This changes the docs referring to where a user should be wary of depending on "Any" trait impls from warning about relying on them "outside" of their code to warning about relying on them "inside" of their code.
Add PartialOrd, Ord derivations to TypeId
I want to be able to sort a `Vec` of types which contain `TypeId`s, so an `Ord` derivation would be very useful to me. `Hash` and `PartialEq`/`Eq` already exist, so the missing `PartialOrd` and `Ord` derivations feel like an oversight to me.
I want to be able to sort a `Vec` of types which contain `TypeId`s, so an `Ord` derivation would be very useful to me. `Hash` already exists, so the missing `PartialOrd` and `Ord` derivations feel like an oversight to me.
A few categories:
* Links into compiler docs were just all removed as we're not generating
compiler docs.
* Move up one more level to forcibly go to std docs to fix inlined documentation
across the facade crates.
This is a bit weird since unsized types can't be used in trait objects,
but Any is *also* used as pure marker trait since Reflect isn't stable.
There are many cases (e.g. TypeMap) where all you need is a TypeId.
The replacements are functions that usually use a single `mem::transmute` in
their body and restrict input and output via more concrete types than `T` and
`U`. Worth noting are the `transmute` functions for slices and the `from_utf8*`
family for mutable slices. Additionally, `mem::transmute` was often used for
casting raw pointers, when you can already cast raw pointers just fine with
`as`.
This commit shards the broad `core` feature of the libcore library into finer
grained features. This split groups together similar APIs and enables tracking
each API separately, giving a better sense of where each feature is within the
stabilization process.
A few minor APIs were deprecated along the way:
* Iterator::reverse_in_place
* marker::NoCopy
This commit brings the `Error` trait in line with the [Error interoperation
RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/201) by adding downcasting,
which has long been intended. This change means that for any `Error`
trait objects that are `'static`, you can downcast to concrete error
types.
To make this work, it is necessary for `Error` to inherit from
`Reflect` (which is currently used to mark concrete types as "permitted
for reflection, aka downcasting"). This is a breaking change: it means
that impls like
```rust
impl<T> Error for MyErrorType<T> { ... }
```
must change to something like
```rust
impl<T: Reflect> Error for MyErrorType<T> { ... }
```
except that `Reflect` is currently unstable (and should remain so for
the time being). For now, code can instead bound by `Any`:
```rust
impl<T: Any> Error for MyErrorType<T> { ... }
```
which *is* stable and has `Reflect` as a super trait. The downside is
that this imposes a `'static` constraint, but that only
constrains *when* `Error` is implemented -- it does not actually
constrain the types that can implement `Error`.
[breaking-change]
This commit stabilizes the following APIs:
* `TypeId::of` - now that it has an `Any` bound it's ready to be stable.
* `Box<Any>::downcast` - now that an inherent impl on `Box<Any>` as well as
`Box<Any+Send>` is allowed the `BoxAny` trait is removed in favor of these
inherent methods.
This is a breaking change due to the removal of the `BoxAny` trait, but
consumers can simply remove imports to fix crates.
[breaking-change]
This upcast coercion currently preserves the vtable for the object, but
eventually it can be used to create a derived vtable. The upcast
coercion is not introduced into method dispatch; see comment on #18737
for information about why. Fixes#18737.
