before this change, the parser would parse 14.a() as a method call, but
would parse 14.ø() as the floating-point number 14. followed by a function
call. This is because it was checking is_alpha, rather than ident_start,
and was therefore wrong with respect to unicode.
In principle, it seems like a nice idea to abstract over the two
functions that parse blocks (one with inner attrs allowed, one not).
However, the existing one wound up making things more complex than
just having two separate functions, especially after the obsolete
syntax is (will be) removed.
prec.rs no longer had much to do with precedence; the token->binop
function fits better in token.rs, and the one-liner defining the
precedence of 'as' can go next to the other precedence stuff in
ast_util.rs
Closes#3083.
This takes a similar approach to #5797 where a set is present on the `tcx` of used mutable definitions. Everything is by default warned about, and analyses must explicitly add mutable definitions to this set so they're not warned about.
Most of this was pretty straightforward, although there was one caveat that I ran into when implementing it. Apparently when the old modes are used (or maybe `legacy_modes`, I'm not sure) some different code paths are taken to cause spurious warnings to be issued which shouldn't be issued. I'm not really sure how modes even worked, so I was having a lot of trouble tracking this down. I figured that because they're a legacy thing that I'd just de-mode the compiler so that the warnings wouldn't be a problem anymore (or at least for the compiler).
Other than that, the entire compiler compiles without warnings of unused mutable variables. To prevent bad warnings, #5965 should be landed (which in turn is waiting on #5963) before landing this. I figured I'd stick it out for review anyway though.
This closes#4364. I came into rust after modes had begun to be phased out, so I'm not exactly sure what they all did. My strategy was basically to turn on the compilation warnings and then when everything compiles and passes all the tests it's all good.
In most cases, I just dropped the mode, but in others I converted things to use `&` pointers when otherwise a move would happen.
This depends on #5963. When running the tests, everything passed except for a few compile-fail tests. These tests leaked memory, causing the task to abort differently. By suppressing the ICE from #5963, no leaks happen and the tests all pass. I would have looked into where the leaks were coming from, but I wasn't sure where or how to debug them (I found `RUSTRT_TRACK_ALLOCATIONS`, but it wasn't all that useful).
This switches the unicode functions in core to use static character-range tables and a binary search helper rather than open-coded switch statements. It adds about 50k of read only data to the libcore binary but cuts out a similar amount of compiled IR. Would have done it this way in the first place but we didn't have structured statics for a long time.
