Change Allocated<T>
in preparation for arbitrary self types
#520
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Arbitary self types (tracking issue: rust-lang/rust#44874) are not yet stable, but whatever form they end up as, we'll need to use a different type than
Option<Allocated<T>>
, since you can't (and won't be able to) use that asself: Option<Allocated<Self>>
.My proposal here is to introduce a new type, since we likely still need to be able to differentiate between "this type is newly allocated, and we don't know the nullability" (such as when sending toinit
methods) vs. "this type is allocated, and we know that it is non-null" (such as when receiving frominit
methods).EDIT: See below for the alternative I'm going with.