This is a work in progress, but this should get *extensive* review, so I'm putting it up early and often.
This is the start of a draft of the new 'ownership guide,' which explains ownership, borrowing, etc. I'm feeling better about this framing than last time's, but we'll see.
The "Returning Pointers" section of the pointers guide broke from the convention of putting code between backticks. This PR fixes that. There's also a little trailing whitespace I took care of.
The reason given didn't make any sense when I read it when reading through the docs. I think this is more clear. Please let me know it is also more correct.
This PR completes the removal of the runtime system and green-threaded abstractions as part of implementing [RFC 230](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/230).
Specifically:
* It removes the `Runtime` trait, welding the scheduling infrastructure directly to native threads.
* It removes `libgreen` and `libnative` entirely.
* It rewrites `sync::mutex` as a trivial layer on top of native mutexes. Eventually, the two modules will be merged.
* It hides the vast majority of `std::rt`.
This completes the basic task of removing the runtime system (I/O and scheduling) and components that depend on it.
After this lands, a follow-up PR will pull the `rustrt` crate back into `std`, turn `std::task` into `std::thread` (with API changes to go along with it), and completely cut out the remaining startup/teardown sequence. Other changes, including new [TLS](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/461) and synchronization are in the RFC or pre-RFC phase.
Closes#17325Closes#18687
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r? @alexcrichton
Futureproof Rust for fancier suffixed literals. The Rust compiler tokenises a literal followed immediately (no whitespace) by an identifier as a single token: (for example) the text sequences `"foo"bar`, `1baz` and `1u1024` are now a single token rather than the pairs `"foo"` `bar`, `1` `baz` and `1u` `1024` respectively.
The compiler rejects all such suffixes in the parser, except for the 12 numeric suffixes we have now.
I'm fairly sure this will affect very few programs, since it's not currently legal to have `<literal><identifier>` in a Rust program, except in a macro invocation. Any macro invocation relying on this behaviour can simply separate the two tokens with whitespace: `foo!("bar"baz)` becomes `foo!("bar" baz)`.
This implements [RFC 463](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0463-future-proof-literal-suffixes.md), and so closes https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/19088.
As-is, there's no indication that the code examples pop out into a window that runs on `play.rust-lang.org` until you mouse over them. I managed to get to section 4 of the guide before realizing you could do this since it didn't occur to me to mouse over the example text.
cc @rose since we went through the tutorial together and I think it wasn't obvious to her either.
Now that we've done `fail` -> `panic`, I feel bringing back the error handling guide is a good idea. We had one long ago, but it was removed when conditions were removed.
This doesn't cover the new FromError stuff, but I feel like it's already useful in this state, so I'm sending this PR now.
This breaks code that referred to variant names in the same namespace as
their enum. Reexport the variants in the old location or alter code to
refer to the new locations:
```
pub enum Foo {
A,
B
}
fn main() {
let a = A;
}
```
=>
```
pub use self::Foo::{A, B};
pub enum Foo {
A,
B
}
fn main() {
let a = A;
}
```
or
```
pub enum Foo {
A,
B
}
fn main() {
let a = Foo::A;
}
```
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