introduce tyInferred for the unbound concept type params

* Why is tyInferred needed?

The bindings in TCandidate are capable of inferring types within a single
call expression. In concepts, we need to infer types in the same way, but
across the whole body of the concept.

Previously, once a concept type param was inferred, it was destructively
mutated using t.assignType, but this proved to be problematic in the presence
of overloads, because the bindings established while a non-matching overload
is tested must be reverted/forgotten. tyInferred offers a non-destructive way to
keep track of the inference progress.

While introducing new types usually requires a lot of code paths in the compiler
to updated, currently tyInferred is only a short-lived type within the concept body
pass and it's unlikely to introduce breakage elsewhere in the compiler.
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Zahary Karadjov
2016-08-02 01:15:46 +03:00
parent 815724db71
commit 8cd5f1f8f5
9 changed files with 126 additions and 96 deletions

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@@ -323,7 +323,6 @@ proc isOpImpl(c: PContext, n: PNode): PNode =
maybeLiftType(t2, c, n.info)
var m: TCandidate
initCandidate(c, m, t2)
discard inferTypeClassParam(m, t1, rhsOrigType)
let match = typeRel(m, t2, t1) >= isSubtype # isNone
result = newIntNode(nkIntLit, ord(match))