Rollup merge of rust-lang#51306 - kennytm:impl-default-for-mut-str, r=SimonSapin

impl Default for &mut str

Rationale: There is already `impl Default for &mut [T]`.

Note: This impl is insta-stable.

Author: Mark-Simulacrum

src/liballoc/tests/str.rs

@@ -1326,6 +1326,7 @@ fn test_str_default() {
 
     t::<&str>();
     t::<String>();
+    t::<&mut str>();
 }
 
 #[test]

src/libcore/str/mod.rs

@@ -3875,6 +3875,12 @@ impl<'a> Default for &'a str {
     fn default() -> &'a str { "" }
 }
 
+#[stable(feature = "default_mut_str", since = "1.28.0")]
+impl<'a> Default for &'a mut str {
+    /// Creates an empty mutable str
+    fn default() -> &'a mut str { unsafe { from_utf8_unchecked_mut(&mut []) } }
+}
+
 /// An iterator over the non-whitespace substrings of a string,
 /// separated by any amount of whitespace.
 ///