auto merge of #14444 : huonw/rust/nice-for-errors, r=alexcrichton

Change `for` desugaring & make refutable pattern errors more precise

This changes for to desugar to the `let`-based pattern match as described in #14390, and adjusts the compiler to use this information for error messages that even mention that it's in a `for` loop.

Also, it makes the compiler record the exact positions of refutable parts of a pattern, to point to exactly them in error messages.

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/test/compile-fail/for-loop-refutable-pattern-error-message.rs b/src/test/compile-fail/for-loop-refutable-pattern-error-message.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8b00b614909
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/compile-fail/for-loop-refutable-pattern-error-message.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+
+fn main() {
+    for
+        &1 //~ ERROR refutable pattern in `for` loop binding
+        in [1].iter() {}
+}