This is intended to be used for template instantiation, but for now takes no stance as to what it's cloning.
This is tested by parsing and cloning all of our test files, and checking that the result of converting each AST to proto is the same as the result of cloning and then converting each AST to proto.
Change explorer's handling of witnesses to track them wherever possible. Associated constant support needs witnesses to be available much more pervasively.
The main changes here are:
- `Substitute` now takes a set of bindings covering both `Value`s for `GenericBinding`s and `Witness`es for `ImplBinding`s, and substitutes both.
- Witnesses are now tracked within `ConstraintType`s. The `.Self` type has an `ImplBinding` that self-references from parts of the constraint to other parts of the constraint can use to access the witness for the constraint.
- The constraint type for an `impl` and for a `GenericBinding` are now stored in pre-substituted form, with references to the actual constrained type rather than symbolic references to `.Self`. This results in minor changes in diagnostic text.
Argument deduction still performs substitutions without remapping witnesses.
This avoids the need to make copies of potentially large maps when
the same bindings are used in multiple values, such as when forming
a bound method value.
Richard Smith
Jon Ross-Perkins