Implement type inference for assignee expressions

Author: lowr

crates/hir-ty/src/infer.rs

@@ -137,6 +137,14 @@ trait PatLike: Into<ExprOrPatId> + Copy {
     ) -> Ty;
 }
 
+impl PatLike for ExprId {
+    type BindingMode = ();
+
+    fn infer(this: &mut InferenceContext, id: Self, expected_ty: &Ty, _: Self::BindingMode) -> Ty {
+        this.infer_assignee_expr(id, expected_ty)
+    }
+}
+
 impl PatLike for PatId {
     type BindingMode = BindingMode;
 

crates/hir-ty/src/infer/expr.rs

@@ -593,8 +593,8 @@ impl<'a> InferenceContext<'a> {
             }
             Expr::BinaryOp { lhs, rhs, op } => match op {
                 Some(BinaryOp::Assignment { op: None }) => {
-                    let lhs_ty = self.infer_expr(*lhs, &Expectation::none());
-                    self.infer_expr_coerce(*rhs, &Expectation::has_type(lhs_ty));
+                    let rhs_ty = self.infer_expr(*rhs, &Expectation::none());
+                    self.infer_assignee_expr(*lhs, &rhs_ty);
                     self.result.standard_types.unit.clone()
                 }
                 Some(BinaryOp::LogicOp(_)) => {
@@ -817,6 +817,95 @@ impl<'a> InferenceContext<'a> {
         }
     }
 
+    pub(super) fn infer_assignee_expr(&mut self, lhs: ExprId, rhs_ty: &Ty) -> Ty {
+        let is_rest_expr = |expr| {
+            matches!(
+                &self.body[expr],
+                Expr::Range { lhs: None, rhs: None, range_type: RangeOp::Exclusive },
+            )
+        };
+
+        let rhs_ty = self.resolve_ty_shallow(rhs_ty);
+
+        let ty = match &self.body[lhs] {
+            Expr::Tuple { exprs } => {
+                // We don't consider multiple ellipses. This is analogous to
+                // `hir_def::body::lower::ExprCollector::collect_tuple_pat()`.
+                let ellipsis = exprs.iter().position(|e| is_rest_expr(*e));
+                let exprs: Vec<_> = exprs.iter().filter(|e| !is_rest_expr(**e)).copied().collect();
+
+                self.infer_tuple_pat_like(&rhs_ty, (), ellipsis, &exprs)
+            }
+            Expr::Call { callee, args } => {
+                // Tuple structs
+                let path = match &self.body[*callee] {
+                    Expr::Path(path) => Some(path),
+                    _ => None,
+                };
+
+                // We don't consider multiple ellipses. This is analogous to
+                // `hir_def::body::lower::ExprCollector::collect_tuple_pat()`.
+                let ellipsis = args.iter().position(|e| is_rest_expr(*e));
+                let args: Vec<_> = args.iter().filter(|e| !is_rest_expr(**e)).copied().collect();
+
+                self.infer_tuple_struct_pat_like(path, &rhs_ty, (), lhs, ellipsis, &args)
+            }
+            Expr::Array(Array::ElementList(elements)) => {
+                let elem_ty = match rhs_ty.kind(Interner) {
+                    TyKind::Array(st, _) => st.clone(),
+                    _ => self.err_ty(),
+                };
+
+                // There's no need to handle `..` as it cannot be bound.
+                let sub_exprs = elements.iter().filter(|e| !is_rest_expr(**e));
+
+                for e in sub_exprs {
+                    self.infer_assignee_expr(*e, &elem_ty);
+                }
+
+                match rhs_ty.kind(Interner) {
+                    TyKind::Array(_, _) => rhs_ty.clone(),
+                    // Even when `rhs_ty` is not an array type, this assignee
+                    // expression is infered to be an array (of unknown element
+                    // type and length). This should not be just an error type,
+                    // because we are to compute the unifiability of this type and
+                    // `rhs_ty` in the end of this function to issue type mismatches.
+                    _ => TyKind::Array(self.err_ty(), crate::consteval::usize_const(None))
+                        .intern(Interner),
+                }
+            }
+            Expr::RecordLit { path, fields, .. } => {
+                let subs = fields.iter().map(|f| (f.name.clone(), f.expr));
+
+                self.infer_record_pat_like(path.as_deref(), &rhs_ty, (), lhs.into(), subs)
+            }
+            Expr::Underscore => rhs_ty.clone(),
+            _ => {
+                // `lhs` is a place expression, a unit struct, or an enum variant.
+                let lhs_ty = self.infer_expr(lhs, &Expectation::none());
+
+                // This is the only branch where this function may coerce any type.
+                // We are returning early to avoid the unifiability check below.
+                let lhs_ty = self.insert_type_vars_shallow(lhs_ty);
+                let ty = match self.coerce(None, &rhs_ty, &lhs_ty) {
+                    Ok(ty) => ty,
+                    Err(_) => self.err_ty(),
+                };
+                self.write_expr_ty(lhs, ty.clone());
+                return ty;
+            }
+        };
+
+        let ty = self.insert_type_vars_shallow(ty);
+        if !self.unify(&ty, &rhs_ty) {
+            self.result
+                .type_mismatches
+                .insert(lhs.into(), TypeMismatch { expected: rhs_ty.clone(), actual: ty.clone() });
+        }
+        self.write_expr_ty(lhs, ty.clone());
+        ty
+    }
+
     fn infer_overloadable_binop(
         &mut self,
         lhs: ExprId,

crates/hir-ty/src/tests/coercion.rs

@@ -312,6 +312,24 @@ fn f(text: &str) {
     );
 }
 
+#[test]
+fn destructuring_assign_coerce() {
+    check_no_mismatches(
+        r"
+//- minicore: deref
+struct String;
+impl core::ops::Deref for String { type Target = str; }
+fn g(_text: &str) {}
+fn f(text: &str) {
+    let mut text = text;
+    let tmp = String;
+    [text, _] = [&tmp, &tmp];
+    g(text);
+}
+",
+    );
+}
+
 #[test]
 fn coerce_fn_item_to_fn_ptr() {
     check_no_mismatches(