecase.
Most likely macro generated code would need less typing and casting?

Oh right, it could replace try_new, too.
That's actually the point. The ux crate does that as well and it keeps the interface clean.
From<UnderlyingType> would replace new then.
Of course this would need deprecation notes or if that's too extreme we can use feature gates here again (I hope not)

[danlehmann]

The reason I avoided this for now is because then it's no longer const.

But TryFrom would be possible to add on top of try_new(). The downside then is that you have multiple ways of doing the same thing

[hecatia-elegua]

TryFrom can be used generically, which is a different thing.

Another argument for not providing it would be that users should be nudged in the right direction and since it's not const yet, I agree that we should not provide it unless a usecase crops up.

Edit: less writing for stuff like this maybe:

// generated by macro
const fn set_field3<T: TryInto<u4>>(&mut self, value: T) {
    let field3 = value.try_into().expect("value is not convertible to u4");
    //...
}
lalala.set_field3(6); //maybe 6u8
lalala.set_field3(u2::new(6));