Closes #5452.

 Instead of trying to track the fallback attempts we rely on the
 context state to inform us which fallback is the last one.
 setError cannot always be called in NoBestMethodAlternativeError
 because inferMethodAlternative relies on side-effects.
 Review by @paulp.

1 files changed, 29 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/test/files/neg/t5452.scala b/test/files/neg/t5452.scala
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+// /scala/trac/5452/a.scala
+// Mon Feb 13 22:52:36 PST 2012
+
+// import scala.reflect.mirror._
+
+trait Tree
+
+object Bip {
+  def ??? = sys.error("")
+}
+import Bip._
+
+case class Queryable[T]() {
+  def treeFilter( t:Tree ) : Queryable[T] = ???
+}
+
+object Queryable {
+  def apply[T:Manifest] = ???
+  def apply[T:Manifest]( t:Tree ) = ???
+}
+
+trait CoffeesTable{
+  def sales : Int
+}
+
+object Test extends App{
+  val q = new Queryable[CoffeesTable]
+  Queryable[CoffeesTable](  q.treeFilter(null)  )
+}