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Fix some comments and related types and locals where it is obvious, e.g. - bare_fn -> fn_ptr - LifetimeBinderKind::BareFnType -> LifetimeBinderKind::FnPtrType Co-authored-by: León Orell Valerian Liehr <[email protected]>
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Rollup of 9 pull requests Successful merges: - #143206 (Align attr fixes) - #143236 (Stabilize `mixed_integer_ops_unsigned_sub`) - #143344 (Port `#[path]` to the new attribute parsing infrastructure ) - #143359 (Link to 2024 edition page for `!` fallback changes) - #143456 (mbe: Change `unused_macro_rules` to a `DenseBitSet`) - #143529 (Renamed retain_mut to retain on LinkedList as mentioned in the ACP) - #143535 (Remove duplicate word) - #143544 (compiler: rename BareFn to FnPtr) - #143552 (lib: more eagerly return `self.len()` from `ceil_char_boundary`) r? `@ghost` `@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
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Rollup merge of #143544 - workingjubilee:rename-bare-fn, r=fmease compiler: rename BareFn to FnPtr At some point "BareFn" was the chosen name for a "bare" function, without the niceties of `~fn`, `&fn`, or a few other ways of writing a function type. However, at some point the syntax for a "bare function" and any other function diverged even more. We started calling them what they are: function pointers, denoted by their own syntax. However, we never changed the *internal* name for these, as this divergence was very gradual. Personally, I have repeatedly searched for "FnPtr" and gotten confused until I find the name is BareFn, only to forget this until the next time, since I don't routinely interact with the higher-level AST and HIR. But even tools that interact with these internal types only touch on them in a few places, making a migration easy enough. Let's use a more intuitive and obvious name, as this 12+ year old name has little to do with current Rust.
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Rollup of 9 pull requests Successful merges: - rust-lang/rust#143206 (Align attr fixes) - rust-lang/rust#143236 (Stabilize `mixed_integer_ops_unsigned_sub`) - rust-lang/rust#143344 (Port `#[path]` to the new attribute parsing infrastructure ) - rust-lang/rust#143359 (Link to 2024 edition page for `!` fallback changes) - rust-lang/rust#143456 (mbe: Change `unused_macro_rules` to a `DenseBitSet`) - rust-lang/rust#143529 (Renamed retain_mut to retain on LinkedList as mentioned in the ACP) - rust-lang/rust#143535 (Remove duplicate word) - rust-lang/rust#143544 (compiler: rename BareFn to FnPtr) - rust-lang/rust#143552 (lib: more eagerly return `self.len()` from `ceil_char_boundary`) r? `@ghost` `@rustbot` modify labels: rollup
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At some point "BareFn" was the chosen name for a "bare" function, without the niceties of
~fn,&fn, or a few other ways of writing a function type. However, at some point the syntax for a "bare function" and any other function diverged even more. We started calling them what they are: function pointers, denoted by their own syntax.However, we never changed the internal name for these, as this divergence was very gradual. Personally, I have repeatedly searched for "FnPtr" and gotten confused until I find the name is BareFn, only to forget this until the next time, since I don't routinely interact with the higher-level AST and HIR. But even tools that interact with these internal types only touch on them in a few places, making a migration easy enough. Let's use a more intuitive and obvious name, as this 12+ year old name has little to do with current Rust.