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authorbors <bors@rust-lang.org>2015-05-01 04:22:53 +0000
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Auto merge of #24793 - aturon:io-error-any, r=alexcrichton
This commit brings the `Error` trait in line with the [Error interoperation
RFC](https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/pull/201) by adding downcasting,
which has long been intended. This change means that for any `Error`
trait objects that are `'static`, you can downcast to concrete error
types.

To make this work, it is necessary for `Error` to inherit from
`Reflect` (which is currently used to mark concrete types as "permitted
for reflection, aka downcasting"). This is a breaking change: it means
that impls like

```rust
impl<T> Error for MyErrorType<T> { ... }
```

must change to

```rust
impl<T: Reflect> Error for MyErrorType<T> { ... }
```

This commit furthermore marks `Reflect` as stable, since we are already
essentially committed to it via `Any`. Note that in the future, if we
determine that the parametricity aspects of `Reflect` are not needed, we
can deprecate the trait and provide a blanket implementation for it
for *all* types (rather than by using OIBIT), which would allow all
mentions of `Reflect` to be dropped over time. So there is not a strong
commitment here.

[breaking-change]

r? @alexcrichton 
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