Before #78430, string literals worked because `specialize_constructor`
didn't actually care too much which constructor was passed to it unless
needed. Since then, string literals are special cased and a bit hacky. I
did not anticipate patterns for the `&str` type other than string
literals, hence this bug. This makes string literals less hacky.
If a symbol name can only be imported from one place for a type, and
as long as it was not glob-imported anywhere in the current crate, we
can trim its printed path and print only the name.
This has wide implications on error messages with types, for example,
shortening `std::vec::Vec` to just `Vec`, as long as there is no other
`Vec` importable anywhere.
This adds a new '-Z trim-diagnostic-paths=false' option to control this
feature.
On the good path, with no diagnosis printed, we should try to avoid
issuing this query, so we need to prevent trimmed_def_paths query on
several cases.
This change also relies on a previous commit that differentiates
between `Debug` and `Display` on various rustc types, where the latter
is trimmed and presented to the user and the former is not.
Previously, we threw away the `Span` associated with a definition's
identifier when we encoded crate metadata, causing us to lose location
and hygiene information.
We now store the identifier's `Span` in the crate metadata.
When we decode items from the metadata, we combine
the name and span back into an `Ident`.
This improves the output of several tests, which previously had messages
suppressed due to dummy spans.
This is a prerequisite for #68686, since throwing away a `Span` means
that we lose hygiene information.
This uses the exact same code path that would be used for
`match x { _ if false => {} }`, since in both cases the resulting matrix
is empty. Since we think the behaviour in that case is ok, then we can
remove the special case and use the default code path.
It is used in the case where a variable-length slice pattern is used to
match on an array of known size. This allows considering only those
entries in the array that are captured by one of the patterns.
As a side-effect, diagnostics improve a bit for those cases.
