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<a id="settings-menu" href="../../../settings.html"><img src="../../../wheel.svg" width="18" alt="Change settings"></a></div></form></nav><section id="main" class="content"><h1 class="fqn"><span class="out-of-band"><span id="render-detail"><a id="toggle-all-docs" href="javascript:void(0)" title="collapse all docs">[<span class="inner">−</span>]</a></span><a class="srclink" href="../../../src/syn/discouraged.rs.html#6-158" title="goto source code">[src]</a></span><span class="in-band">Trait <a href="../../index.html">syn</a>::<wbr><a href="../index.html">parse</a>::<wbr><a href="index.html">discouraged</a>::<wbr><a class="trait" href="">Speculative</a></span></h1><div class="docblock type-decl hidden-by-usual-hider"><pre class="rust trait">pub trait Speculative {
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fn <a href="#tymethod.advance_to" class="fnname">advance_to</a>(&self, fork: <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>Self);
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}</pre></div><div class="docblock"><p>Extensions to the <code>ParseStream</code> API to support speculative parsing.</p>
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</div><h2 id="required-methods" class="small-section-header">Required methods<a href="#required-methods" class="anchor"></a></h2><div class="methods"><h3 id="tymethod.advance_to" class="method"><code>fn <a href="#tymethod.advance_to" class="fnname">advance_to</a>(&self, fork: <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>Self)</code></h3><div class="docblock"><p>Advance this parse stream to the position of a forked parse stream.</p>
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<p>This is the opposite operation to <a href="../../../syn/parse/struct.ParseBuffer.html#method.fork"><code>ParseStream::fork</code></a>. You can fork a
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parse stream, perform some speculative parsing, then join the original
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stream to the fork to "commit" the parsing from the fork to the main
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stream.</p>
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<p>If you can avoid doing this, you should, as it limits the ability to
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generate useful errors. That said, it is often the only way to parse
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syntax of the form <code>A* B*</code> for arbitrary syntax <code>A</code> and <code>B</code>. The problem
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is that when the fork fails to parse an <code>A</code>, it's impossible to tell
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whether that was because of a syntax error and the user meant to provide
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an <code>A</code>, or that the <code>A</code>s are finished and it's time to start parsing
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<code>B</code>s. Use with care.</p>
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<p>Also note that if <code>A</code> is a subset of <code>B</code>, <code>A* B*</code> can be parsed by
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parsing <code>B*</code> and removing the leading members of <code>A</code> from the
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repetition, bypassing the need to involve the downsides associated with
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speculative parsing.</p>
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<h1 id="example" class="section-header"><a href="#example">Example</a></h1>
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<p>There has been chatter about the possibility of making the colons in the
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turbofish syntax like <code>path::to::<T></code> no longer required by accepting
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<code>path::to<T></code> in expression position. Specifically, according to <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2544">RFC
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2544</a>, <a href="../../../syn/struct.PathSegment.html"><code>PathSegment</code></a> parsing should always try to consume a following
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<code><</code> token as the start of generic arguments, and reset to the <code><</code> if
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that fails (e.g. the token is acting as a less-than operator).</p>
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<p>This is the exact kind of parsing behavior which requires the "fork,
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try, commit" behavior that <a href="../../../syn/parse/struct.ParseBuffer.html#method.fork"><code>ParseStream::fork</code></a> discourages. With
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<code>advance_to</code>, we can avoid having to parse the speculatively parsed
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content a second time.</p>
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<p>This change in behavior can be implemented in syn by replacing just the
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<code>Parse</code> implementation for <code>PathSegment</code>:</p>
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<div class="example-wrap"><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered">
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<span class="kw">use</span> <span class="ident">syn</span>::<span class="ident">parse</span>::<span class="ident">discouraged</span>::<span class="ident">Speculative</span>;
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<span class="kw">pub</span> <span class="kw">struct</span> <span class="ident">PathSegment</span> {
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<span class="kw">pub</span> <span class="ident">ident</span>: <span class="ident">Ident</span>,
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<span class="kw">pub</span> <span class="ident">arguments</span>: <span class="ident">PathArguments</span>,
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}
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<span class="kw">impl</span> <span class="ident">Parse</span> <span class="kw">for</span> <span class="ident">PathSegment</span> {
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<span class="kw">fn</span> <span class="ident">parse</span>(<span class="ident">input</span>: <span class="ident">ParseStream</span>) <span class="op">-</span><span class="op">></span> <span class="prelude-ty">Result</span><span class="op"><</span><span class="self">Self</span><span class="op">></span> {
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<span class="kw">if</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="kw">super</span>])
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<span class="op">|</span><span class="op">|</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="self">self</span>])
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<span class="op">|</span><span class="op">|</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="self">Self</span>])
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<span class="op">|</span><span class="op">|</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="kw">crate</span>])
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{
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<span class="kw">let</span> <span class="ident">ident</span> <span class="op">=</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">call</span>(<span class="ident">Ident</span>::<span class="ident">parse_any</span>)<span class="question-mark">?</span>;
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<span class="kw">return</span> <span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(<span class="ident">PathSegment</span>::<span class="ident">from</span>(<span class="ident">ident</span>));
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}
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<span class="kw">let</span> <span class="ident">ident</span> <span class="op">=</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">parse</span>()<span class="question-mark">?</span>;
