rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy

Internal utility for visiting all returns

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Since Oct 16, 2024.

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Description

We should have a ReturnVisitor built on the intravisit::Visitor infra to visit all explicit ExprKind::Return and implicit (last expression in a block) returns.

This would significantly help with some lint ideas, and like #305 (came up in #13395) and #12290 to name a couple.

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