Nit: improve comment to explain why we wait until regionck

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Niko Matsakis 2017-11-14 17:12:16 -05:00
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//! type-check the closure body (e.g., here it informs us that `T`
//! outlives the late-bound region `'a`).
//!
//! > That said, in writing this, I have come to wonder: this
//! inference dependency, I think, is only interesting for
//! late-bound regions in the closure -- if the region appears free
//! in the closure signature, then the relationship must be known to
//! the caller (here, `foo`), and hence could be verified earlier
//! up. Moreover, we infer late-bound regions quite early on right
//! now, i.e., only when the expected signature is known. So we
//! *may* be able to sidestep this. Regardless, once the NLL
//! transition is complete, this concern will be gone. -nmatsakis
//! Note that by delaying the gathering of implied bounds until all
//! inference information is known, we may find relationships between
//! bound regions and other regions in the environment. For example,
//! when we first check a closure like the one expected as argument
//! to `foo`:
//!
//! ```
//! fn foo<U, F: for<'a> FnMut(&'a U)>(_f: F) {}
//! ```
//!
//! the type of the closure's first argument would be `&'a ?U`. We
//! might later infer `?U` to something like `&'b u32`, which would
//! imply that `'b: 'a`.
use hir::def_id::DefId;
use infer::{self, GenericKind, InferCtxt, RegionObligation, SubregionOrigin, VerifyBound};