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When a user tries to use a method as if it returned a new value of the
same type as its receiver, we will emit a type error. Try to detect this
and provide extra explanation that the method modifies the receiver
in-place.

This has confused people in the wild, like in
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/newbie-why-the-commented-line-stops-the-snippet-from-compiling/47322

When a user tries to use a method as if it returned a new value of the
same type as its receiver, we will emit a type error. Try to detect this
and provide extra explanation that the method modifies the receiver
in-place.

This has confused people in the wild, like in
https://users.rust-lang.org/t/newbie-why-the-commented-line-stops-the-snippet-from-compiling/47322
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r? @petrochenkov

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If rustc_typeck had a diagnostics.rs, then I'd suggest to move it there, but unfortunately it doesn't.
@bors r+

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bors commented Aug 17, 2020

📌 Commit ac73474 has been approved by petrochenkov

@bors bors added S-waiting-on-bors Status: Waiting on bors to run and complete tests. Bors will change the label on completion. and removed S-waiting-on-review Status: Awaiting review from the assignee but also interested parties. labels Aug 17, 2020
bors added a commit to rust-lang-ci/rust that referenced this pull request Aug 18, 2020
Rollup of 8 pull requests

Successful merges:

 - rust-lang#75389 (attempt to improve span_label docs)
 - rust-lang#75392 (Add `as_uninit`-like methods to pointer types and unify documentation of `as_ref` methods)
 - rust-lang#75464 (Move to intra doc links for ascii.rs and panic.rs)
 - rust-lang#75578 (Allowing raw ptr dereference in const fn)
 - rust-lang#75613 (Add explanation for `&mut self` method call when expecting `-> Self`)
 - rust-lang#75626 (Clean up E0754 explanation)
 - rust-lang#75629 (Use intra-doc links in `std::env`, `std::alloc` and `std::error`)
 - rust-lang#75634 (Mark x86_64-linux-kernel as *)

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@bors bors merged commit 48da675 into rust-lang:master Aug 18, 2020
@estebank estebank deleted the explain-mut-method branch November 9, 2023 05:16
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