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metagn 2d678fa45c better errors for standalone explicit generic instantiations (#24276)
refs #8064, refs #24010

Error messages for standalone explicit generic instantiations are
revamped. Failing standalone explicit generic instantiations now only
error after overloading has finished and resolved to the default `[]`
magic (this means `[]` can now be overloaded for procs but this isn't
necessarily intentional, in #24010 it was documented that it isn't
possible). The error messages for failed instantiations are also no
longer a simple `cannot instantiate: foo` message, instead they now give
the same type mismatch error message as overloads with mismatching
explicit generic parameters.

This is now possible due to the changes in #24010 that delegate all
explicit generic proc instantiations to overload resolution. Old code
that worked around this is now removed. `maybeInstantiateGeneric` could
maybe also be removed in favor of just `explicitGenericSym`, the `result
== n` case is due to `explicitGenericInstError` which is only for niche
cases.

Also, to cause "ambiguous identifier" error messages when the explicit
instantiation is a symchoice and the expression context doesn't allow
symchoices, we semcheck the sym/symchoice created by
`explicitGenericSym` with the given expression flags.

#8064 isn't entirely fixed because the error message is still misleading
for the original case which does `values[1]`, as a consequence of
#12664.

(cherry picked from commit 0a058a6b8f)
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Nim Compiler

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  • Note that this code has been translated from a bootstrapping version written in Pascal.
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