There's been some debate over the precise form that these APIs should take, and
they've undergone some changes recently, so these APIs are going to be left
unstable for now to be fleshed out during the next release cycle.
fmt::Show is for debugging, and can and should be implemented for
all public types. This trait is used with `{:?}` syntax. There still
exists #[derive(Show)].
fmt::String is for types that faithfully be represented as a String.
Because of this, there is no way to derive fmt::String, all
implementations must be purposeful. It is used by the default format
syntax, `{}`.
This will break most instances of `{}`, since that now requires the type
to impl fmt::String. In most cases, replacing `{}` with `{:?}` is the
correct fix. Types that were being printed specifically for users should
receive a fmt::String implementation to fix this.
Part of #20013
[breaking-change]
Treat associated types the same as type parameters when it comes to region bounding. Fixes#20303.
Strictly speaking, this is a [breaking-change] (if you are using
associated types). You are no longer free to wantonly violate the type
system rules by closing associated types into objects without any form
of region bound. Instead you should add region bounds like `T::X :
'a`, just as you would with a normal type parameter.
r? @aturon
- the self type includes some local type; and,
- type parameters in the self type must be constrained by a local type.
A type parameter is called *constrained* if it appears in some type-parameter of a local type.
Here are some examples that are accepted. In all of these examples, I
assume that `Foo` is a trait defined in another crate. If `Foo` were
defined in the local crate, then all the examples would be legal.
- `impl Foo for LocalType`
- `impl<T> Foo<T> for LocalType` -- T does not appear in Self, so it is OK
- `impl<T> Foo<T> for LocalType<T>` -- T here is constrained by LocalType
- `impl<T> Foo<T> for (LocalType<T>, T)` -- T here is constrained by LocalType
Here are some illegal examples (again, these examples assume that
`Foo` is not local to the current crate):
- `impl Foo for int` -- the Self type is not local
- `impl<T> Foo for T` -- T appears in Self unconstrained by a local type
- `impl<T> Foo for (LocalType, T)` -- T appears in Self unconstrained by a local type
This is a [breaking-change]. For the time being, you can opt out of
the new rules by placing `#[old_orphan_check]` on the trait (and
enabling the feature gate where the trait is defined). Longer term,
you should restructure your traits to avoid the problem. Usually this
means changing the order of parameters so that the "central" type
parameter is in the `Self` position.
As an example of that refactoring, consider the `BorrowFrom` trait:
```rust
pub trait BorrowFrom<Sized? Owned> for Sized? {
fn borrow_from(owned: &Owned) -> &Self;
}
```
As defined, this trait is commonly implemented for custom pointer
types, such as `Arc`. Those impls follow the pattern:
```rust
impl<T> BorrowFrom<Arc<T>> for T {...}
```
Unfortunately, this impl is illegal because the self type `T` is not
local to the current crate. Therefore, we are going to change the order of the parameters,
so that `BorrowFrom` becomes `Borrow`:
```rust
pub trait Borrow<Sized? Borrowed> for Sized? {
fn borrow_from(owned: &Self) -> &Borrowed;
}
```
Now the `Arc` impl is written:
```rust
impl<T> Borrow<T> for Arc<T> { ... }
```
This impl is legal because the self type (`Arc<T>`) is local.
closes#20486closes#20474closes#20441
[breaking-change]
The `Index[Mut]` traits now have one less input parameter, as the return type of the indexing operation is an associated type. This breaks all existing implementations.
---
binop traits (`Add`, `Sub`, etc) now have an associated type for their return type. Also, the RHS input parameter now defaults to `Self` (except for the `Shl` and `Shr` traits). For example, the `Add` trait now looks like this:
``` rust
trait Add<Rhs=Self> {
type Output;
fn add(self, Rhs) -> Self::Output;
}
```
The `Neg` and `Not` traits now also have an associated type for their return type.
This breaks all existing implementations of these traits.
---
Affected traits:
- `Iterator { type Item }`
- `IteratorExt` no input/output types, uses `<Self as Iterator>::Item` in its methods
- `DoubleEndedIterator` no input/output types, uses `<Self as Iterator>::Item` in its methods
- `DoubleEndedIteratorExt` no input/output types, uses `<Self as Iterator>::Item` in its methods
- `RandomAccessIterator` no input/output types
- `ExactSizeIterator` no input/output types, uses `<Self as Iterator>::Item` in its methods
This breaks all the implementations of these traits.
`UnboxedClosureTyper`. This requires adding a `tcx` field to
`ParameterEnvironment` but generally simplifies everything since we
only need to pass along an `UnboxedClosureTyper` or `Typer`.
which should always result in an error.
NB. Some of the hunks in this commit rely on a later commit which adds
`tcx` into `param_env` and modifies `ParameterEnvironment` to
implement `Typer`.
check it more easily; also extend object safety to cover sized types
as well as static methods. This makes it sufficient so that we can
always ensure that `Foo : Foo` holds for any trait `Foo`.
