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1414The lowering is triggered by calling the [ ` mir_built ` ] query.
1515There is an intermediate representation
1616between [ HIR] and [ MIR] called the [ THIR] that is only used during the lowering.
17+ [ THIR] means "Typed HIR" and used to be called "HAIR (High-level Abstract IR)".
1718The [ THIR] 's most important feature is that the various adjustments (which happen
1819without explicit syntax) like coercions, autoderef, autoref and overloaded method
1920calls have become explicit casts, deref operations, reference expressions or
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187187- High-level IR (HIR): This is a sort of desugared AST. It's still close
188188 to what the user wrote syntactically, but it includes some implicit things
189189 such as some elided lifetimes, etc. This IR is amenable to type checking.
190- - Typed HIR (THIR): This is an intermediate between HIR and MIR. It is like the HIR
191- but it is fully typed and a bit more desugared (e.g. method calls and implicit
192- dereferences are made fully explicit). Moreover, it is easier to lower to MIR
193- from THIR than from HIR.
190+ - Typed HIR (THIR): This is an intermediate between HIR and MIR, and used to be called
191+ High-level Abstract IR (HAIR). It is like the HIR but it is fully typed and a bit
192+ more desugared (e.g. method calls and implicit dereferences are made fully explicit).
193+ Moreover, it is easier to lower to MIR from THIR than from HIR.
194194- Middle-level IR (MIR): This IR is basically a Control-Flow Graph (CFG). A CFG
195195 is a type of diagram that shows the basic blocks of a program and how control
196196 flow can go between them. Likewise, MIR also has a bunch of basic blocks with
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