Parentheses notation should respect lifetime elision #18992

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2. nikomatsakis commented on Nov 16, 2014

   

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   Nominating.
3. pnkfelix commented on Nov 20, 2014

   

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   @alexcrichton notes that this can be fixed backwards compatibly, and @nikomatsakis agrees.

   P-high, not 1.0.
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5. nikomatsakis commented on Nov 20, 2014

   

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   Well, sort of -- I mean lifetime elision broke code, but almost only bad code. The problem is that people can use transmute to satisfy the signature and then clients get to assume any lifetime they want.
6. huonw

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   Implement lifetime elision for Foo(...) -> ... type sugar.

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   This issue will close once commit b800ce1 is merged into the 'master' branch.

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7. alexcrichton

   added a commit that references this issue on Dec 9, 2014

   rollup merge of rust-lang#19589: huonw/unboxed-closure-elision

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   This issue will close once commit 63ef9e9 is merged into the 'incoming' branch.

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8. bors

   closed this as completedin #19589on Dec 9, 2014