An attempt was made to implement Drop on a specialization of a generic type.
Erroneous code example:
trait Foo {} struct MyStruct<T> { t: T } impl<T: Foo> Drop for MyStruct<T> { fn drop(&mut self) {} }
This code is not legal: it is not possible to specialize Drop to a subset of implementations of a generic type. In order for this code to work, MyStruct must also require that T implements Foo. Alternatively, another option is to wrap the generic type in another that specializes appropriately:
trait Foo{}
struct MyStruct<T> {
t: T
}
struct MyStructWrapper<T: Foo> {
t: MyStruct<T>
}
impl <T: Foo> Drop for MyStructWrapper<T> {
fn drop(&mut self) {}
}