syntax: add recovery for intersection patterns p1 @ p2

Author: Centril

src/libsyntax/parse/parser/pat.rs

@@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
 
         let pat = self.mk_pat(lo.to(self.prev_span), pat);
         let pat = self.maybe_recover_from_bad_qpath(pat, true)?;
+        let pat = self.recover_intersection_pat(pat)?;
 
         if !allow_range_pat {
             self.ban_pat_range_if_ambiguous(&pat)?
@@ -375,6 +376,65 @@ impl<'a> Parser<'a> {
         Ok(pat)
     }
 
+    /// Try to recover the more general form `intersect ::= $pat_lhs @ $pat_rhs`.
+    ///
+    /// Allowed binding patterns generated by `binding ::= ref? mut? $ident @ $pat_rhs`
+    /// should already have been parsed by now  at this point,
+    /// if the next token is `@` then we can try to parse the more general form.
+    ///
+    /// Consult `parse_pat_ident` for the `binding` grammar.
+    ///
+    /// The notion of intersection patterns are found in
+    /// e.g. [F#][and] where they are called AND-patterns.
+    ///
+    /// [and]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-reference/pattern-matching
+    fn recover_intersection_pat(&mut self, lhs: P<Pat>) -> PResult<'a, P<Pat>> {
+        if self.token.kind != token::At {
+            // Next token is not `@` so it's not going to be an intersection pattern.
+            return Ok(lhs);
+        }
+
+        // At this point we attempt to parse `@ $pat_rhs` and emit an error.
+        self.bump(); // `@`
+        let mut rhs = self.parse_pat(None)?;
+        let sp = lhs.span.to(rhs.span);
+
+        if let PatKind::Ident(_, _, ref mut sub @ None) = rhs.kind {
+            // The user inverted the order, so help them fix that.
+            let mut applicability = Applicability::MachineApplicable;
+            lhs.walk(&mut |p| match p.kind {
+                // `check_match` is unhappy if the subpattern has a binding anywhere.
+                PatKind::Ident(..) => {
+                    applicability = Applicability::MaybeIncorrect;
+                    false // Short-circuit.
+                },
+                _ => true,
+            });
+
+            let lhs_span = lhs.span;
+            // Move the LHS into the RHS as a subpattern.
+            // The RHS is now the full pattern.
+            *sub = Some(lhs);
+
+            self.struct_span_err(sp, "pattern on wrong side of `@`")
+                .span_label(lhs_span, "pattern on the left, should be to the right")
+                .span_label(rhs.span, "binding on the right, should be to the left")
+                .span_suggestion(sp, "switch the order", pprust::pat_to_string(&rhs), applicability)
+                .emit();
+
+            rhs.span = sp;
+            return Ok(rhs);
+        }
+
+        // The special case above doesn't apply so we may have e.g. `A(x) @ B(y)`.
+        let mut err = self.struct_span_err(sp, "left-hand side of `@` must be a binding pattern");
+        err.span_label(lhs.span, "interpreted as a pattern, not a binding")
+            .span_label(rhs.span, "also a pattern")
+            .note("bindings are `x`, `mut x`, `ref x`, and `ref mut x`");
+        // FIXME(Centril): Introduce `PatKind::Err` and use that instead.
+        Err(err)
+    }
+
     /// Ban a range pattern if it has an ambiguous interpretation.
     fn ban_pat_range_if_ambiguous(&self, pat: &Pat) -> PResult<'a, ()> {
         match pat.kind {