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type constructor inference works for method call but fails for constructor invocation #4018

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scabug opened this issue Nov 21, 2010 · 5 comments

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scabug commented Nov 21, 2010

= problem =

Type Constructor inference doesn't behave consistently across method calls and constructor invocations.

trait M[V[_]]

class Cls[V[_]](c: M[V])

object Cls{
  def apply[V[_]](c: M[V]): Cls[V] = new Cls[V](c)
}

object test {
  val c: M[Option] = new M[Option] {}
  new Cls(c)         // does not infer.
  new Cls[Option](c) // okay
  Cls(c)             // okay
}

Tested with Scala 2.8.1

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scabug commented Nov 21, 2010

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-4018?orig=1
Reporter: @retronym
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scabug commented Nov 22, 2010

@Sciss said:
this gets really nasty also with method invocations which do perfect inference until you introduce higher-kinded type arguments.

in the attached file you can see that for the first-order case this works:

def test( implicit sys: KSys, c: KCtx ) {
   val p = Factory.test( "Test" )
}

in the second-order case, the implicits are not found. if i add them explicitly, the compiler complains:

<console>:38: error: no type parameters for method test: (implicit sys: Sys[A,B],implicit c: A)Proc[A,B] exist so that it can be applied to arguments (KSys, KCtx)
 --- because ---
argument expression's type is not compatible with formal parameter type;
 found   : KSys
 required: Sys[?A,?B]
          val p = Factory.test( "Test" )( sys, c )
                              ^

so i need to annotate all types. this is a real show stopper for a larger generified library.

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scabug commented Nov 22, 2010

@Sciss said:
Example where method calls must be annotated

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scabug commented Mar 17, 2011

@retronym said:
See more examples in #4347

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scabug commented Jun 19, 2011

@paulp said:
Fixed in r25110.

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