Module rustc::ty::fold

Unstable (rustc_private)

Generalized type folding mechanism. The setup is a bit convoluted but allows for convenient usage. Let T be an instance of some "foldable type" (one which implements TypeFoldable) and F be an instance of a "folder" (a type which implements TypeFolder). Then the setup is intended to be:

T.fold_with(F) --calls--> F.fold_T(T) --calls--> T.super_fold_with(F)

This way, when you define a new folder F, you can override fold_T() to customize the behavior, and invoke T.super_fold_with() to get the original behavior. Meanwhile, to actually fold something, you can just write T.fold_with(F), which is convenient. (Note that fold_with will also transparently handle things like a Vec<T> where T is foldable and so on.)

In this ideal setup, the only function that actually does anything is T.super_fold_with(), which traverses the type T. Moreover, T.super_fold_with() should only ever call T.fold_with().

In some cases, we follow a degenerate pattern where we do not have a fold_T method. Instead, T.fold_with traverses the structure directly. This is suboptimal because the behavior cannot be overridden, but it's much less work to implement. If you ever do need an override that doesn't exist, it's not hard to convert the degenerate pattern into the proper thing.

A TypeFoldable T can also be visited by a TypeVisitor V using similar setup: T.visit_with(V) --calls--> V.visit_T(T) --calls--> T.super_visit_with(V). These methods return true to indicate that the visitor has found what it is looking for and does not need to visit anything else.

Structs

BottomUpFolder	[Unstable]
RegionFolder	[Unstable] Folds over the substructure of a type, visiting its component types and all regions that occur free within it.

Traits

TypeFoldable	[Unstable] The TypeFoldable trait is implemented for every type that can be folded. Basically, every type that has a corresponding method in TypeFolder.
TypeFolder	[Unstable] The TypeFolder trait defines the actual folding. There is a method defined for every foldable type. Each of these has a default implementation that does an "identity" fold. Within each identity fold, it should invoke foo.fold_with(self) to fold each sub-item.
TypeVisitor	[Unstable]

Functions

shift_region	[Unstable]
shift_regions	[Unstable]