Previously, on a type mismatch (and if this wasn't preëmpted by a
higher-priority suggestion), we would look for argumentless methods
returning the expected type, and list them in a `help` note.
This had two major shortcomings. Firstly, a lot of the suggestions didn't
really make sense (if you used a &str where a String was expected,
`.to_ascii_uppercase()` is probably not the solution you were hoping
for). Secondly, we weren't generating suggestions from the most useful
traits!
We address the first problem with an internal
`#[rustc_conversion_suggestion]` attribute meant to mark methods that keep
the "same value" in the relevant sense, just converting the type. We
address the second problem by making `FnCtxt.probe_for_return_type` pass
the `ProbeScope::AllTraits` to `probe_op`: this would seem to be safe
because grep reveals no other callers of `probe_for_return_type`.
Also, structured suggestions are preferred (because they're pretty, but
also for RLS and friends).
Also also, we make the E0055 autoderef recursion limit error use the
one-time-diagnostics set, because we can potentially hit the limit a lot
during probing. (Without this,
test/ui/did_you_mean/recursion_limit_deref.rs would report "aborting due to
51 errors").
Unfortunately, the trait probing is still not all one would hope for: at a
minimum, we don't know how to rule out `into()` in cases where it wouldn't
actually work, and we don't know how to rule in `.to_owned()` where it
would. Issues #46459 and #46460 have been filed and are ref'd in a FIXME.
This is hoped to resolve#42929, #44672, and #45777.
move closure kind, signature into `ClosureSubsts`
Instead of using side-tables, store the closure-kind and signature in the substitutions themselves. This has two key effects:
- It means that the closure's type changes as inference finds out more things, which is very nice.
- As a result, it avoids the need for the `freshen_closure_like` code (though we still use it for generators).
- It avoids cyclic closures calls.
- These were never meant to be supported, precisely because they make a lot of the fancy inference that we do much more complicated. However, due to an oversight, it was previously possible -- if challenging -- to create a setup where a closure *directly* called itself (see e.g. #21410).
We have to see what the effect of this change is, though. Needs a crater run. Marking as [WIP] until that has been assessed.
r? @arielb1
Make the suggestion list have a correct padding:
```
error[E0308]: mismatched types
--> file.rs:3:20
|
3 | let x: usize = "";
| ^^ expected usize, found reference
|
= note: expected type `usize`
= note: found type `&'static str`
= help: here are some functions which might fulfill your needs:
- .len()
- .foo()
- .bar()
```
