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Why aren’t function signatures inferred? Why only local slots?

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Why aren’t function signatures inferred? Why only local slots?

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• Mechanically, it simplifies the inference algorithm; inference only requires looking at one function at a time. • The same simplification goes double for human readers. A reader does not need an IDE running an inference algorithm across an entire crate to be able to guess at a function’s argument types; it’s always explicit and nearby.

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