Hash/Eq on type: `for<'a> fn(&'a u32)`

[naicode]

Is there a reason why Hash and Eq are not implemented for function which have a parameter with a lifetime valid for any lifetime.

E.g. for <'a> fn(&'a u32) or short fn(&u32) does not implement Hash/Eq …

I have a number of validation function, which are meant to be defined statically (e.g. through a macro, outside of the crate). And I intended to store them in a HashSet, as it is quite likely that the same function is added multiple times.

EDIT:

a workaround is to use a HashMap<usize, fn(&u32)> (or whatever your function types is) and to fill it like map.insert(func as usize, func).

[dtolnay]

Check out the discussion in Is there any plan to implement basic traits on function pointers that don’t take by value? I think the status as of January was there isn’t a way to express these impls in general in the type system so it would need to be a special case in the compiler, which may happen at some point if someone feels strongly enough to implement it, or it may wait for a new language feature to make things easier.

[naicode]

thanks

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