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Passing a Function0 invocation to a call by name argument shouldn't create a new Function0 #1247

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scabug opened this issue Aug 20, 2008 · 4 comments
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scabug commented Aug 20, 2008

class Foo{
  val bar = () => "Hello world";

  def foo(x : =>String) = println(x);

  def baz = foo(bar());
}

generates the following bytecode for baz:

public void baz();
  Code:
   0:	aload_0
   1:	new	SI-24; //class Foo$$$$anonfun$$baz$$1
   4:	dup
   5:	aload_0
   6:	invokespecial	SI-25; //Method Foo$$$$anonfun$$baz$$1."<init>":(LFoo;)V
   9:	invokevirtual	SI-29; //Method foo:(Lscala/Function0;)V
   12:	return

So it's wrapping the call to bar() in an additional function, which ends up being () => bar().

It would be nice if it didn't do this - it's not a huge deal, but it would be useful for a few cases where you want to use a call by name argument in an inner loop and this lets you hoist the Function0 passed to it out. It also means slightly fewer class files generated. It probably doesn't really matter though, so I'll mark this as minor.

Note that it does do the right thing already if you pass a call by name argument to another call by name argument, so hopefully this is easy to do.

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scabug commented Aug 20, 2008

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-1247?orig=1
Reporter: @DRMacIver

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scabug commented Aug 20, 2008

@DRMacIver said:
Ok, I won't mark this as minor because I can't set priorities. But please feel free to. :-)

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scabug commented Aug 20, 2008

@dragos said:
These types are regarded as different in the compiler. Maybe Martin can comment on it.

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scabug commented May 12, 2012

@retronym said:
Fixed by Johannes Rudolph scala/scala@00a648b

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