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authorPaolo G. Giarrusso <p.giarrusso@gmail.com>2016-11-07 20:46:10 +0100
committerPaolo G. Giarrusso <p.giarrusso@gmail.com>2016-11-07 21:07:49 +0100
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Resync copy of the type diagram in docs
Also add a note that the two diagrams should be kept in sync, both ways, so there's a chance that the copies are kept in sync. Alternatively one could drop a copy.
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diff --git a/docs/docs/internals/type-system.md b/docs/docs/internals/type-system.md
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+++ b/docs/docs/internals/type-system.md
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ A type which inherits `TypeProxy` is a proxy for another type accessible using
the `underlying` method, other types are called _ground_ types and inherit
`CachedGroundType` or `UncachedGroundType`.
+Here's a diagram, copied from [dotty/tools/dotc/core/Types.scala][1]:
+
```
Type -+- ProxyType --+- NamedType ----+--- TypeRef
| | \
@@ -22,19 +24,22 @@ Type -+- ProxyType --+- NamedType ----+--- TypeRef
| | +--- SuperType
| | +--- ConstantType
| | +--- MethodParam
- | | +--- RefinedThis
+ | | +----RecThis
+ | | +--- SkolemType
| +- PolyParam
- | +- RefinedType
+ | +- RefinedOrRecType -+-- RefinedType
+ | | -+-- RecType
+ | +- HKApply
| +- TypeBounds
| +- ExprType
| +- AnnotatedType
| +- TypeVar
+ | +- PolyType
|
+- GroundType -+- AndType
+- OrType
+- MethodType -----+- ImplicitMethodType
| +- JavaMethodType
- +- PolyType
+- ClassInfo
|
+- NoType