The drop block has been deprecated for quite some time. This patch series removes support for parsing it and all the related machinery that made drop work.
As a side feature of all this, I also added the ability to annote fields in structs. This allows comments to be properly associated with an individual field. However, I didn't update `rustdoc` to integrate these comment blocks into the documentation it generates.
As discussed on issue #4819, I have created four new traits: `Algebraic`, `Trigonometric`, `Exponential` and `Hyperbolic`, and moved the appropriate methods into them from `Real`.
~~~rust
pub trait Algebraic {
fn pow(&self, n: Self) -> Self;
fn sqrt(&self) -> Self;
fn rsqrt(&self) -> Self;
fn cbrt(&self) -> Self;
fn hypot(&self, other: Self) -> Self;
}
pub trait Trigonometric {
fn sin(&self) -> Self;
fn cos(&self) -> Self;
fn tan(&self) -> Self;
fn asin(&self) -> Self;
fn acos(&self) -> Self;
fn atan(&self) -> Self;
fn atan2(&self, other: Self) -> Self;
}
pub trait Exponential {
fn exp(&self) -> Self;
fn exp2(&self) -> Self;
fn expm1(&self) -> Self;
fn log(&self) -> Self;
fn log2(&self) -> Self;
fn log10(&self) -> Self;
}
pub trait Hyperbolic: Exponential {
fn sinh(&self) -> Self;
fn cosh(&self) -> Self;
fn tanh(&self) -> Self;
}
~~~
There was some discussion over whether we should shorten the names, for example `Trig` and `Exp`. No abbreviations have been agreed on yet, but this could be considered in the future.
Additionally, `Integer::divisible_by` has been renamed to `Integer::is_multiple_of`.
After discussions on IRC and #4819, we have decided to revert this change. This is due to the traits expressing different ideas and because hyperbolic functions are not trivially implementable from exponential functions for floating-point types.
The Hyperbolic Functions are trivially implemented in terms of `exp`, so it's simpler to group them the Exponential trait. In the future these would have default implementations.
This is a temporary trait until we have default methods. We don't want to encumber all implementors of Ord by requiring them to implement these functions, but at the same time we want to be able to take advantage of the speed of the specific numeric functions (like the `fmin` and `fmax` intrinsics).
Having three traits for primitive ints/uints seemed rather excessive. If users wish to specify between them they can simply combine Int with either the Signed and Unsigned traits. For example: fn foo<T: Int + Signed>() { … }
'Natural' normally means 'positive integer' in mathematics. It is therefore strange to implement it on signed integer types. 'Integer' is probably a better choice.
This adds the following methods to ints and uints:
- div
- modulo
- div_mod
- quot_rem
- gcd
- lcm
- divisible_by
- is_even
- is_odd
I have not implemented Natural for BigInt and BigUInt because they're a little over my head.
The current protocol is very comparable to Python, where `.__iter__()` returns an iterator object which implements `.__next__()` and throws `StopIteration` on completion. `Option` is much cleaner than using a exceptions as a flow control hack though. It requires that the container is frozen so there's no worry about invalidating them.
Advantages over internal iterators, which are functions that are passed closures and directly implement the iteration protocol:
* Iteration is stateful, so you can interleave iteration over arbitrary containers. That's needed to implement algorithms like zip, merge, set union, set intersection, set difference and symmetric difference. I already used this internally in the `TreeMap` and `TreeSet` implementations, but regions and traits weren't solid enough to make it generic yet.
* They provide a universal, generic interface. The same trait is used for a forward/reverse iterator, an iterator over a range, etc. Internal iterators end up resulting in a trait for each possible way you could iterate.
* They can be composed with adaptors like `ZipIterator`, which also implement the same trait themselves.
The disadvantage is that they're a pain to write without support from the compiler for compiling something like `yield` to a state machine. :)
This can coexist alongside internal iterators since both can use the current `for` protocol. It's easier to write an internal iterator, but external ones are far more powerful/useful so they should probably be provided whenever possible by the standard library.
## Current issues
#5801 is somewhat annoying since explicit type hints are required.
I just wanted to get the essentials working well, so I haven't put much thought into making the naming concise (free functions vs. static `new` methods, etc.).
Making an `Iterable` trait seems like it will have to be a long-term goal, requiring type system extensions. At least without resorting to objects which would probably be unacceptably slow.
This restores the trait that was lost in 216e85fadf. It will eventually be broken up into a more fine-grained trait hierarchy in the future once a design can be agreed upon.
Kills some warnings, and implements str::each_char_reverse so that it actually iterates. The test case wasn't detecting a failure, since the loop body was never executed.
