Arbitrary self types v2: update reference. by adetaylor · Pull Request #1699 · rust-lang/reference
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Jan 30, 2025This section of the reference has been oversimplistic for some time (rust-lang#1018 and rust-lang#1534) and various rewrites have been attempted (e.g. rust-lang#1394, rust-lang#1432). Here's another attempt! My approach here is: * Stop trying to keep it short and concise * Document what actually happens in the code, step by step This does result in a long explanation, because we're trying to document nearly 2400 lines of code in `probe.rs`, but doing otherwise feels as though we'll continue to run into criticisms of oversimplification. This rewrite documents the post-arbitrary-self-types v2 situation, i.e. it assumes rust-lang/rust#135881 has landed. We should not merge this until or unless that lands. This PR was inspired by discussion in rust-lang#1699. If we go ahead with this approach, rust-lang#1699 becomes irrelevant. There was also discussion at rust-lang/cargo#15117 (comment)
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