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authorAntoine Gourlay <antoine@gourlay.fr>2014-07-31 17:52:13 +0200
committerAntoine Gourlay <antoine@gourlay.fr>2014-08-12 15:47:20 +0200
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SI-5691 lint warning when a type parameter shadows an existing type.
This adds a new lint warning for when a class/method/type-member's type parameter shadows an existing type: `-Xlint:type-parameter-shadow`. It excludes type parameters of synthetic methods (the user can't rename or remove those anyway), otherwise, for example, every case class triggers the warning. Also fixes a test that contained wrong java sources (that didn't even compile...), discovered thanks to the warning. --- This kind of errors shows up every now and then on the mailing-list, on stackoverflow, etc. so maybe a warning would be useful. I was afraid this would yield too many warnings for libraries that are heavy on type parameters, but no: running this on scalaz and shapeless HEAD (`v7.1.0-RC1-41-g1cc0a96` and `v2.0.0-M1-225-g78426a0` respectively) yields 44 warnings. None of them are false positives; they usually come from: - scalaz loving using `A` as type parameter, even several levels deep of parametrized classes/methods - or calling a type parameter that will hold a map `Map`, or similar, thus shadowing an existing type
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diff --git a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala
index 7440f69e93..d18348f51e 100644
--- a/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala
+++ b/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/TypeDiagnostics.scala
@@ -600,6 +600,23 @@ trait TypeDiagnostics {
)
}
+ // warn about class/method/type-members' type parameters that shadow types already in scope
+ def warnTypeParameterShadow(tparams: List[TypeDef], sym: Symbol): Unit =
+ if (settings.warnTypeParameterShadow && !isPastTyper && !sym.isSynthetic) {
+ def enclClassOrMethodOrTypeMember(c: Context): Context =
+ if (!c.owner.exists || c.owner.isClass || c.owner.isMethod || (c.owner.isType && !c.owner.isParameter)) c
+ else enclClassOrMethodOrTypeMember(c.outer)
+
+ val tt = tparams.filter(_.name != typeNames.WILDCARD).foreach { tp =>
+ // we don't care about type params shadowing other type params in the same declaration
+ enclClassOrMethodOrTypeMember(context).outer.lookupSymbol(tp.name, s => s != tp.symbol && s.hasRawInfo && reallyExists(s)) match {
+ case LookupSucceeded(_, sym2) => context.warning(tp.pos,
+ s"type parameter ${tp.name} defined in $sym shadows $sym2 defined in ${sym2.owner}. You may want to rename your type parameter, or possibly remove it.")
+ case _ =>
+ }
+ }
+ }
+
/** Report a type error.
*
* @param pos The position where to report the error