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Detect type parameters that were meant to be impl Trait in return position #78906

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estebank opened this issue Nov 9, 2020 · 1 comment
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A-diagnostics Area: Messages for errors, warnings, and lints A-impl-trait Area: `impl Trait`. Universally / existentially quantified anonymous types with static dispatch. A-suggestion-diagnostics Area: Suggestions generated by the compiler applied by `cargo fix` A-type-system Area: Type system D-newcomer-roadblock Diagnostics: Confusing error or lint; hard to understand for new users. T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.

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estebank commented Nov 9, 2020

Given fn foo<T: Any>() -> T { "" } the output is:

error[E0308]: mismatched types
 --> src/main.rs:3:5
  |
2 | fn foo<T: Any>() -> T {
  |        -            - expected `T` because of return type
  |        |
  |        this type parameter
3 |     ""
  |     ^^ expected type parameter `T`, found `&str`
  |
  = note: expected type parameter `T`
                  found reference `&'static str`

We should be suggesting the use of impl Trait while explaining that the callers of foo will only be able to access whatever the trait bounds allow: fn foo() -> impl Any { "" }. We should also likely add an additional note for the special case of an Any bound letting people know that it is very unlikely what they want to do.

(Taken from a subset of https://users.rust-lang.org/t/how-can-we-return-a-anonymous-type-in-result-trait/51258)

@estebank estebank added A-type-system Area: Type system A-diagnostics Area: Messages for errors, warnings, and lints T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue. A-impl-trait Area: `impl Trait`. Universally / existentially quantified anonymous types with static dispatch. A-suggestion-diagnostics Area: Suggestions generated by the compiler applied by `cargo fix` D-newcomer-roadblock Diagnostics: Confusing error or lint; hard to understand for new users. labels Nov 9, 2020
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estebank commented Jan 7, 2023

Fixed:

error[E0308]: mismatched types
 --> src/main.rs:3:5
  |
2 | fn foo<T: Any>() -> T {
  |        -            -
  |        |            |
  |        |            expected `T` because of return type
  |        |            help: consider using an impl return type: `impl Any`
  |        this type parameter
3 |     ""
  |     ^^ expected type parameter `T`, found `&str`
  |
  = note: expected type parameter `T`
                  found reference `&'static str`

@estebank estebank closed this as completed Jan 7, 2023
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A-diagnostics Area: Messages for errors, warnings, and lints A-impl-trait Area: `impl Trait`. Universally / existentially quantified anonymous types with static dispatch. A-suggestion-diagnostics Area: Suggestions generated by the compiler applied by `cargo fix` A-type-system Area: Type system D-newcomer-roadblock Diagnostics: Confusing error or lint; hard to understand for new users. T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue.
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