While looking into potential AST optimizations, I noticed the `AstNode`
trait and `AnyNode` type aren't used anywhere in Ruff or Red Knot. It
looks like they might be historical artifacts of previous ways of
consuming AST nodes?
- `AstNode::cast`, `AstNode::cast_ref`, and `AstNode::can_cast` are not
used anywhere.
- Since `cast_ref` isn't needed anymore, the `Ref` associated type isn't
either.
This is a pure refactoring, with no intended behavior changes.
Remove unnecessary uses of `.as_ref()`, `.iter()`, `&**` and similar, mostly in situations when iterating over variables. Many of these changes are only possible following #13826, when we bumped our MSRV to 1.80: several useful implementations on `&Box<[T]>` were only stabilised in Rust 1.80. Some of these changes we could have done earlier, however.
## Summary
The motivation here is that this enables us to implement `Ranged` in
crates that don't depend on `ruff_python_ast`.
Largely a mechanical refactor with a lot of regex, Clippy help, and
manual fixups.
## Test Plan
`cargo test`
## Summary
This PR introduces two new AST nodes to improve the representation of
`PatternMatchClass`. As a reminder, `PatternMatchClass` looks like this:
```python
case Point2D(0, 0, x=1, y=2):
...
```
Historically, this was represented as a vector of patterns (for the `0,
0` portion) and parallel vectors of keyword names (for `x` and `y`) and
values (for `1` and `2`). This introduces a bunch of challenges for the
formatter, but importantly, it's also really different from how we
represent similar nodes, like arguments (`func(0, 0, x=1, y=2)`) or
parameters (`def func(x, y)`).
So, firstly, we now use a single node (`PatternArguments`) for the
entire parenthesized region, making it much more consistent with our
other nodes. So, above, `PatternArguments` would be `(0, 0, x=1, y=2)`.
Secondly, we now have a `PatternKeyword` node for `x=1` and `y=2`. This
is much more similar to the how `Keyword` is represented within
`Arguments` for call expressions.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/6866.
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/6880.
Brent Westbrook
Micha Reiser
Douglas Creager
Alex Waygood
Charlie Marsh