Tracking Issue for RFC 3606: Drop temporaries in tail expressions before local variables

[traviscross]

This is a tracking issue for the RFC 3606: Drop temporaries in tail expressions before local variables

• RFC: Drop temporaries in tail expressions before local variables rfcs#3606

The feature gate for the issue is #![feature(shorter_tail_lifetimes)].

About tracking issues

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Steps

• Accept RFC: RFC: Drop temporaries in tail expressions before local variables rfcs#3606
• Implement in nightly Rust 2024.
  • Place tail expression behind terminating scope #125293
• Crater run(s) to collect data for migration lints.
• Implement migration lints.
• Add documentation to the dev guide.
  • See the instructions.
• Add documentation to the reference.
  • See the instructions.
• Add documentation to the edition guide.
• Add formatting for new syntax to the style guide.
  • See the nightly style procedure.
• Ensure ready for Rust 2024 stabilization.

Unresolved Questions

• How uncommon are the situations where this change could affect existing code?
• How advanced should the edition lint and migration be?
• Can we make sure a lint catches the cases with unsafe code that could result in undefined behaviour?

Implementation history

TODO.

cc @nikomatsakis @m-ou-se

[dingxiangfei2009]

@rustbot claim

[pnkfelix]

(assigning self as lang team liason to ensure things progress here for 2024 edition)