Add {ast,hir,thir}::PatKind::Missing variants.

"Missing" patterns are possible in bare fn types (`fn f(u32)`) and
similar places. Currently these are represented in the AST with
`ast::PatKind::Ident` with no `by_ref`, no `mut`, an empty ident, and no
sub-pattern. This flows through to `{hir,thir}::PatKind::Binding` for
HIR and THIR.

This is a bit nasty. It's very non-obvious, and easy to forget to check
for the exceptional empty identifier case.

This commit adds a new variant, `PatKind::Missing`, to do it properly.

The process I followed:
- Add a `Missing` variant to `{ast,hir,thir}::PatKind`.
- Chang `parse_param_general` to produce `ast::PatKind::Missing`
  instead of `ast::PatKind::Missing`.
- Look through `kw::Empty` occurrences to find functions where an
  existing empty ident check needs replacing with a `PatKind::Missing`
  check: `print_param`, `check_trait_item`, `is_named_param`.
- Add a `PatKind::Missing => unreachable!(),` arm to every exhaustive
  match identified by the compiler.
- Find which arms are actually reachable by running the test suite,
  changing them to something appropriate, usually by looking at what
  would happen to a `PatKind::Ident`/`PatKind::Binding` with no ref, no
  `mut`, an empty ident, and no subpattern.

Quite a few of the `unreachable!()` arms were never reached. This makes
sense because `PatKind::Missing` can't happen in every pattern, only
in places like bare fn tys and trait fn decls.

I also tried an alternative approach: modifying `ast::Param::pat` to
hold an `Option<P<Pat>>` instead of a `P<Pat>`, but that quickly turned
into a very large and painful change. Adding `PatKind::Missing` is much
easier.
This commit is contained in:
Nicholas Nethercote
2025-03-27 09:33:02 +11:00
parent 217693a1f0
commit 9f089e080c
40 changed files with 86 additions and 46 deletions

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@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ impl Pat {
/// This is intended for use by diagnostics.
pub fn to_ty(&self) -> Option<P<Ty>> {
let kind = match &self.kind {
PatKind::Missing => unreachable!(),
// In a type expression `_` is an inference variable.
PatKind::Wild => TyKind::Infer,
// An IDENT pattern with no binding mode would be valid as path to a type. E.g. `u32`.
@@ -625,7 +626,8 @@ impl Pat {
| PatKind::Guard(s, _) => s.walk(it),
// These patterns do not contain subpatterns, skip.
PatKind::Wild
PatKind::Missing
| PatKind::Wild
| PatKind::Rest
| PatKind::Never
| PatKind::Expr(_)
@@ -676,6 +678,7 @@ impl Pat {
/// Return a name suitable for diagnostics.
pub fn descr(&self) -> Option<String> {
match &self.kind {
PatKind::Missing => unreachable!(),
PatKind::Wild => Some("_".to_string()),
PatKind::Ident(BindingMode::NONE, ident, None) => Some(format!("{ident}")),
PatKind::Ref(pat, mutbl) => pat.descr().map(|d| format!("&{}{d}", mutbl.prefix_str())),
@@ -769,6 +772,9 @@ pub enum RangeSyntax {
// Adding a new variant? Please update `test_pat` in `tests/ui/macros/stringify.rs`.
#[derive(Clone, Encodable, Decodable, Debug)]
pub enum PatKind {
/// A missing pattern, e.g. for an anonymous param in a bare fn like `fn f(u32)`.
Missing,
/// Represents a wildcard pattern (`_`).
Wild,

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@@ -1572,7 +1572,7 @@ pub fn walk_pat<T: MutVisitor>(vis: &mut T, pat: &mut P<Pat>) {
vis.visit_id(id);
match kind {
PatKind::Err(_guar) => {}
PatKind::Wild | PatKind::Rest | PatKind::Never => {}
PatKind::Missing | PatKind::Wild | PatKind::Rest | PatKind::Never => {}
PatKind::Ident(_binding_mode, ident, sub) => {
vis.visit_ident(ident);
visit_opt(sub, |sub| vis.visit_pat(sub));

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@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ pub fn walk_pat<'a, V: Visitor<'a>>(visitor: &mut V, pattern: &'a Pat) -> V::Res
try_visit!(visitor.visit_pat(subpattern));
try_visit!(visitor.visit_expr(guard_condition));
}
PatKind::Wild | PatKind::Rest | PatKind::Never => {}
PatKind::Missing | PatKind::Wild | PatKind::Rest | PatKind::Never => {}
PatKind::Err(_guar) => {}
PatKind::Tuple(elems) | PatKind::Slice(elems) | PatKind::Or(elems) => {
walk_list!(visitor, visit_pat, elems);