exposes absTypeTag and absTypeOf

to be symmetric with typeTag and typeOf.

this is especially important for macro development,
since only c.AbsTypeTag context bounds can be used on macro implementations

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/reflect/scala/reflect/macros/Aliases.scala b/src/reflect/scala/reflect/macros/Aliases.scala
index 46b7066902..ad100d7e89 100644
--- a/src/reflect/scala/reflect/macros/Aliases.scala
+++ b/src/reflect/scala/reflect/macros/Aliases.scala
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ trait Aliases {
   type TypeTag[T] = universe.TypeTag[T]
   val AbsTypeTag = universe.AbsTypeTag
   val TypeTag = universe.TypeTag
+  def absTypeTag[T](implicit attag: AbsTypeTag[T]) = attag
   def typeTag[T](implicit ttag: TypeTag[T]) = ttag
+  def absTypeOf[T](implicit attag: AbsTypeTag[T]): Type = attag.tpe
   def typeOf[T](implicit ttag: TypeTag[T]): Type = ttag.tpe
 }