This is due to a [breaking-change] to operators. The primary affected
code is uses of the `Rng` trait where we used to (incorrectly) infer the
right-hand-side type from the left-hand-side, in the case that the LHS
type was a scalar like `i32`. The fix is to add a type annotation like
`x + rng.gen::<i32>()`.
The primary motivation here is to sidestep #19032 -- for a time, I thought that we should improve coherence or otherwise extend the language, but I now think that any such changes will require more time to bake. In the meantime, inheritance amongst the fn traits is both logically correct *and* a simple solution to that obstacle. This change introduces inheritance and modifies the compiler so that it can properly generate impls for closures and fns.
Things enabled by this PR (but not included in this PR):
1. An impl of `FnMut` for `&mut F` where `F : FnMut` (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/23015).
2. A better version of `Thunk` I've been calling `FnBox`.
I did not include either of these in the PR because:
1. Adding the impls in 1 currently induces a coherence conflict with the pattern trait. This is interesting and merits some discussion.
2. `FnBox` deserves to be a PR of its own.
The main downside to this design is (a) the need to write impls by hand; (b) the possibility of implementing `FnMut` with different semantics from `Fn`, etc. Point (a) is minor -- in particular, it does not affect normal closure usage -- and could be addressed in the future in many ways (better defaults; convenient macros; specialization; etc). Point (b) is unfortunate but "just a bug" from my POV, and certainly not unique to these traits (c.f. Copy/Clone, PartialEq/Eq, etc). (Until we lift the feature-gate on implementing the Fn traits, in any case, there is room to correct both of these if we find a nice way.)
Note that I believe this change is reversible in the future if we decide on another course of action, due to the feature gate on implementing the `Fn` traits, though I do not (currently) think we should reverse it.
Fixes#18835.
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impls. This is a [breaking-change] (for gated code) in that when you
implement `Fn` (`FnMut`) you must also implement `FnOnce`. This commit
demonstrates how to fix it.
The method with which backwards compatibility was retained ended up leading to
documentation that rustdoc didn't handle well and largely ended up confusing.
The method with which backwards compatibility was retained ended up leading to
documentation that rustdoc didn't handle well and largely ended up confusing.
This commit stabilizes the `cloned` iterator after tweaking the signature to
require that the iterator is over `&T` instead of `U: Deref<T>`. This method has
had time to bake for awhile now and it's not clear whether the `Deref` bound is
worth it. Additionally, there aren't clear conventions on when to bound and/or
implement the `Deref` trait, so for now the conservative route is to require
references instead of `U: Deref<T>`.
To change this signature to using `Deref` would technically be a
backwards-incompatible change, but it is doubtful that any code will actually
break in practice.
