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+package scala.reflect.makro
+
+trait Typers {
+ self: Context =>
+
+ import mirror._
+
+ /** Contexts that represent macros in-flight, including the current one. Very much like a stack trace, but for macros only.
+ * Can be useful for interoperating with other macros and for imposing compiler-friendly limits on macro expansion.
+ *
+ * Is also priceless for emitting sane error messages for macros that are called by other macros on synthetic (i.e. position-less) trees.
+ * In that dire case navigate the ``openMacros'' stack, and it will most likely contain at least one macro with a position-ful macro application.
+ * See ``enclosingPosition'' for a default implementation of this logic.
+ *
+ * Unlike `enclosingMacros`, this is a def, which means that it gets recalculated on every invocation,
+ * so it might change depending on what is going on during macro expansion.
+ */
+ def openMacros: List[Context]
+
+ /** Types along with corresponding trees for which implicit arguments are currently searched.
+ * Can be useful to get information about an application with an implicit parameter that is materialized during current macro expansion.
+ *
+ * Unlike `enclosingImplicits`, this is a def, which means that it gets recalculated on every invocation,
+ * so it might change depending on what is going on during macro expansion.
+ */
+ def openImplicits: List[(Type, Tree)]
+
+ /** Typechecks the provided tree against the expected type ``pt'' in the macro callsite context.
+ *
+ * If ``silent'' is false, ``TypeError'' will be thrown in case of a typecheck error.
+ * If ``silent'' is true, the typecheck is silent and will return ``EmptyTree'' if an error occurs.
+ * Such errors don't vanish and can be inspected by turning on -Ymacro-debug.
+ * Unlike in ``inferImplicitValue'' and ``inferImplicitView'', ``silent'' is false by default.
+ *
+ * Typechecking can be steered with the following optional parameters:
+ * ``withImplicitViewsDisabled'' recursively prohibits implicit views (though, implicit vals will still be looked up and filled in), default value is false
+ * ``withMacrosDisabled'' recursively prohibits macro expansions and macro-based implicits, default value is false
+ */
+ def typeCheck(tree: Tree, pt: Type = WildcardType, silent: Boolean = false, withImplicitViewsDisabled: Boolean = false, withMacrosDisabled: Boolean = false): Tree
+
+ /** Infers an implicit value of the expected type ``pt'' in the macro callsite context.
+ * Optional ``pos'' parameter provides a position that will be associated with the implicit search.
+ *
+ * If ``silent'' is false, ``TypeError'' will be thrown in case of an inference error.
+ * If ``silent'' is true, the typecheck is silent and will return ``EmptyTree'' if an error occurs.
+ * Such errors don't vanish and can be inspected by turning on -Xlog-implicits.
+ * Unlike in ``typeCheck'', ``silent'' is true by default.
+ */
+ def inferImplicitValue(pt: Type, silent: Boolean = true, withMacrosDisabled: Boolean = false, pos: Position = enclosingPosition): Tree
+
+ /** Infers an implicit view from the provided tree ``tree'' from the type ``from'' to the type ``to'' in the macro callsite context.
+ *
+ * Optional ``pos'' parameter provides a position that will be associated with the implicit search.
+ * Another optional parameter, ``reportAmbiguous`` controls whether ambiguous implicit errors should be reported.
+ * If we search for a view simply to find out whether one type is coercible to another, it might be desirable to set this flag to ``false''.
+ *
+ * If ``silent'' is false, ``TypeError'' will be thrown in case of an inference error.
+ * If ``silent'' is true, the typecheck is silent and will return ``EmptyTree'' if an error occurs.
+ * Such errors don't vanish and can be inspected by turning on -Xlog-implicits.
+ * Unlike in ``typeCheck'', ``silent'' is true by default.
+ */
+ def inferImplicitView(tree: Tree, from: Type, to: Type, silent: Boolean = true, withMacrosDisabled: Boolean = false, reportAmbiguous: Boolean = true, pos: Position = enclosingPosition): Tree
+
+ /** Recursively resets symbols and types in a given tree.
+ *
+ * Note that this does not revert the tree to its pre-typer shape.
+ * For more info, read up https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5464.
+ */
+ def resetAllAttrs[T <: Tree](tree: T): T
+
+ /** Recursively resets locally defined symbols and types in a given tree.
+ *
+ * Note that this does not revert the tree to its pre-typer shape.
+ * For more info, read up https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-5464.
+ */
+ def resetLocalAttrs[T <: Tree](tree: T): T
+
+ /** Represents an error during typechecking
+ */
+ type TypeError <: Throwable
+ val TypeError: TypeErrorExtractor
+ abstract class TypeErrorExtractor {
+ def unapply(error: TypeError): Option[(Position, String)]
+ }
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