rust-analyzer/crates/hir_ty
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Merge #5971
5971: Implement async blocks r=flodiebold a=oxalica

Fix #4018

@flodiebold already gave a generic guide in the issue. Here's some concern about implementation detail:
- Chalk doesn't support generator type yet.
- Adding generator type as a brand new type (ctor) can be complex and need to *re-introduced* builtin impls. (Like how we implement closures before native closure support of chalk, which is already removed in #5401 )
- The output type of async block should be known after type inference of the whole body.
  - We cannot directly get the type from source like return-positon-impl-trait. But we still need to provide trait bounds when chalk asking for `opaque_ty_data`.
  - During the inference, the output type of async block can be temporary unknown and participate the later inference.
    `let a = async { None }; let _: i32 = a.await.unwrap();`

So in this PR, the type of async blocks is inferred as an opaque type parameterized by the `Future::Output` type it should be, like what we do with closure type.
And it really works now.

Well, I still have some questions:
- The bounds `AsyncBlockImplType<T>: Future<Output = T>` is currently generated in `opaque_ty_data`. I'm not sure if we should put this code here.
- Type of async block is now rendered as `impl Future<Output = OutputType>`. Do we need to special display to hint that it's a async block? Note that closure type has its special format, instead of `impl Fn(..) -> ..` or function type.



Co-authored-by: oxalica <oxalicc@pm.me>
2020-09-13 17:28:22 +00:00
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Cargo.toml Chalk 0.25 2020-09-02 14:07:06 -04:00