// Copyright 2015 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT // file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at // http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT. // // Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 or the MIT license // , at your // option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed // except according to those terms. // Various unsuccessful attempts to put the unboxed closure kind // inference into an awkward position that might require fixed point // iteration (basically where inferring the kind of a closure `c` // would require knowing the kind of `c`). I currently believe this is // impossible. fn a() { // This case of recursion wouldn't even require fixed-point // iteration, but it still doesn't work. The weird structure with // the `Option` is to avoid giving any useful hints about the `Fn` // kind via the expected type. let mut factorial: Option u32>> = None; let f = |x: u32| -> u32 { let g = factorial.as_ref().unwrap(); //~^ ERROR `factorial` does not live long enough if x == 0 {1} else {x * g(x-1)} }; factorial = Some(Box::new(f)); } fn b() { let mut factorial: Option u32 + 'static>> = None; let f = |x: u32| -> u32 { //~^ ERROR closure may outlive the current function, but it borrows `factorial` let g = factorial.as_ref().unwrap(); if x == 0 {1} else {x * g(x-1)} }; factorial = Some(Box::new(f)); } fn main() { }