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//! Freshening is used primarily to get a good type for inserting into a cache. The result
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//! Freshening is used primarily to get a good type for inserting into a cache. The result
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//! summarizes what the type inferencer knows "so far". The primary place it is used right now is
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//! summarizes what the type inferencer knows "so far". The primary place it is used right now is
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//! in the trait matching algorithm, which needs to be able to cache whether an `impl` self type
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//! in the trait matching algorithm, which needs to be able to cache whether an `impl` self type
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//! matches some other type X -- *without* affecting `X`. That means if that if the type `X` is in
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//! matches some other type X -- *without* affecting `X`. That means that if the type `X` is in
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//! fact an unbound type variable, we want the match to be regarded as ambiguous, because depending
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//! fact an unbound type variable, we want the match to be regarded as ambiguous, because depending
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//! on what type that type variable is ultimately assigned, the match may or may not succeed.
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//! on what type that type variable is ultimately assigned, the match may or may not succeed.
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//!
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//!
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//! Because of the manipulation required to handle closures, doing arbitrary operations on
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//! Because of the manipulation required to handle closures, doing arbitrary operations on
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//! freshened types is not recommended. However, in addition to doing equality/hash
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//! freshened types is not recommended. However, in addition to doing equality/hash
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//! comparisons (for caching), it is possible to do a `ty::_match` operation between
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//! comparisons (for caching), it is possible to do a `ty::_match` operation between
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//! 2 freshened types - this works even with the closure encoding.
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//! two freshened types - this works even with the closure encoding.
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//!
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//!
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//! __An important detail concerning regions.__ The freshener also replaces *all* free regions with
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//! __An important detail concerning regions.__ The freshener also replaces *all* free regions with
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//! 'erased. The reason behind this is that, in general, we do not take region relationships into
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//! 'erased. The reason behind this is that, in general, we do not take region relationships into
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