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support higher-ranked types for chalk #49810

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nikomatsakis opened this issue Apr 9, 2018 · 2 comments
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support higher-ranked types for chalk #49810

nikomatsakis opened this issue Apr 9, 2018 · 2 comments
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A-traits Area: Trait system C-enhancement Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one. T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue. WG-traits Working group: Traits, https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-traits-working-group/6804

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nikomatsakis commented Apr 9, 2018

As discussed in the WG-traits planning meeting today, we need to decide how we will represent higher-ranked types in rustc. We decided to try for using debruijn indexing more universally, much as it is done in chalk. The plan is to generalize the existing CanonicalVar so that it represents a "bound" thing -- probably it just gets unified with DebruijnIndex. This will take a few steps, each of which I plan to describe in its own sub-issue:

@nikomatsakis nikomatsakis added A-traits Area: Trait system T-compiler Relevant to the compiler team, which will review and decide on the PR/issue. WG-traits Working group: Traits, https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/announcing-traits-working-group/6804 labels Apr 9, 2018
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cc @rust-lang/wg-traits

@jkordish jkordish added the C-enhancement Category: An issue proposing an enhancement or a PR with one. label May 16, 2018
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scalexm commented Nov 25, 2018

I believe this can be closed, in light of #55330, #55649 and #55921.

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