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Make TypeFolder::fold_* return Result #432

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LeSeulArtichaut opened this issue May 17, 2021 · 3 comments
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Make TypeFolder::fold_* return Result #432

LeSeulArtichaut opened this issue May 17, 2021 · 3 comments
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LeSeulArtichaut commented May 17, 2021

Proposal

Add a TypeFolder::Error associated type, and make all TypeFolder::fold_xxx methods return a Result<XXX, Self::Error>.
This gives more flexibility to implementors of the trait:

  • if they never fail, they can set Error = !
  • if they can fail, they have the choice of panicking, or propagate an Err, possibly holding a meaningful value

Implementation in rust-lang/rust#85469.

This is similar to #383, which added TypeVisitor::BreakTy.
This is also a part of the Traits WG's plan for a shared type library (cc rust-lang/types-team#16)

Example application

rust-lang/rust#85103: if we want to compute the layout of a type, we first need to normalize it, but normalization panics if it fails. One way to fix this is to make normalization, which uses TypeFolder, return a Result instead of panicking. This would be easy if this proposal was implemented.

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This issue is not meant to be used for technical discussion. There is a Zulip stream for that. Use this issue to leave procedural comments, such as volunteering to review, indicating that you second the proposal (or third, etc), or raising a concern that you would like to be addressed.

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apiraino commented Jun 3, 2021

@rustbot label -final-comment-period +major-change-accepted

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bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this issue Nov 28, 2021
Make `TypeFolder::fold_*` return `Result`

Implements rust-lang/compiler-team#432.

Initially this is just a rebase of `@LeSeulArtichaut's` work in rust-lang#85469 (abandoned; see rust-lang#85485 (comment)).  At that time, it caused a regression in performance that required some further exploration... with this rebased PR bors can hopefully report some perf analysis from which we can investigate further (if the regression is indeed still present).

r? `@jackh726` cc `@nikomatsakis`
bors added a commit to rust-lang/chalk that referenced this issue Nov 28, 2021
Introduce `Folder::Error`

Equivalent to rust-lang/rust#85469, cc rust-lang/compiler-team#432 rust-lang/types-team#16.

This compiles, but there are implementations of `Folder` that still use `Fallible<T>` instead of `Result<T, Self::Error>`. I can make that change if it is deemed beneficial.

r? `@jackh726`
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