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+Checked owned and borrowed strings.
+
+# Overview
+
+The Rust standard library provides the `String` and `str` types, which wrap
+`Vec<u8>` and `[u8]` respectively, with the invariant that the contents
+are valid UTF-8.
+
+This crate abstracts the idea of type-level invariants on strings by
+introducing the immutable `Check` and `Ck` types, where the invariants
+are determined by a generic `Invariant` type parameter. Implementing
+the `Invariant` trait is left to other crates, such as [`strck_ident`].
+
+"strck" comes from "str check", similar to how rustc has typeck and
+borrowck for type check and borrow check respectively.
+
+See [the documentation][docs-url] for more details.
+
+# Motivation
+
+Libraries working with string-like types with certain properties, like identifiers,
+quickly become confusing as `&str` and `String` begin to pollute type signatures
+everywhere. One solution is to manually implement an owned checked string type
+like `syn::Ident` to disambiguate the type signatures and validate the string.
+The downside is that new values cannot be created without allocation,
+which is unnecessary when only a borrowed version is required.
+
+`strck` solves this issue by providing a checked borrowed string type, `Ck`,
+alongside a checked owned string type, `Check`. These serve as thin wrappers
+around `str` and `String`[^1] respectively, and prove at the type level that
+the contents satisfy the `Invariant` that the wrapper is generic over.
+
+[^1]: `Check` can actually be backed by any `'static + AsRef<str>` type,
+but `String` is the default.
+
+# Use cases
+
+### Checked strings without allocating
+
+The main benefit `strck` offers is validating borrowed strings via the
+`Ck` type without having to allocate in the result.
+
+```rust
+use strck_ident::{Ck, IntoCk, rust::RustIdent};
+
+let this_ident: &Ck<RustIdent> = "this".ck().unwrap();
+```
+
+### Checked zero-copy deserialization
+
+When the `serde` feature flag is enabled, `Ck`s can be used to perform
+checked zero-copy deserialization, which requires the
+`#[serde(borrow)]` attribute.
+
+```rust
+use strck_ident::{Ck, unicode::UnicodeIdent};
+
+#[derive(Serialize, Deserialize)]
+struct Player<'a> {
+ #[serde(borrow)]
+ username: &'a Ck<UnicodeIdent>,
+ level: u32,
+}
+```
+
+Note that this code sample explicitly uses `Ck<UnicodeIdent>` to demonstrate
+that the type is a `Ck`. However, `strck_ident` provides `Ident` as an
+alias for `Ck<UnicodeIdent>`, which should be used in practice.
+
+
+### Infallible parsing
+
+For types where string validation is relatively cheap but parsing is costly
+and fallible, `strck` can be used with a custom `Invariant` as an input to
+make an infallible parsing function.
+
+# Postfix construction with `IntoCk` and `IntoCheck`
+
+This crate exposes two helper traits, `IntoCk` and `IntoCheck`. When in
+scope, the `.ck()` and `.check()` functions can be used to create
+`Ck`s and `Check`s respectively:
+
+```rust
+use strck_ident::{IntoCheck, IntoCk, unicode::UnicodeIdent};
+
+let this_ident = "this".ck::<UnicodeIdent>().unwrap();
+let this_foo_ident = format!("{}_foo", this_ident).check::<UnicodeIdent>().unwrap();
+```
+
+# Documentation
+
+See the [crate-level documentation][docs-url] for more details.
+
+[`strck_ident`]: https://docs.rs/strck_ident
+
+[github-url]: https://github.com/QnnOkabayashi/strck
+[crates-url]: https://crates.io/crates/strck
+[docs-url]: https://docs.rs/strck
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