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<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><meta name="generator" content="rustdoc"><meta name="description" content="API documentation for the Rust `Speculative` trait in crate `syn`."><meta name="keywords" content="rust, rustlang, rust-lang, Speculative"><title>syn::parse::discouraged::Speculative - Rust</title><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../normalize.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../rustdoc.css" id="mainThemeStyle"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../dark.css"><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../light.css" id="themeStyle"><script src="../../../storage.js"></script><noscript><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../../noscript.css"></noscript><link rel="shortcut icon" href="../../../favicon.ico"><style type="text/css">#crate-search{background-image:url("../../../down-arrow.svg");}</style></head><body class="rustdoc trait"><!--[if lte IE 8]><div class="warning">This old browser is unsupported and will most likely display funky things.</div><![endif]--><nav class="sidebar"><div class="sidebar-menu">&#9776;</div><a href='../../../syn/index.html'><div class='logo-container'><img src='../../../rust-logo.png' alt='logo'></div></a><p class='location'>Trait Speculative</p><div class="sidebar-elems"><div class="block items"><a class="sidebar-title" href="#required-methods">Required Methods</a><div class="sidebar-links"><a href="#tymethod.advance_to">advance_to</a></div><a class="sidebar-title" href="#implementors">Implementors</a></div><p class='location'><a href='../../index.html'>syn</a>::<wbr><a href='../index.html'>parse</a>::<wbr><a href='index.html'>discouraged</a></p><script>window.sidebarCurrent = {name: 'Speculative', ty: 'trait', relpath: ''};</script><script defer src="sidebar-items.js"></script></div></nav><div class="theme-picker"><button id="theme-picker" aria-label="Pick another theme!"><img src="../../../brush.svg" width="18" alt="Pick another theme!"></button><div id="theme-choices"></div></div><script src="../../../theme.js"></script><nav class="sub"><form class="search-form js-only"><div class="search-container"><div><select id="crate-search"><option value="All crates">All crates</option></select><input class="search-input" name="search" autocomplete="off" spellcheck="false" placeholder="Click or press S to search, ? for more options…" type="search"></div><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'>&#x2212;</span>]</a></span><a class='srclink' href='../../../src/syn/discouraged.rs.html#6-159' 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 {
fn <a href='#tymethod.advance_to' class='fnname'>advance_to</a>(&amp;self, fork: <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&amp;</a>Self);
}</pre></div><div class='docblock'><p>Extensions to the <code>ParseStream</code> API to support speculative parsing.</p>
</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 id='advance_to.v'>fn <a href='#tymethod.advance_to' class='fnname'>advance_to</a>(&amp;self, fork: <a class="primitive" href="https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/primitive.reference.html">&amp;</a>Self)</code></h3><div class='docblock'><p>Advance this parse stream to the position of a forked parse stream.</p>
<p>This is the opposite operation to <a href="../struct.ParseBuffer.html#method.fork"><code>ParseStream::fork</code></a>. You can fork a
parse stream, perform some speculative parsing, then join the original
stream to the fork to &quot;commit&quot; the parsing from the fork to the main
stream.</p>
<p>If you can avoid doing this, you should, as it limits the ability to
generate useful errors. That said, it is often the only way to parse
syntax of the form <code>A* B*</code> for arbitrary syntax <code>A</code> and <code>B</code>. The problem
is that when the fork fails to parse an <code>A</code>, it's impossible to tell
whether that was because of a syntax error and the user meant to provide
an <code>A</code>, or that the <code>A</code>s are finished and its time to start parsing
<code>B</code>s. Use with care.</p>
<p>Also note that if <code>A</code> is a subset of <code>B</code>, <code>A* B*</code> can be parsed by
parsing <code>B*</code> and removing the leading members of <code>A</code> from the
repetition, bypassing the need to involve the downsides associated with
speculative parsing.</p>
<h1 id="example" class="section-header"><a href="#example">Example</a></h1>
