This PR introduces a `Reflect` marker trait which is a supertrait of `Any`. The idea is that `Reflect` is defined for all concrete types, but is not defined for type parameters unless there is a `T:Reflect` bound. This is intended to preserve the parametricity property. This allows the `Any` interface to be stabilized without committing us to unbounded reflection that is not easily detectable by the caller.
The implementation of `Reflect` relies on an experimental variant of OIBIT. This variant behaves differently for objects, since it requires that all types exposed as part of the object's *interface* are `Reflect`, but isn't concerned about other types that may be closed over. In other words, you don't have to write `Foo+Reflect` in order for `Foo: Reflect` to hold (where `Foo` is a trait).
Given that `Any` is slated to stabilization and hence that we are committed to some form of reflection, the goal of this PR is to leave our options open with respect to parametricity. I see the options for full stabilization as follows (I think an RFC would be an appropriate way to confirm whichever of these three routes we take):
1. We make `Reflect` a lang-item.
2. We stabilize some version of the OIBIT variation I implemented as a general mechanism that may be appropriate for other use cases.
3. We give up on preserving parametricity here and just have `impl<T> Reflect for T` instead. In that case, `Reflect` is a harmless but not especially useful trait going forward.
cc @aturon
cc @alexcrichton
cc @glaebhoerl (this is more-or-less your proposal, as I understood it)
cc @reem (this is more-or-less what we discussed on IRC at some point)
cc @FlaPer87 (vaguely pertains to OIBIT)
closes#23620
This PR patches the issue mentioned in #23620, but there is also an ICE for invalid escape sequences in byte literals. This is due to the fact that the `scan_byte` function returns ` token::intern("??") ` for invalid bytes, resulting in an ICE later on. Is there a reason for this behavior? Shouldn't `scan_byte` fail when it encounters an invalid byte?
And I noticed a small inconsistency in the documentation. According to the formal byte literal definition in http://doc.rust-lang.org/reference.html#byte-and-byte-string-literals , a byte string literal contains `string_body *`, but according to the text (and the behavior of the lexer) it should not accept unicode escape sequences. Hence it should be replaced by `byte_body *`. If this is valid, I can add this fix to this PR.
Replace zeroing-on-drop with filling-on-drop.
This is meant to set the stage for removing *all* zeroing and filling (on drop) in the future.
Note that the code is meant to be entirely abstract with respect to the particular values used for the drop flags: the final commit demonstrates how to go from zeroing-on-drop to filling-on-drop by changing the value of three constants (in two files).
See further discussion on the internals thread:
http://internals.rust-lang.org/t/attention-hackers-filling-drop/1715/11
[breaking-change] especially for structs / enums using `#[unsafe_no_drop_flag]`.
RFC pending, but this is the patch that does it.
Totally untested. Likely needs some removed imports. std::collections docs should also be updated to provide better examples.
Closes#23508
This PR adds support for associated types to the `#[derive(...)]` syntax extension. In order to do this, it switches over to using where predicates to apply the type constraints. So now this:
```rust
type Trait {
type Type;
}
#[derive(Clone)]
struct Foo<A> where A: Trait {
a: A,
b: <A as Trait>::Type,
}
```
Gets expended into this impl:
```rust
impl<A: Clone> Clone for Foo<A> where
A: Trait,
<A as Trait>::Type: Clone,
{
fn clone(&self) -> Foo<T> {
Foo {
a: self.a.clone(),
b: self.b.clone(),
}
}
}
```
Refactored code so that the drop-flag values for initialized
(`DTOR_NEEDED`) versus dropped (`DTOR_DONE`) are given explicit names.
Add `mem::dropped()` (which with `DTOR_DONE == 0` is semantically the
same as `mem::zeroed`, but the point is that it abstracts away from
the particular choice of value for `DTOR_DONE`).
Filling-drop needs to use something other than `ptr::read_and_zero`,
so I added such a function: `ptr::read_and_drop`. But, libraries
should not use it if they can otherwise avoid it.
Fixes to tests to accommodate filling-drop.
The compiler will now issue a warning for crates that have syntax of the form
`extern crate "foo" as bar`, but it will still continue to accept this syntax.
Additionally, the string `foo-bar` will match the crate name `foo_bar` to assist
in the transition period as well.
This patch will land hopefully in tandem with a Cargo patch that will start
translating all crate names to have underscores instead of hyphens.
cc #23533
The compiler will now issue a warning for crates that have syntax of the form
`extern crate "foo" as bar`, but it will still continue to accept this syntax.
