crates/itertools/src/concat_impl.rs

/// Combine all an iterator's elements into one element by using [`Extend`].
///
/// [`IntoIterator`]-enabled version of [`Itertools::concat`](crate::Itertools::concat).
///
/// This combinator will extend the first item with each of the rest of the
/// items of the iterator. If the iterator is empty, the default value of
/// `I::Item` is returned.
///
/// ```rust
/// use itertools::concat;
///
/// let input = vec![vec![1], vec![2, 3], vec![4, 5, 6]];
/// assert_eq!(concat(input), vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]);
/// ```
pub fn concat<I>(iterable: I) -> I::Item
where
    I: IntoIterator,
    I::Item: Extend<<<I as IntoIterator>::Item as IntoIterator>::Item> + IntoIterator + Default,
{
    iterable
        .into_iter()
        .reduce(|mut a, b| {
            a.extend(b);
            a
        })
        .unwrap_or_default()
}