This patch supports the syntax
unchecked {
...
}
to disable purity checking within a block. Presumably it will only be
used within a declared "pure fn". However, there is no checking that it
doesn't occur elsewhere, and it would be harmless for it to do so.
I went with Lindsey's suggestion for the syntax, but it's subject to
change.
This allows you to write code that uses predicates that call arbitrary
Rust functions, but you must declare your intentions by wrapping it in
an unchecked { ... } block. The test case run-pass/unchecked-predicates.rs
demonstrates how to do that.
src/comp/syntax is currently just a sub-module of rustc, but it will,
in the near future, be its own crate. This includes:
- The AST data structure
- The parser
- The pretty-printer
- Visit, walk, and fold
- The syntax extension system
- Some utility stuff that should be in the stdlib*
*) Stdlib extensions currently require a snapshot before they can be
used, and the win build is very broken right now. This is temporary
and will be cleaned up when one of those problems goes away.
A lot of code was moved by this patch, mostly towards a more organized
layout. Some package paths did get longer, and I guess the new layout
will take some getting used to. Sorry about that!
Please try not to re-introduce any dependencies in syntax/ on any of
the other src/comp/ subdirs.
The parser needs to parse unconfigured items into the AST so that they can
make the round trip back through the pretty printer, but subsequent passes
shouldn't care about items not being translated. Running a fold pass after
parsing is the lowest-impact way to make this work. The performance seems
fine.
Issue #489