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<span class="kw">if</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[::]) <span class="op">&&</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek3</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="op"><</span>]) {
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<span class="kw">return</span> <span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(<span class="ident">PathSegment</span> {
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<span class="ident">ident</span>,
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<span class="ident">arguments</span>: <span class="ident">PathArguments</span>::<span class="ident">AngleBracketed</span>(<span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">parse</span>()<span class="question-mark">?</span>),
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});
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}
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<span class="kw">if</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="op"><</span>]) <span class="op">&&</span> <span class="op">!</span><span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">peek</span>(<span class="macro">Token</span><span class="macro">!</span>[<span class="op"><</span><span class="op">=</span>]) {
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<span class="kw">let</span> <span class="ident">fork</span> <span class="op">=</span> <span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">fork</span>();
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<span class="kw">if</span> <span class="kw">let</span> <span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(<span class="ident">arguments</span>) <span class="op">=</span> <span class="ident">fork</span>.<span class="ident">parse</span>() {
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<span class="ident">input</span>.<span class="ident">advance_to</span>(<span class="kw-2">&</span><span class="ident">fork</span>);
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<span class="kw">return</span> <span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(<span class="ident">PathSegment</span> {
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<span class="ident">ident</span>,
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<span class="ident">arguments</span>: <span class="ident">PathArguments</span>::<span class="ident">AngleBracketed</span>(<span class="ident">arguments</span>),
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});
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}
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}
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<span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(<span class="ident">PathSegment</span>::<span class="ident">from</span>(<span class="ident">ident</span>))
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}
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}
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</pre></div>
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<h1 id="drawbacks" class="section-header"><a href="#drawbacks">Drawbacks</a></h1>
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<p>The main drawback of this style of speculative parsing is in error
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presentation. Even if the lookahead is the "correct" parse, the error
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that is shown is that of the "fallback" parse. To use the same example
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as the turbofish above, take the following unfinished "turbofish":</p>
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<pre><code class="language-text">let _ = f<&'a fn(), for<'a> serde::>();
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</code></pre>
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<p>If this is parsed as generic arguments, we can provide the error message</p>
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<pre><code class="language-text">error: expected identifier
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--> src.rs:L:C
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L | let _ = f<&'a fn(), for<'a> serde::>();
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| ^
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</code></pre>
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<p>but if parsed using the above speculative parsing, it falls back to
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assuming that the <code><</code> is a less-than when it fails to parse the generic
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arguments, and tries to interpret the <code>&'a</code> as the start of a labelled
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loop, resulting in the much less helpful error</p>
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<pre><code class="language-text">error: expected `:`
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--> src.rs:L:C
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L | let _ = f<&'a fn(), for<'a> serde::>();
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| ^^
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</code></pre>
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<p>This can be mitigated with various heuristics (two examples: show both
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forks' parse errors, or show the one that consumed more tokens), but
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when you can control the grammar, sticking to something that can be
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parsed LL(3) and without the LL(*) speculative parsing this makes
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possible, displaying reasonable errors becomes much more simple.</p>
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<h1 id="performance" class="section-header"><a href="#performance">Performance</a></h1>
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<p>This method performs a cheap fixed amount of work that does not depend
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on how far apart the two streams are positioned.</p>
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<h1 id="panics" class="section-header"><a href="#panics">Panics</a></h1>
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<p>The forked stream in the argument of <code>advance_to</code> must have been
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obtained by forking <code>self</code>. Attempting to advance to any other stream
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will cause a panic.</p>
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</div></div><span class="loading-content">Loading content...</span><h2 id="implementors" class="small-section-header">Implementors<a href="#implementors" class="anchor"></a></h2><div class="item-list" id="implementors-list"><h3 id="impl-Speculative" class="impl"><code class="in-band">impl<'a> Speculative for <a class="struct" href="../../../syn/parse/struct.ParseBuffer.html" title="struct syn::parse::ParseBuffer">ParseBuffer</a><'a></code><a href="#impl-Speculative" class="anchor"></a><a class="srclink" href="../../../src/syn/discouraged.rs.html#160-194" title="goto source code">[src]</a></h3><div class="impl-items"><h4 id="method.advance_to" class="method hidden"><code>fn <a href="#method.advance_to" class="fnname">advance_to</a>(&self, fork: <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&</a>Self)</code><a class="srclink" href="../../../src/syn/discouraged.rs.html#161-193" title="goto source code">[src]</a></h4></div></div><span class="loading-content">Loading content...</span><script type="text/javascript" src="../../../implementors/syn/parse/discouraged/trait.Speculative.js" async></script></section><section id="search" class="content hidden"></section><section class="footer"></section><script>window.rootPath = "../../../";window.currentCrate = "syn";</script><script src="../../../main.js"></script><script defer src="../../../search-index.js"></script></body></html> |