Enum rustc_trait_selection::traits::Reveal

pub enum Reveal {
    UserFacing,
    All,
}

Depending on the stage of compilation, we want projection to be more or less conservative.

Variants

UserFacing

At type-checking time, we refuse to project any associated type that is marked default. Non-default (“final”) types are always projected. This is necessary in general for soundness of specialization. However, we could allow projections in fully-monomorphic cases. We choose not to, because we prefer for default type to force the type definition to be treated abstractly by any consumers of the impl. Concretely, that means that the following example will fail to compile:

trait Assoc {
    type Output;
}

impl<T> Assoc for T {
    default type Output = bool;
}

fn main() {
    let <() as Assoc>::Output = true;
}

All

At codegen time, all monomorphic projections will succeed. Also, impl Trait is normalized to the concrete type, which has to be already collected by type-checking.

NOTE: as impl Trait’s concrete type should never be observable directly by the user, Reveal::All should not be used by checks which may expose type equality or type contents to the user. There are some exceptions, e.g., around auto traits and transmute-checking, which expose some details, but not the whole concrete type of the impl Trait.