Disallow existentially bound parameters as type parameters

Done in order to keep the basics as simple as possible.
Treating existentially bound parameters as still instantiatable type
parameters does not seem to add anything fundamental, and makes the
type system less regular.

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/tests/pickling/partialApplications.scala b/tests/pickling/partialApplications.scala
index f517011b9..c4c4328f6 100644
--- a/tests/pickling/partialApplications.scala
+++ b/tests/pickling/partialApplications.scala
@@ -1,13 +1,29 @@
-object PartialApplications {
+object partialApplications {
 
-  type Histogram = Map[_, Int]
+  type Histogram[X] = Map[X, Int]
 
-  type StringlyHistogram = Histogram[_ >: String]
+  type StringlyHistogram[X >: String] = Histogram[X]
 
   val xs: Histogram[String] = Map[String, Int]()
 
   val ys: StringlyHistogram[String] = xs
 
-  val zs: StringlyHistogram = xs
+  def e = xs
+
+  val zs: StringlyHistogram[_] = e
+
+  type IntMap[Y] = Map[Int, Y]
+
+  val is = Map[Int, Boolean]()
+
+  val js: IntMap[Boolean] = is
+
+  val ks: IntMap[_] = is
+
+  type RMap[X, Y] = Map[Y, X]
+
+  val rs = Map[Int, Float]()
+
+  val ss: RMap[Float, Int] = rs
 
 }