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* SI-8597 Improved pattern unchecked warningsJason Zaugg2014-11-091-0/+1
The spec says that `case _: List[Int]` should be always issue an unchecked warning: > Types which are not of one of the forms described above are > also accepted as type patterns. However, such type patterns > will be translated to their erasure (§3.7). The Scala compiler > will issue an “unchecked” warning for these patterns to flag > the possible loss of type-safety. But the implementation goes a little further to omit warnings based on the static type of the scrutinee. As a trivial example: def foo(s: Seq[Int]) = s match { case _: List[Int] => } need not issue this warning. These discriminating unchecked warnings are domain of `CheckabilityChecker`. Let's deconstruct the reported bug: def nowarn[T] = (null: Any) match { case _: Some[T] => } We used to determine that if the first case matched, the scrutinee type would be `Some[Any]` (`Some` is covariant). If this statically matches `Some[T]` in a pattern context, we don't need to issue an unchecked warning. But, our blanket use of `existentialAbstraction` in `matchesPattern` loosened the pattern type to `Some[Any]`, and the scrutinee type was deemed compatible. I've added a new method, `scrutConformsToPatternType` which replaces pattern type variables by wildcards, but leaves other abstract types intact in the pattern type. We have to use this inside `CheckabilityChecker` only. If we were to make `matchesPattern` stricter in the same way, tests like `pos/t2486.scala` would fail. I have introduced a new symbol test to (try to) identify pattern type variables introduced by `typedBind`. Its not pretty, and it might be cleaner to reserve a new flag for these. I've also included a test variation exercising with nested matches. The pattern type of the inner case can't, syntactically, refer to the pattern type variable of the enclosing case. If it could, we would have to be more selective in our wildcarding in `ptMatchesPatternType` by restricting ourselves to type variables associated with the closest enclosing `CaseDef`. As some further validation of the correctness of this patch, four stray warnings have been teased out of neg/unchecked-abstract.scala I also had to changes `typeArgsInTopLevelType` to extract the type arguments of `Array[T]` if `T` is an abstract type. This avoids the "Checkability checker says 'Uncheckable', but uncheckable type cannot be found" warning and consequent overly lenient analysis. Without this change, the warning was suppressed for: def warnArray[T] = (null: Any) match { case _: Array[T] => }