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Currently the only exception to this is inferred generic arguments in path segments. In `Foo<_>` it is not clear whether the `_` argument is an
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inferred type argument, or an inferred const argument.
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In unambig positions, inferred arguments are represented with `hir::TyKind::Infer` or `hir::ConstArgKind::Infer` depending on whether it is a type or const position respectively.
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In unambig positions, inferred arguments are represented with [`hir::TyKind::Infer`][ty_infer] or [`hir::ConstArgKind::Infer`][const_infer] depending on whether it is a type or const position respectively.
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In ambig positions, inferred arguments are represented with `hir::GenericArg::Infer`.
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A naive implementation of this structure would result in there being potentially 5 places where an inferred type/const could be found in the HIR if you just looked at the types:
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- In unambig type position as a `hir::TyKind::Infer`
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- In unambig const arg position as a `hir::ConstArgKind::Infer`
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- In an ambig position as a `GenericArg::Ty(TyKind::Infer)`
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- In an ambig position as a `GenericArg::Const(ConstArgKind::Infer)`
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- In an ambig position as a `GenericArg::Infer`
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- In an ambig position as a [`GenericArg::Type(TyKind::Infer)`][generic_arg_ty]
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- In an ambig position as a [`GenericArg::Const(ConstArgKind::Infer)`][generic_arg_const]
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- In an ambig position as a [`GenericArg::Infer`][generic_arg_infer]
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This has a few failure modes:
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- People may write visitors which check for `GenericArg::Infer` but forget to check for `hir::TyKind/ConstArgKind::Infer`, only handling infers in ambig positions by accident.
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- People may write visitors which check for `hir::TyKind/ConstArgKind::Infer` but forget to check for `GenericArg::Infer`, only handling infers in unambig positions by accident.
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- People may write visitors which check for `GenerArg::Ty/Const(TyKind/ConstArgKind::Infer)` and `GenerigArg::Infer`, not realising that we never represent inferred types/consts in ambig positions as a `GenericArg::Ty/Const`.
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- People may write visitors which check for `GenerArg::Type/Const(TyKind/ConstArgKind::Infer)` and `GenerigArg::Infer`, not realising that we never represent inferred types/consts in ambig positions as a `GenericArg::Type/Const`.
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- People may write visitors which check for *only*`TyKind::Infer` and not `ConstArgKind::Infer` forgetting that there are also inferred const arguments (and vice versa).
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To make writing HIR visitors less error prone when caring about inferred types/consts we have a relatively complex system:
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1. We have different types in the compiler for when a type or const is in an unambig or ambig position, `hir::Ty<AmbigArg>` and `hir::Ty<()>`. `AmbigArg` is an uninhabited type which we use in the `Infer` variant of `TyKind` and `ConstArgKind` to selectively "disable" it if we are in an ambig position.
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1. We have different types in the compiler for when a type or const is in an unambig or ambig position, `hir::Ty<AmbigArg>` and `hir::Ty<()>`. [`AmbigArg`][ambig_arg] is an uninhabited type which we use in the `Infer` variant of `TyKind` and `ConstArgKind` to selectively "disable" it if we are in an ambig position.
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2. The `visit_ty` and `visit_const_arg` methods on HIR visitors only accept the ambig position versions of types/consts. Unambig types/consts are implicitly converted to ambig types/consts during the visiting process, with the `Infer` variant handled by a dedicated `visit_infer` method.
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2. The [`visit_ty`][visit_infer] and [`visit_const_arg`][visit_const_arg] methods on HIR visitors only accept the ambig position versions of types/consts. Unambig types/consts are implicitly converted to ambig types/consts during the visiting process, with the `Infer` variant handled by a dedicated [`visit_infer`][visit_infer] method.
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This has a number of benefits:
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- It's clear that `GenericArg::Ty/Const` cannot represent inferred type/const arguments
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- It's clear that `GenericArg::Type/Const` cannot represent inferred type/const arguments
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- Implementors of `visit_ty` and `visit_const_arg` will never encounter inferred types/consts making it impossible to write a visitor that seems to work right but handles edge cases wrong
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- The `visit_infer` method handles *all* cases of inferred type/consts in the HIR making it easy for visitors to handle inferred type/consts in one dedicated place and not forget cases
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- The `visit_infer` method handles *all* cases of inferred type/consts in the HIR making it easy for visitors to handle inferred type/consts in one dedicated place and not forget cases
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