Rollup merge of #118157 - Nadrieril:never_pat-feature-gate, r=compiler-errors

Add `never_patterns` feature gate

This PR adds the feature gate and most basic parsing for the experimental `never_patterns` feature. See the tracking issue (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/118155) for details on the experiment.

`@scottmcm` has agreed to be my lang-team liaison for this experiment.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir.rs b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir.rs
index 00c33113692..c48428c713c 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir.rs
@@ -635,7 +635,12 @@ impl<'tcx> Pat<'tcx> {
 
         use PatKind::*;
         match &self.kind {
-            Wild | Range(..) | Binding { subpattern: None, .. } | Constant { .. } | Error(_) => {}
+            Wild
+            | Never
+            | Range(..)
+            | Binding { subpattern: None, .. }
+            | Constant { .. }
+            | Error(_) => {}
             AscribeUserType { subpattern, .. }
             | Binding { subpattern: Some(subpattern), .. }
             | Deref { subpattern }
@@ -809,6 +814,9 @@ pub enum PatKind<'tcx> {
         pats: Box<[Box<Pat<'tcx>>]>,
     },
 
+    /// A never pattern `!`.
+    Never,
+
     /// An error has been encountered during lowering. We probably shouldn't report more lints
     /// related to this pattern.
     Error(ErrorGuaranteed),
@@ -1069,6 +1077,7 @@ impl<'tcx> fmt::Display for Pat<'tcx> {
 
         match self.kind {
             PatKind::Wild => write!(f, "_"),
+            PatKind::Never => write!(f, "!"),
             PatKind::AscribeUserType { ref subpattern, .. } => write!(f, "{subpattern}: _"),
             PatKind::Binding { mutability, name, mode, ref subpattern, .. } => {
                 let is_mut = match mode {
diff --git a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir/visit.rs b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir/visit.rs
index 62c3ceeab8a..4943c11848b 100644
--- a/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir/visit.rs
+++ b/compiler/rustc_middle/src/thir/visit.rs
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@ pub fn walk_pat<'a, 'tcx: 'a, V: Visitor<'a, 'tcx>>(visitor: &mut V, pat: &Pat<'
             is_primary: _,
             name: _,
         } => visitor.visit_pat(subpattern),
-        Binding { .. } | Wild | Error(_) => {}
+        Binding { .. } | Wild | Never | Error(_) => {}
         Variant { subpatterns, adt_def: _, args: _, variant_index: _ } | Leaf { subpatterns } => {
             for subpattern in subpatterns {
                 visitor.visit_pat(&subpattern.pattern);