Merge #11870

11870: Recover from missing type annotation r=Veykril a=HKalbasi

We were missing the init expression in case of `let x: = 2`, which breaks type inference of that variable (previously x were `{unknown}`, now it is `i32`).


Co-authored-by: hkalbasi <hamidrezakalbasi@protonmail.com>

crates/hir_ty/src/tests/simple.rs

@@ -2556,6 +2556,20 @@ fn f() {
     )
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn infer_missing_type() {
+    check_types(
+        r#"
+struct S;
+
+fn f() {
+    let s: = S;
+      //^ S
+}
+    "#,
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn infer_type_alias_variant() {
     check_infer(

crates/parser/src/grammar/types.rs

@@ -57,6 +57,12 @@ fn type_with_bounds_cond(p: &mut Parser, allow_bounds: bool) {
 pub(super) fn ascription(p: &mut Parser) {
     assert!(p.at(T![:]));
     p.bump(T![:]);
+    if p.at(T![=]) {
+        // recover from `let x: = expr;`, `const X: = expr;` and similars
+        // hopefully no type starts with `=`
+        p.error("missing type");
+        return;
+    }
     type_(p);
 }