pub enum Solution<I: Interner> {
    Unique(Canonical<ConstrainedSubst<I>>),
    Ambig(Guidance<I>),
}
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A (possible) solution for a proposed goal.

Variants

Unique(Canonical<ConstrainedSubst<I>>)

The goal indeed holds, and there is a unique value for all existential variables. In this case, we also record a set of lifetime constraints which must also hold for the goal to be valid.

Ambig(Guidance<I>)

The goal may be provable in multiple ways, but regardless we may have some guidance for type inference. In this case, we don’t return any lifetime constraints, since we have not “committed” to any particular solution yet.

Implementations

There are multiple candidate solutions, which may or may not agree on the values for existential variables; attempt to combine them. This operation does not depend on the order of its arguments.

This actually isn’t as precise as it could be, in two ways:

a. It might be that while there are multiple distinct candidates, they all agree about some things. To be maximally precise, we would compute the intersection of what they agree on. It’s not clear though that this is actually what we want Rust’s inference to do, and it’s certainly not what it does today.

b. There might also be an ambiguous candidate and a successful candidate, both with the same refined-goal. In that case, we could probably claim success, since if the conditions of the ambiguous candidate were met, we know the success would apply. Example: ?0: Clone yields ambiguous candidate Option<?0>: Clone and successful candidate Option<?0>: Clone.

But you get the idea.

View this solution purely in terms of type inference guidance

Extract a constrained substitution from this solution, even if ambiguous.

Determine whether this solution contains type information that must hold, and returns the subst in that case.

Trait Implementations

Returns a copy of the value. Read more

Performs copy-assignment from source. Read more

Formats the value using the given formatter. Read more

The interner associated with the type.

This method tests for self and other values to be equal, and is used by ==. Read more

This method tests for !=.

Auto Trait Implementations

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Mutably borrows from an owned value. Read more

Cast a value to type U using CastTo.

Compare self to key and return true if they are equal.

Returns the argument unchanged.

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Calls U::from(self).

That is, this conversion is whatever the implementation of From<T> for U chooses to do.

The resulting type after obtaining ownership.

Creates owned data from borrowed data, usually by cloning. Read more

Uses borrowed data to replace owned data, usually by cloning. Read more

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

Performs the conversion.

The type returned in the event of a conversion error.

Performs the conversion.

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