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Diffstat (limited to 'src/reflect/scala/reflect/internal/Symbols.scala')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/reflect/scala/reflect/internal/Symbols.scala | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/reflect/scala/reflect/internal/Symbols.scala b/src/reflect/scala/reflect/internal/Symbols.scala index 1dec11548f..5be479add0 100644 --- a/src/reflect/scala/reflect/internal/Symbols.scala +++ b/src/reflect/scala/reflect/internal/Symbols.scala @@ -1188,6 +1188,10 @@ trait Symbols extends api.Symbols { self: SymbolTable => * to generate a type of kind * * for a term symbol, its usual type. * See the tpe/tpeHK overrides in TypeSymbol for more. + * + * For type symbols, `tpe` is different than `info`. `tpe` returns a typeRef + * to the type symbol, `info` returns the type information of the type symbol, + * e.g. a ClassInfoType for classes or a TypeBounds for abstract types. */ def tpe: Type = info def tpeHK: Type = tpe |