Make Rust Closure Types Namable

This crate provides some types and macros that can create closures which type is namable.

Update

2018-07-25 v0.2.2 Add Recursion support (experimential)

Usage

To use, as usual,

#[macro_use] extern crate namable_closures;
use namable_closures::Closure;
fn main() {
    let add_ten:Closure<i32,(i32,),i32> = closure!(state=10 => move |i| i+*state);
    println!("{}",add_ten.stable_call_once(1)); //11
}

There are 5 variants of the types, each of them have 3 type variables. The State variable correspond to the captured environment of a closure. The Input must be a unit or tuple type, correspond to the arguments of the closure. The Output is the return type of the closure.

In additional to letting you name the closure type, the function body cannot capture any variable by default, so all captures must be explicit.

DO NOT USE Closure or ClosureMut unless you know what you are doing

In most cases you will need the move keyword, this will let your closure own the state. If you don't need to own the state, make sure your state expression represents a &T (for Closures) or &mut T (for ClosureMut) types.

Nightly only features

A shadow set of traits was defined to use before fn_traits and unboxed_closures features being stablized. Use of them is a bit ugly:

let myclosure:Closure<i32,(),i32> = closure!(s=&0 => || *s);
fn1_expect_closure(||myclosure.stable_call());
let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i| i);
fn2_expect_closure(|i|myclosure.stable_call((i,)));
let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,i32),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i,j| i+j);
fn3_expect_closure(|i,j|myclosure.stable_call((i,j)));

If you don't mind having to compile in nightly Rust, you can add the following to cargo.toml:

[dependencies.namable_closures]
features = ["nightly"]

Now you can write the following:

let myclosure:Closure<i32,(),i32> = closure!(s=&0 => || *s);
fn1_expect_closure(||myclosure());
let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i| i);
fn2_expect_closure(|i|myclosure(i));
let myclosure:ClosureRef<(),(i32,i32),i32> = closure!(s=&() => |i,j| i+j);
fn3_expect_closure(myclosure);