This updates the standard library's documentation to use the new syntax. The
documentation is worthwhile to update as it should be more idiomatic
(particularly for features like this, which are nice for users to get acquainted
with). The general codebase is likely more hassle than benefit to update: it'll
hurt git blame, and generally updates can be done by folks updating the code if
(and when) that makes things more readable with the new format.
A few places in the compiler and library code are updated (mostly just due to
already having been done when this commit was first authored).
Add `std::error::Report` type
This is a continuation of https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/90174, split into a separate PR since I cannot push to ```````@seanchen1991``````` 's fork
In commit 29403ee, documentation for the methods on `std::any::Any` was
modified so that they referred to the concrete value behind the trait
object as the "inner" value. This is a more accurate wording than
"boxed": while putting trait objects inside boxes is arguably the most
common use, they can also be placed behind other pointer types like
`&mut` or `std::sync::Arc`.
This commit does the same documentation changes for `std::error::Error`.
Previously suggested in https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/2854.
It makes sense to have this since `char` implements `From<u8>`. Likewise
`u32`, `u64`, and `u128` (since #79502) implement `From<char>`.
Using it through the crate-local path in `std` means that it shouldn't make an "Implementations on Foreign Types" section in the `std::error::Error` docs.
Add functions `Duration::try_from_secs_{f32, f64}`
These functions allow constructing a Duration from a floating point value that could be out of range without panicking.
Tracking issue: #83400
Implement Error for &(impl Error)
Opening this up just to see what it breaks. It's unfortunate that `&(impl Error)` doesn't actually implement `Error`. If this direct approach doesn't work out then I'll try something different, like an `Error::by_ref` method.
**EDIT:** This is a super low-priority experiment so feel free to cancel it for more important crater runs! 🙂
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# Stabilization Report
## Why?
We've been working for the last few years to try "fix" the `Error` trait, which is probably one of the most fundamental in the whole standard library. One of its issues is that we commonly expect you to work with abstract errors through `dyn Trait`, but references and smart pointers over `dyn Trait` don't actually implement the `Error` trait. If you have a `&dyn Error` or a `Box<dyn Error>` you simply can't pass it to a method that wants a `impl Error`.
## What does this do?
This stabilizes the following trait impl:
```rust
impl<'a, T: Error + ?Sized + 'static> Error for &'a T;
```
This means that `&dyn Error` will now satisfy a `impl Error` bound.
It doesn't do anything with `Box<dyn Error>` directly. We discussed how we could do `Box<dyn Error>` in the thread here (and elsewhere in the past), but it seems like we need something like lattice-based specialization or a sprinkling of snowflake compiler magic to make that work. Having said that, with this new impl you _can_ now get a `impl Error` from a `Box<dyn Error>` by dereferencing it.
## What breaks?
A crater run revealed a few crates broke with something like the following:
```rust
// where e: &'short &'long dyn Error
err.source()
```
previously we'd auto-deref that `&'short &'long dyn Error` to return a `Option<&'long dyn Error>` from `source`, but now will call directly on `&'short impl Error`, so will return a `Option<&'short dyn Error>`. The fix is to manually deref:
```rust
// where e: &'short &'long dyn Error
(*err).source()
```
In the recent Libs meeting we considered this acceptable breakage.
This impl was effectively stable. #[unstable] had no effect here,
since both Error and LayoutErr were already stable.
This effectively became stable as soon as LayoutErr became stable, which
was in 1.28.0.
