mozilla/rust — pull request #5802 by nikomatsakis (2013-04-09 14:43:33+00:00)
Title: Cleanup substitutions and treatment of generics around traits in a number of ways

Cleanup substitutions and treatment of generics around traits in a number of ways

- In a TraitRef, use the self type consistently to refer to the Self type:
- trait ref in `impl Trait for S` has a self type of `S`.
- trait ref in `A:Trait` has the self type `A`
- trait ref associated with a trait decl has self type `Self`
- trait ref associated with a supertype has self type `Self`
- trait ref in an object type `@Trait` has no self type

- Rewrite `each_bound_traits_and_supertraits` to perform
substitutions as it goes, and thus yield a series of trait refs
that are always in the same 'namespace' as the type parameter
bound given as input. Before, we left this to the caller, but
this doesn't work because the caller lacks adequare information
to perform the type substitutions correctly.

- For provided methods, substitute the generics involved in the provided
method correctly.

- Introduce TypeParameterDef, which tracks the bounds declared on a type
parameter and brings them together with the def_id and (in the future)
other information (maybe even the parameter's name!).

- Introduce Subst trait, which helps to cleanup a lot of the
repetitive code involved with doing type substitution.

- Introduce Repr trait, which makes debug printouts far more convenient.

Fixes #4183. Needed for #5656.

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