<p>There has been chatter about the possibility of making the colons in the
turbofish syntax like <code>path::to::&lt;T&gt;</code> no longer required by accepting
<code>path::to&lt;T&gt;</code> in expression position. Specifically, according to <a href="https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/2544">RFC
2544</a>, <a href="../../struct.PathSegment.html"><code>PathSegment</code></a> parsing should always try to consume a following
<code>&lt;</code> token as the start of generic arguments, and reset to the <code>&lt;</code> if
that fails (e.g. the token is acting as a less-than operator).</p>
<p>This is the exact kind of parsing behavior which requires the &quot;fork,
try, commit&quot; behavior that <a href="../struct.ParseBuffer.html#method.fork"><code>ParseStream::fork</code></a> discourages. With
<code>advance_to</code>, we can avoid having to parse the speculatively parsed
content a second time.</p>
<p>This change in behavior can be implemented in syn by replacing just the
<code>Parse</code> implementation for <code>PathSegment</code>:</p>
<pre><code class="language-edition2018"># use syn::ext::IdentExt;
use syn::parse::discouraged::Speculative;
# use syn::parse::{Parse, ParseStream};
# use syn::{Ident, PathArguments, Result, Token};
pub struct PathSegment {
pub ident: Ident,
pub arguments: PathArguments,
}
#
# impl&lt;T&gt; From&lt;T&gt; for PathSegment
# where
# T: Into&lt;Ident&gt;,
# {
# fn from(ident: T) -&gt; Self {
# PathSegment {
# ident: ident.into(),
# arguments: PathArguments::None,
# }
# }
# }
impl Parse for PathSegment {
fn parse(input: ParseStream) -&gt; Result&lt;Self&gt; {
if input.peek(Token![super])
|| input.peek(Token![self])
|| input.peek(Token![Self])
|| input.peek(Token![crate])
|| input.peek(Token![extern])
{
let ident = input.call(Ident::parse_any)?;
return Ok(PathSegment::from(ident));
}
let ident = input.parse()?;
if input.peek(Token![::]) &amp;&amp; input.peek3(Token![&lt;]) {
return Ok(PathSegment {
ident: ident,
arguments: PathArguments::AngleBracketed(input.parse()?),
});
}
if input.peek(Token![&lt;]) &amp;&amp; !input.peek(Token![&lt;=]) {
let fork = input.fork();
if let Ok(arguments) = fork.parse() {
input.advance_to(&amp;fork);
return Ok(PathSegment {
ident: ident,
arguments: PathArguments::AngleBracketed(arguments),
});
}
}
Ok(PathSegment::from(ident))
}
}
# syn::parse_str::&lt;PathSegment&gt;(&quot;a&lt;b,c&gt;&quot;).unwrap();
</code></pre>
<h1 id="drawbacks" class="section-header"><a href="#drawbacks">Drawbacks</a></h1>
<p>The main drawback of this style of speculative parsing is in error
presentation. Even if the lookahead is the &quot;correct&quot; parse, the error
that is shown is that of the &quot;fallback&quot; parse. To use the same example
as the turbofish above, take the following unfinished &quot;turbofish&quot;:</p>
<pre><code class="language-text">let _ = f&lt;&amp;'a fn(), for&lt;'a&gt; serde::&gt;();
</code></pre>
<p>If this is parsed as generic arguments, we can provide the error message</p>
<pre><code class="language-text">error: expected identifier
--&gt; src.rs:L:C
|
L | let _ = f&lt;&amp;'a fn(), for&lt;'a&gt; serde::&gt;();
| ^
</code></pre>
<p>but if parsed using the above speculative parsing, it falls back to
assuming that the <code>&lt;</code> is a less-than when it fails to parse the generic
arguments, and tries to interpret the <code>&amp;'a</code> as the start of a labelled
loop, resulting in the much less helpful error</p>
<pre><code class="language-text">error: expected `:`
--&gt; src.rs:L:C
|
L | let _ = f&lt;&amp;'a fn(), for&lt;'a&gt; serde::&gt;();
| ^^
</code></pre>
<p>This can be mitigated with various heuristics (two examples: show both
forks' parse errors, or show the one that consumed more tokens), but
when you can control the grammar, sticking to something that can be
parsed LL(3) and without the LL(*) speculative parsing this makes
possible, displaying reasonable errors becomes much more simple.</p>
<h1 id="performance" class="section-header"><a href="#performance">Performance</a></h1>
<p>This method performs a cheap fixed amount of work that does not depend
on how far apart the two streams are positioned.</p>
<h1 id="panics" class="section-header"><a href="#panics">Panics</a></h1>
<p>The forked stream in the argument of <code>advance_to</code> must have been
obtained by forking <code>self</code>. Attempting to advance to any other stream
will cause a panic.</p>
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