This pull request implements the functionality for [RFC 873](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0873-type-macros.md). This is currently just an update of @freebroccolo's branch from January, the corresponding commits are linked in each commit message.
@nikomatsakis and I had talked about updating the macro language to support a lifetime fragment specifier, and it is possible to do that work on this branch as well. If so we can (collectively) talk about it next week during the pre-RustCamp work week.
This improves diagnostic messages when \u escape is used incorrectly and { is
missing. Instead of saying “unknown character escape: u”, it will now report
that unicode escape sequence is incomplete and suggest what the correct syntax
is.
Most of these are old, but some specific messages for specific tests:
* trait-contravariant-self.rs: failed due to a soundess hole:
05e3248a79
* process-detatch: 15966c3c1f
says "this test is being ignored until signals are implemented" That's
not happening for a long time, and when it is, we'll write tests for
it.
* deep-vector{,2}.rs: "too big for our poor macro infrastructure", and has
been ignored over a year.
* borrowck-nested-calls.rs's FIXME #6268 was closed in favor of
rust-lang/rfcs#811
* issue-15167.rs works properly now
* issue-9737.rs works properly now
* match-var-hygiene.rs works properly now
Addresses a chunk of #3965
Closes#17841.
The majority of the work should be done, e.g. trait and inherent impls, different forms of UFCS syntax, defaults, and cross-crate usage. It's probably enough to replace the constants in `f32`, `i8`, and so on, or close to good enough.
There is still some significant functionality missing from this commit:
- ~~Associated consts can't be used in match patterns at all. This is simply because I haven't updated the relevant bits in the parser or `resolve`, but it's *probably* not hard to get working.~~
- Since you can't select an impl for trait-associated consts until partway through type-checking, there are some problems with code that assumes that you can check constants earlier. Associated consts that are not in inherent impls cause ICEs if you try to use them in array sizes or match ranges. For similar reasons, `check_static_recursion` doesn't check them properly, so the stack goes ka-blooey if you use an associated constant that's recursively defined. That's a bit trickier to solve; I'm not entirely sure what the best approach is yet.
- Dealing with consts associated with type parameters will raise some new issues (e.g. if you have a `T: Int` type parameter and want to use `<T>::ZERO`). See rust-lang/rfcs#865.
- ~~Unused associated consts don't seem to trigger the `dead_code` lint when they should. Probably easy to fix.~~
Also, this is the first time I've been spelunking in rustc to such a large extent, so I've probably done some silly things in a couple of places.
This PR uses the inline error suggestions introduced in #24242 to modify a few existing `help` messages. The new errors look like this:
foobar.rs:5:12: 5:25 error: expected a path on the left-hand side of `+`,
not `&'static Copy` [E0178]
foobar.rs:5 let x: &'static Copy + 'static;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
foobar.rs:5:12: 5:35 help: try adding parentheses (per RFC 438):
foobar.rs: let x: &'static (Copy + 'static);
foobar.rs:2:13: 2:23 error: cast to unsized type: `&_` as `core::marker::Copy`
foobar.rs:2 let x = &1 as Copy;
^~~~~~~~~~
foobar.rs:2:19: 2:23 help: try casting to a reference instead:
foobar.rs: let x = &1 as &Copy;
foobar.rs:7:24: 7:25 error: expected expression, found `;`
foobar.rs:7 let x = box (1 + 1);
^
foobar.rs:7:13: 7:16 help: try using `box()` instead:
foobar.rs: let x = box() (1 + 1);
This also modifies compiletest to give the ability to directly test suggestions given by error messages.
PR #24242 added the ability to the compiler to directly give suggestions about
how to modify code to fix an error. The new errors look like this:
foobar.rs:5:12: 5:25 error: expected a path on the left-hand side of `+`,
not `&'static Copy` [E0178]
foobar.rs:5 let x: &'static Copy + 'static;
^~~~~~~~~~~~~
foobar.rs:5:12: 5:35 help: try adding parentheses (per RFC 438):
foobar.rs: let x: &'static (Copy + 'static);
foobar.rs:2:13: 2:23 error: cast to unsized type: `&_` as `core::marker::Copy`
foobar.rs:2 let x = &1 as Copy;
^~~~~~~~~~
foobar.rs:2:19: 2:23 help: try casting to a reference instead:
foobar.rs: let x = &1 as &Copy;
foobar.rs:7:24: 7:25 error: expected expression, found `;`
foobar.rs:7 let x = box (1 + 1);
^
foobar.rs:7:13: 7:16 help: try using `box()` instead:
foobar.rs: let x = box() (1 + 1);
This also modifies compiletest to give the ability to directly test suggestions
given by error messages.
Previously 0b12 was considered two tokens, 0b1 and 2, as 2 isn't a valid
base 2 digit. This patch changes that to collapse them into one (and
makes `0b12` etc. an error: 2 isn't a valid base 2 digit).
This may break some macro invocations of macros with `tt` (or syntax
extensions) that rely on adjacent digits being separate tokens and hence
is a
[breaking-change]
The fix is to separate the tokens, e.g. `0b12` -> `0b1 2`.
cc https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/879
The compiler will now issue a warning for crates that have syntax of the form
`extern crate "foo" as bar`, but it will still continue to accept this syntax.
Additionally, the string `foo-bar` will match the crate name `foo_bar` to assist
in the transition period as well.
This patch will land hopefully in tandem with a Cargo patch that will start
translating all crate names to have underscores instead of hyphens.
cc #23533
* no_split_stack was renamed to no_stack_check
* deriving was renamed to derive
* `use foo::mod` was renamed to `use foo::self`;
* legacy lifetime definitions in closures have been replaced with `for` syntax
* `fn foo() -> &A + B` has been deprecated for some time (needs parens)
* Obsolete `for Sized?` syntax
* Obsolete `Sized? Foo` syntax
* Obsolete `|T| -> U` syntax
The end result is that common fields (id, name, attributes, etc.) are stored in now-structures `ImplItem` and `TraitItem`.
The signature of a method is no longer duplicated between methods with a body (default/impl) and those without, they now share `MethodSig`.
This is also a [breaking-change] because of minor bugfixes and changes to syntax extensions:
* `pub fn` methods in a trait no longer parse - remove the `pub`, it has no meaning anymore
* `MacResult::make_methods` is now `make_impl_items` and the return type has changed accordingly
* `quote_method` is gone, because `P<ast::Method>` doesn't exist and it couldn't represent a full method anyways - could be replaced by `quote_impl_item`/`quote_trait_item` in the future, but I do hope we realize how silly that combinatorial macro expansion is and settle on a single `quote` macro + some type hints - or just no types at all (only token-trees)
r? @nikomatsakis This is necessary (hopefully also sufficient) for associated constants.
