Error code E0059

The built-in function traits are generic over a tuple of the function arguments. If one uses angle-bracket notation (Fn<(T,), Output=U>) instead of parentheses (Fn(T) -> U) to denote the function trait, the type parameter should be a tuple. Otherwise function call notation cannot be used and the trait will not be implemented by closures.

The most likely source of this error is using angle-bracket notation without wrapping the function argument type into a tuple, for example:

#![feature(unboxed_closures)]

fn foo<F: Fn<i32>>(f: F) -> F::Output { f(3) }
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It can be fixed by adjusting the trait bound like this:

#![feature(unboxed_closures)]

fn foo<F: Fn<(i32,)>>(f: F) -> F::Output { f(3) }
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Note that (T,) always denotes the type of a 1-tuple containing an element of type T. The comma is necessary for syntactic disambiguation.

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