All uses have been removed. And it's nonsensical: an identifier by
definition has at least one char.
The commits adds an is-non-empty assertion to `Ident::new` to enforce
this, and converts some `Ident` constructions to use `Ident::new`.
Adding the assertion requires making `Ident::new` and
`Ident::with_dummy_span` non-const, which is no great loss.
The commit amends a couple of places that do path splitting to ensure no
empty identifiers are created.
An upcoming lint will want to be able to know if a lifetime is
hidden (e.g. `&u8`, `ContainsLifetime`) or anonymous: (e.g. `&'_ u8`,
`ContainsLifetime<'_>`). It will also want to know if the lifetime is
related to a reference (`&u8`) or a path (`ContainsLifetime`).
It's a much better name, more consistent with how we name such things.
Also rename `Lifetime::res` as `Lifetime::kind` to match. I suspect this
field used to have the type `LifetimeRes` and then the type was changed
but the field name remained the same.
`hir::Lifetime::ident` currently sometimes uses `kw::Empty` for elided
lifetimes and sometimes uses `kw::UnderscoreLifetime`, and the
distinction is used when creating some error suggestions, e.g. in
`Lifetime::suggestion` and `ImplicitLifetimeFinder::visit_ty`. I found
this *really* confusing, and it took me a while to understand what was
going on.
This commit replaces all uses of `kw::Empty` in `hir::Lifetime::ident`
with `kw::UnderscoreLifetime`. It adds a new field
`hir::Lifetime::is_path_anon` that mostly replaces the old
empty/underscore distinction and makes things much clearer.
Some other notable changes:
- Adds a big comment to `Lifetime` talking about permissable field
values.
- Adds some assertions in `new_named_lifetime` about what ident values
are permissible for the different `LifetimeRes` values.
- Adds a `Lifetime::new` constructor that does some checking to make
sure the `is_elided` and `is_anonymous` states are valid.
- `add_static_impl_trait_suggestion` now looks at `Lifetime::res`
instead of the ident when creating the suggestion. This is the one
case where `is_path_anon` doesn't replace the old empty/underscore
distinction.
- A couple of minor pretty-printing improvements.
