No checkin: overloaded-box
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This is a bootstrapping illustration of the new box prototype. The main point is to illustrate the fallout that occurs with the compiler type inference as it stands today.
(Notably, we do not infer
Box<_>
forbox <expr>
in the context of(box <expr> as Box<Trait>)
, and this weakness is a cause of a lot of the fallout below.)pnkfelix is trying to see if he can revise
vtable::check_object_cast
to remove the above limitation, which would let us revert a lot of the fallout below.see also rust-lang/rfcs#809 (which is not merged as of this writing).