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Override error message is misleading and misses an obvious alternative solution. #5358

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scabug opened this issue Jan 5, 2012 · 2 comments
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scabug commented Jan 5, 2012

Consider this code:

trait A { def hi = "A" }
trait B { def hi = "B" }
class C extends A with B

It results in the following compiler error message:

<console>:9: error: overriding method hi in trait A of type => String;
 method hi in trait B of type => String needs `override' modifier
       class C extends A with B
             ^

The problem is that

  • the solution suggested does not work in most cases, because A and B need to be in some inheritance relationship for it to work:
scala> trait B { override def hi = "B" }
<console>:7: error: method hi overrides nothing
       trait B { override def hi = "B" }
                              ^
  • the possibility to use override in C is not mentioned at all:
class C extends A with B {
  override def hi = "C"
}

Maybe it is possible to improve this message.

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scabug commented Jan 5, 2012

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5358?orig=1
Reporter: @soc

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scabug commented Feb 20, 2012

@paulp said:
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@scabug scabug closed this as completed Feb 20, 2012
@scabug scabug added this to the 2.10.0 milestone Apr 7, 2017
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