rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-clippy
Add utils helper for filtering out type/lifetime parameters on generics
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Description
See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/pull/3786/files , we have a lot of code that does something like params.args.iter().filter_map(|arg| match arg { GenericArg::Lifetime(lt) => Some(lt), _ => None }
We should probably have a helper function that returns an iterator for these, placed in utils. Probably something like:
fn types_of_generics(generics: &Generics) -> impl Iterator<Type> {...}
fn lifetimes_of_generics(generics: &Generics) -> impl Iterator<Lifetime> {...}
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Research direction
Review the generic-argument filtering patterns shown in the files changed by pull request 3786, then inspect the existing utils module. Add the proposed helpers for extracting types and lifetimes from generics, and verify that their iterator behavior matches the existing filtering patterns.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Mostly clear
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- 42/100