Sonic Spin
Declares a macro that turns the ::() postfix operator into a general postfix operator.
Mostly by re-defining structures from the syn for parsing.
Example
use sonic_spin;
sonic_spin!
See tests/ for further examples.
Motivation
Given some of the many discussions regarding the await syntax and the resulting possibility of general postfix operators, this crate explores such possibility with the "sonic-spin" operator (::()).
If the await syntax turned out to be "prefix await" await expr, then this crate would enable the syntax expr::(await) similarly to the ? postfix operator.
Some of the mentioned discussions:
- https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/idea-universal-pipelining-a-k-a-making-await-generic/9973
- https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2442
Further work
- Explore if/how postfix macros could work.
- Test with the await case (even if it's already a postfix operator).
- Explore auto bracing addition.
Pipe operations
For piped operations, see the tests/common.rs::Pipe trait and it's usage in tests/if.rs::if_pipe function. ie. sonic-spin is not required for such operations.
Notes
This is a draft and is based on this suggestion:
https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2698