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by-name argument creates spurious type mismatch #5886

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scabug opened this issue Jun 5, 2012 · 11 comments
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by-name argument creates spurious type mismatch #5886

scabug opened this issue Jun 5, 2012 · 11 comments

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scabug commented Jun 5, 2012

object A {
  def f0[T](x: T): T = x
  def f1[T](x: => T): T = x
  def f2[T](x: () => T): T = x()

  val x0 = f0(this.getClass)  // ok
  val x1 = f1(this.getClass)
  val x2 = f2(this.getClass)  // ok

  // a.scala:7: error: type mismatch;
  //  found   : Class[_ <: A.type]
  //  required: Class[?0(in value x1)] where type ?0(in value x1) <: A.type
  // Note: A.type >: ?0, but Java-defined class Class is invariant in type T.
  // You may wish to investigate a wildcard type such as `_ >: ?0`. (SLS 3.2.10)
  //   val x1 = f1(this.getClass)
  //                    ^
  // one error found
}
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scabug commented Jun 5, 2012

Imported From: https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5886?orig=1
Reporter: @paulp

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scabug commented Jul 16, 2012

Bruno Bieth (mustaghattack) said:
Breaks Scala Specs as Expectable have by-name argument :

"".getClass must haveClass[String]

Doesn't compile anymore

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scabug commented Nov 16, 2012

@adriaanm said:
bumped the priority because this comes up a lot

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scabug commented Jan 13, 2013

@retronym said:
The difference between f0 and f1 boils down to the checkPackedConforms check in SuperAccessors, dating all the way back to the introduction of existentials.

scala/scala@8414eba#L10R56

There doesn't appear to be any material difference in Typers itself; both variations lead to an existential skolem ?0 <: A in the type of .getClass.

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<                 typed A.this.f0: [T](x: T)T
<                 adapted A.this.f0: [T](x: T)T to ?, undetparams=type T
<                 typing this.getClass: pt = ?: undetparams=, implicitsEnabled=true, enrichmentEnabled=true, mode=EXPRmode BYVALmode POLYmode, silent=false, context.owner=value <local A>
---
>                 typed A.this.f0: [T](x: => T)T
>                 adapted A.this.f0: [T](x: => T)T to ?, undetparams=type T
>                 typing this.getClass: pt = ?: undetparams=, implicitsEnabled=true, enrichmentEnabled=true, mode=EXPRmode POLYmode, silent=false, context.owner=value <local A>
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< [infer method] solving for T in (x: T)T based on (Class[?0])T (solved: T=Class[?0])
---
> [infer method] solving for T in (x: => T)T based on (Class[?0])T (solved: T=Class[?0])
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scabug commented Jan 14, 2013

@retronym said:
Nothing breaks with the check disabled.

retronym/scala@scala:2.10.x...retronym:ticket/5886

What was it trying to prevent?

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scabug commented Jan 14, 2013

@paulp said (edited on Jan 14, 2013 5:00:40 PM UTC):
It seems to be trying to verify that it still typechecks with fresh existentials. That is, if we call f[Set[_ <: AnyRef]], then T=Set[$1] forSome { type $1 <: AnyRef }. Now even if our return type is Set[_ <: AnyRef], it is Set[$2] forSome { type $2 <: AnyRef }, which is no longer T.

It seems relevant that "x: T" is stable but "x: => T" is not, as I discovered when I tried to return x.type from f1.

I'm not 100% sure why "x: () => T" is more acceptable (I'm not 100% sure of the rest of this either, or much of anything else really) but it makes sense on some level which I won't try to articulate.

But in the end, either we can come up with a way that allowing f1 to work is unsound, or we should make it work. These handwavy attempts to retrofit logic onto ancient code are unacceptable.

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scabug commented Jan 14, 2013

@paulp said:
I would look at something like

def fn(arr1: Array[_ <: AnyRef], arr2: Array[_ <: AnyRef]) 

And see if you can somehow exploit the absence of that check to assign between those arrays.

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scabug commented Jan 28, 2013

@adriaanm said:
i don't know why this is, but I have a feeling I'd need to reread the TAPL chapter before making a call here
hence, rescheduling

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scabug commented Jan 28, 2013

@retronym said:
Martin drew a blank when looking at the code and the commit that introduced it.

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scabug commented May 15, 2013

@adriaanm said:
scala/scala#2537

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scabug commented May 17, 2013

@paulp said:
01716c8

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