These lints are valuable, lets get at em.
Changes are API breaking but because the changes make functions consume
self for types that are `Copy` downstream should not notice the breaks.
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.
We should pass `Copy` types by value not by reference.
Currently this is not done in secp, but lets do it here in bitcoin.
Pass by value:
- `SerializedSignature`
- bitcoin sigs
- secp sigs
- secp `Message`
Serializing the ecdsa and taproot `Signature` straight to a writer is a
useful thing to be able to do.
To both ECDSA and Taproot types:
- Add `SerializedSignature::to_writer`
- Add `Signature::serialize_to_writer`
Remove TODO comments from code.
Previously `taproot::Signature` could be only serialized into `Vec<u8>`
which forced allocation. This adds a `SerializedSignature` type which
acts like `Box<u8>` but is on stack.
Note: the code was copied from `secp256k1::ecdsa::serialized_signature`
with minimal changes.
Tobin C. Harding
Jamil Lambert, PhD
Thabokani
Fmt Bot
Martin Habovstiak