Additionally, the string `foo-bar` will match the crate name `foo_bar` to assist
in the transition period as well.
This patch will land hopefully in tandem with a Cargo patch that will start
translating all crate names to have underscores instead of hyphens.
cc #23533
This permits all coercions to be performed in casts, but adds lints to warn in those cases.
Part of this patch moves cast checking to a later stage of type checking. We acquire obligations to check casts as part of type checking where we previously checked them. Once we have type checked a function or module, then we check any cast obligations which have been acquired. That means we have more type information available to check casts (this was crucial to making coercions work properly in place of some casts), but it means that casts cannot feed input into type inference.
[breaking change]
* Adds two new lints for trivial casts and trivial numeric casts, these are warn by default, but can cause errors if you build with warnings as errors. Previously, trivial numeric casts and casts to trait objects were allowed.
* The unused casts lint has gone.
* Interactions between casting and type inference have changed in subtle ways. Two ways this might manifest are:
- You may need to 'direct' casts more with extra type information, for example, in some cases where `foo as _ as T` succeeded, you may now need to specify the type for `_`
- Casts do not influence inference of integer types. E.g., the following used to type check:
```
let x = 42;
let y = &x as *const u32;
```
Because the cast would inform inference that `x` must have type `u32`. This no longer applies and the compiler will fallback to `i32` for `x` and thus there will be a type error in the cast. The solution is to add more type information:
```
let x: u32 = 42;
let y = &x as *const u32;
```
This is a [breaking-change]. When indexing a generic map (hashmap, etc) using the `[]` operator, it is now necessary to borrow explicitly, so change `map[key]` to `map[&key]` (consistent with the `get` routine). However, indexing of string-valued maps with constant strings can now be written `map["abc"]`.
r? @japaric
cc @aturon @Gankro
This commit:
* Introduces `std::convert`, providing an implementation of
RFC 529.
* Deprecates the `AsPath`, `AsOsStr`, and `IntoBytes` traits, all
in favor of the corresponding generic conversion traits.
Consequently, various IO APIs now take `AsRef<Path>` rather than
`AsPath`, and so on. Since the types provided by `std` implement both
traits, this should cause relatively little breakage.
* Deprecates many `from_foo` constructors in favor of `from`.
* Changes `PathBuf::new` to take no argument (creating an empty buffer,
as per convention). The previous behavior is now available as
`PathBuf::from`.
* De-stabilizes `IntoCow`. It's not clear whether we need this separate trait.
Closes#22751Closes#14433
[breaking-change]
I often have to run `ast-json` or look into the pretty-printer source to figure out what the fields of an AST enum mean. I've tried to document most of what I know (and some semi-obvious stuff).
r? @steveklabnik
f? @eddyb
Require braces when a closure has an explicit return type. This is a [breaking-change]: instead of a closure like `|| -> i32 22`, prefer `|| -> i32 { 22 }`.
Fixes#23420.
* no_split_stack was renamed to no_stack_check
* deriving was renamed to derive
* `use foo::mod` was renamed to `use foo::self`;
* legacy lifetime definitions in closures have been replaced with `for` syntax
* `fn foo() -> &A + B` has been deprecated for some time (needs parens)
* Obsolete `for Sized?` syntax
* Obsolete `Sized? Foo` syntax
* Obsolete `|T| -> U` syntax
I often have to run `ast-json` or look into the pretty-printer source to figure out what the fields of an AST enum mean. I've tried to document most of what I know (and some semi-obvious stuff).
r? @steveklabnik
f? @eddyb
This commit clarifies some of the unstable features in the `str` module by
moving them out of the blanket `core` and `collections` features.
The following methods were moved to the `str_char` feature which generally
encompasses decoding specific characters from a `str` and dealing with the
result. It is unclear if any of these methods need to be stabilized for 1.0 and
the most conservative route for now is to continue providing them but to leave
them as unstable under a more specific name.
* `is_char_boundary`
* `char_at`
* `char_range_at`
* `char_at_reverse`
* `char_range_at_reverse`
* `slice_shift_char`
The following methods were moved into the generic `unicode` feature as they are
specifically enabled by the `unicode` crate itself.
* `nfd_chars`
* `nfkd_chars`
* `nfc_chars`
* `graphemes`
* `grapheme_indices`
* `width`
