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authorMartin Odersky <odersky@gmail.com>2014-02-14 19:05:51 +0100
committerMartin Odersky <odersky@gmail.com>2014-02-16 10:58:20 +0100
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Some small doc changes
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diff --git a/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/Symbols.scala b/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/Symbols.scala
index 4aa1ef94d..35ab8419e 100644
--- a/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/Symbols.scala
+++ b/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/Symbols.scala
@@ -203,7 +203,15 @@ trait Symbols { this: Context =>
stub
}
- /** Create the local template dummy of given class `cls`. */
+ /** Create the local template dummy of given class `cls`.
+ * In a template
+ *
+ * trait T { val fld: Int; { val x: int = 2 }; val fld2 = { val y = 2; y }}
+ *
+ * the owner of `x` is the local dummy of the template. The owner of the local
+ * dummy is then the class of the template itself. By contrast, the owner of `y`
+ * would be `fld2`. There is a single local dummy per template.
+ */
def newLocalDummy(cls: Symbol, coord: Coord = NoCoord) =
newSymbol(cls, nme.localDummyName(cls), EmptyFlags, NoType)