Implicits to encourage more Name-dropping.

This creates implicits in cakes across the land from:

  String => TermName
  String => TypeName

And also from:

  Name => NameOps[Name]           // lower priority
  TermName => NameOps[TermName]
  TypeName => NameOps[TypeName]

What this is all about, using "drop" as a motivating example,
is that these should all work:

  "abc" drop 1                      // "bc": String
  ("abc": TermName) drop 1          // "bc": TermName
  ("abc": TypeName) drop 1          // "bc": TypeName
  (("abc": TypeName): Name) drop 1  // "bc": Name

But this should not:

  ("bc": Name)  // ambiguity error

This requires drop not being directly on Name; peer implicits
from String => TermName and String => TypeName; implicit
classes to install drop on TermName and TypeName; and a lower
priority implicit class to allow ops on Names.

Review by @xeno.by .

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala
index ccd346e72d..c675167139 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Typers.scala
@@ -4283,7 +4283,7 @@ trait Typers extends Modes with Adaptations with Tags {
       }
 
       def convertToAssignment(fun: Tree, qual: Tree, name: Name, args: List[Tree]): Tree = {
-        val prefix = name stripSuffix nme.EQL
+        val prefix = name.toTermName stripSuffix nme.EQL
         def mkAssign(vble: Tree): Tree =
           Assign(
             vble,