Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Clean up E0205 explanation #68383

Merged
merged 1 commit into from
Jan 28, 2020
Merged
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
16 changes: 11 additions & 5 deletions src/librustc_error_codes/error_codes/E0206.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
You can only implement `Copy` for a struct or enum. Both of the following
examples will fail, because neither `[u8; 256]` nor `&'static mut Bar`
(mutable reference to `Bar`) is a struct or enum:
The `Copy` trait was implemented on a type which is neither a struct nor an
enum.

Erroneous code example:

```compile_fail,E0206
type Foo = [u8; 256];
impl Copy for Foo { } // error
impl Copy for Foo { } // error!

#[derive(Copy, Clone)]
struct Bar;
impl Copy for &'static mut Bar { } // error

impl Copy for &'static mut Bar { } // error!
```

You can only implement `Copy` for a struct or an enum. Both of the previous
examples will fail, because neither `[u8; 256]` nor `&'static mut Bar`
(mutable reference to `Bar`) is a struct or enum.