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Why does type-alias behaviour change with 2.9?

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Mon, 2011-08-08, 02:50
Tony Morris 2
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The following source file fails to compile with 2.9 but compiles just
fine with 2.8. All it takes is the introduction of a type-annotation
that aliases the inferred type to fail the compiler. This makes me
boggle a little -- is it expected behaviour?

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/454488/

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Mon, 2011-08-08, 10:47
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adriaanm
Joined: 2010-02-08,
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Re: Why does type-alias behaviour change with 2.9?
fixed in 2.9.1
cheersadriaan

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:50 AM, Tony Morris <tonymorris@gmail.com> wrote:
The following source file fails to compile with 2.9 but compiles just
fine with 2.8. All it takes is the introduction of a type-annotation
that aliases the inferred type to fail the compiler. This makes me
boggle a little -- is it expected behaviour?

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/454488/

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Tony Morris
http://tmorris.net/



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