impl
trait for "const generics"
#6946
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Description
This PR is part of #6860.
It implements "impl traits" for "const generics", which means syntax such as:
This also opens the space for simplifying our current implementation of
AbiEncode
for arrays. Today we implement for each size, which limits us to a specific size. With this one can have just one "impl item", and support arrays of arbitrary size.Both implementations will coexist in
codec.sw
until we stabilize "const generics".Checklist
Breaking*
orNew Feature
labels where relevant.