Fallout from fixing Issue 25199.
There are two interesting kinds of breakage illustrated here:
1. `Box<Trait>` in many contexts is treated as `Box<Trait + 'static>`,
due to [RFC 599]. However, in a type like `&'a Box<Trait>`, the
`Box<Trait>` type will be expanded to `Box<Trait + 'a>`, again due
to [RFC 599]. This, combined with the fix to Issue 25199, leads to
a borrowck problem due the combination of this function signature
(in src/libstd/net/parser.rs):
```rust
fn read_or<T>(&mut self, parsers: &mut [Box<FnMut(&mut Parser) -> Option<T>>]) -> Option<T>;
```
with this call site (again in src/libstd/net/parser.rs):
```rust
fn read_ip_addr(&mut self) -> Option<IpAddr> {
let ipv4_addr = |p: &mut Parser| p.read_ipv4_addr().map(|v4| IpAddr::V4(v4));
let ipv6_addr = |p: &mut Parser| p.read_ipv6_addr().map(|v6| IpAddr::V6(v6));
self.read_or(&mut [Box::new(ipv4_addr), Box::new(ipv6_addr)])
}
```
yielding borrowck errors like:
```
parser.rs:265:27: 265:69 error: borrowed value does not live long enough
parser.rs:265 self.read_or(&mut [Box::new(ipv4_addr), Box::new(ipv6_addr)])
^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
(full log at: https://gist.github.com/pnkfelix/
e2e80f1a71580f5d3103 )
The issue here is perhaps subtle: the `parsers` argument is
inferred to be taking a slice of boxed objects with the implicit
lifetime bound attached to the `self` parameter to `read_or`.
Meanwhile, the fix to Issue 25199 (added in a forth-coming commit)
is forcing us to assume that each boxed object may have a
destructor that could refer to state of that lifetime, and
*therefore* that inferred lifetime is required to outlive the boxed
object itself.
In this case, the relevant boxed object here is not going to make
any such references; I believe it is just an artifact of how the
expression was built that it is not assigned type:
`Box<FnMut(&mut Parser) -> Option<T> + 'static>`.
(i.e., mucking with the expression is probably one way to fix this
problem).
But the other way to fix it, adopted here, is to change the
`read_or` method type to force make the (presumably-intended)
`'static` bound explicit on the boxed `FnMut` object.
(Note: this is still just the *first* example of breakage.)
2. In `macro_rules.rs`, the `TTMacroExpander` trait defines a method
with signature:
```rust
fn expand<'cx>(&self, cx: &'cx mut ExtCtxt, ...) -> Box<MacResult+'cx>;
```
taking a `&'cx mut ExtCtxt` as an argument and returning a
`Box<MacResult'cx>`.
The fix to Issue 25199 (added in aforementioned forth-coming
commit) assumes that a value of type `Box<MacResult+'cx>` may, in
its destructor, refer to a reference of lifetime `'cx`; thus the
`'cx` lifetime is forced to outlive the returned value.
Meanwhile, within `expand.rs`, the old code was doing:
```rust
match expander.expand(fld.cx, ...).make_pat() { ... => immutable borrow of fld.cx ... }
```
The problem is that the `'cx` lifetime, inferred for the
`expander.expand` call, has now been extended so that it has to
outlive the temporary R-value returned by `expanded.expand`. But
call is also reborrowing `fld.cx` *mutably*, which means that this
reborrow must end before any immutable borrow of `fld.cx`; but
there is one of those within the match body. (Note that the
temporary R-values for the input expression to `match` all live as
long as the whole `match` expression itself (see Issue #3511 and PR
#11585).
To address this, I moved the construction of the pat value into its
own `let`-statement, so that the `Box<MacResult>` will only live
for as long as the initializing expression for the `let`-statement,
and thus allow the subsequent immutable borrow within the `match`.
[RFC 599]: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/blob/master/text/0599-default-object-bound.md