By reversing the arguments we achieve several clarifications:
- The function closely resembles `cast` but with an argument to
initialized the metadata. This is easier to teach and answers an long
outstanding question that had restricted cast to `Sized` targets
initially. See multiples reviews of
<https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/47631>
- The 'object identity', in the form or provenance, is now preserved
from the call receiver to the result. This helps explain the method as
a builder-style, instead of some kind of setter that would modify
something in-place. Ensuring that the result has the identity of the
`self` argument is also beneficial for an intuition of effects.
- An outstanding concern, 'Correct argument type', is avoided by not
committing to any specific argument type. This is consistent with cast
which does not require its receiver to be a raw address.
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