Two changes:
- The first fixes an inconsistency in coherence whereby extension methods were added to the inherent methods table, but only in cross-crate scenarios. This causes some minor fallout in tests and so forth. In one case (comm) I added inherent and trait methods so as to avoid the need to import traits like `GenericPort` just to use a port.
- The second makes objects not implement the associated trait, as discussed in #5087.
r? @pcwalton
When parsing bytes from a wire, there is a need to parse floating-point bytes to float values ([u8*4] to f32, [u8*8] to f64). This can be done via cast::transmute, but there is no way to do it safely.
It's quite common, so I think I't better to support it in core library.
This patch series changes a handful of vec functions to return references instead of copies. The one downside with making this change is that these functions aren't usable in a couple cases now due to some purity complaints. For example, this [change](c31e81a532 (L1R87)). I couldn't figure out a way to get `last` to work on a `@mut ~[...]` type, so I ended up having to use `*crate_cache[crate_cache.len() - 1].metas`.
7.3x speedup in string map search speed on a microbenchmark of pure hashmap
searching against a constant string, due to the lack of allocations.
I ran into a few snags.
1. The way the coherence check is set up, I can't implement `Equiv<@str>` and
`Equiv<~str>` for `&str` simultaneously.
2. I wanted to implement `Equiv<T>` for all `T:Eq` (i.e. every type can be
compared to itself if it implements `Eq`), but the coherence check didn't
like that either.
3. I couldn't add this to the `Map` trait because `LinearMap` needs special
handling for its `Q` type parameter: it must not only implement `Equiv<T>`
but also `Hash` and `Eq`.
4. `find_equiv(&&"foo")` doesn't parse, because of the double ampersand. It has
to be written `find_equiv(& &"foo")`. We can probably just fix this.
Nevertheless, this is a huge win; it should address a major source of
performance problems, including the one here:
http://maniagnosis.crsr.net/2013/02/creating-letterpress-cheating-program.html
Macro invocations with path separators (e.g. foo::bar!()) now produce a sensible error message, rather than an assertion failure. Also added compile-fail test case.
Fixes#5218 ?
Update region inference for traits so that a method with explicit self doesn't incorrectly cause the entire trait to be tagged as being region-parameterized.
Fixes#5224.
r? @pcwalton
I've found that unused imports can often start cluttering a project after a long time, and it's very useful to keep them under control. I don't like how Go forces a compiler error by default and it can't be changed, but I certainly want to know about them so I think that a warn is a good default.
Now that the `unused_imports` lint option is a bit smarter, I think it's possible to change the default level to warn. This commit also removes all unused imports throughout the compiler and libraries (500+).
The only odd things that I ran into were that some `use` statements had to have `#[cfg(notest)]` or `#[cfg(test)]` based on where they were. The ones with `notest` were mostly in core for modules like `cmp` whereas `cfg(test)` was for tests that weren't part of a normal `mod test` module.
