For the `hashes` crate we would like to make `hex` an optional
dependency. In preparation for doing so do the following:
- Remove the trait bounds from `GeneralHash`
- Split the hex/string stuff out of `impl_bytelike_traits` into a
separate macro.
The `impl_bytelike_traits` macro is public and it is used in the
`hash_newtype` macro, also public.
Currently if a user calls the `hash_newtype` macro in a crate that
depends on `hashes` without the `serde` feature enabled and with no
`serde` dependency everything works. However if the user then adds a
dependency that happens to enable the `serde` feature in `hashes` their
build will blow up because `serde` code will start getting called from
the original crate's call to `hash_newtype`.
Pull the serde stuff out of `hash_newtype` and provide a macro to
implement it `impl_serde_for_newtype`.
There is a range of different wordings used in the docs of constructor
type functions.
Change all to start with `Constructs a new` or `Constructs an empty`.
In functions that act like constructors there is a mixture of the usage
of `creates` and `constructs`.
Replace all occurrences of `creates` with `constructs` in the first line
of docs of constructor like functions.
This is a straight up move of the whole type because there are only
three methods, a getter, a setter, and `is_signalling_soft_fork`.
If we use an extension trait for `is_signalling_soft_fork` then we
have to make the two private associated consts public which is in my
opinion worse.