Merge #5971

5971: Implement async blocks r=flodiebold a=oxalica

Fix #4018

@flodiebold already gave a generic guide in the issue. Here's some concern about implementation detail:
- Chalk doesn't support generator type yet.
- Adding generator type as a brand new type (ctor) can be complex and need to *re-introduced* builtin impls. (Like how we implement closures before native closure support of chalk, which is already removed in #5401 )
- The output type of async block should be known after type inference of the whole body.
  - We cannot directly get the type from source like return-positon-impl-trait. But we still need to provide trait bounds when chalk asking for `opaque_ty_data`.
  - During the inference, the output type of async block can be temporary unknown and participate the later inference.
    `let a = async { None }; let _: i32 = a.await.unwrap();`

So in this PR, the type of async blocks is inferred as an opaque type parameterized by the `Future::Output` type it should be, like what we do with closure type.
And it really works now.

Well, I still have some questions:
- The bounds `AsyncBlockImplType<T>: Future<Output = T>` is currently generated in `opaque_ty_data`. I'm not sure if we should put this code here.
- Type of async block is now rendered as `impl Future<Output = OutputType>`. Do we need to special display to hint that it's a async block? Note that closure type has its special format, instead of `impl Fn(..) -> ..` or function type.



Co-authored-by: oxalica <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/crates/hir_ty/src/traits/chalk/tls.rs b/crates/hir_ty/src/traits/chalk/tls.rs
index db915625c..cb6b0fe81 100644
--- a/crates/hir_ty/src/traits/chalk/tls.rs
+++ b/crates/hir_ty/src/traits/chalk/tls.rs
@@ -73,6 +73,9 @@ impl DebugContext<'_> {
                 crate::OpaqueTyId::ReturnTypeImplTrait(func, idx) => {
                     write!(f, "{{impl trait {} of {:?}}}", idx, func)?;
                 }
+                crate::OpaqueTyId::AsyncBlockTypeImplTrait(def, idx) => {
+                    write!(f, "{{impl trait of async block {} of {:?}}}", idx.into_raw(), def)?;
+                }
             },
             TypeCtor::Closure { def, expr } => {
                 write!(f, "{{closure {:?} in ", expr.into_raw())?;