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Improve error message when an operator is only implemented for references of a given type #66040
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If an operator (for example
std::ops::Sub) is only implemented for references of a given type and you try to subtract two instances of that type directly, the error message doesn't give a clue that an implementation for references exists.It would be nice if the error message said something like:
… or even suggested to try
&a - &binstead.I came across this when trying to subtract two
IndexSets (from theindexmapcrate). I saw in the documentation that there wasSubimplemented, but the compiler complained that subtracting was not possible. It took me a while to figure out that i had to add two&s.