Re: RC8 candidate for the first 2.8.0 beta

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:37 PM, David Pollak
wrote:
> Okay... the work-around is checked into the Lift repo.
>
> I say, "Ship RC8 as the beta" and we'll work through this (and likely other)
> issues during the beta period.
>
Sounds good. Thanks! -- Martin

> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:36 AM, martin odersky
> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 8:31 PM, David Pollak
>> wrote:
>> > I've written a work-around and am currently testing the code.... more in
>> > a
>> > few minutes.
>> >
>> If you can make it work, so much the better. To give some info: The
>> original ticket had a vararg parameter of the form List[_]* in a case
>> class. This caused type inference for the synthetic equals method
>> (which uses sameElements for varargs) to fail, because the existential
>> in List[_] made the problem underconstrained. The patch passed the
>> argument type explicitly as the type parameter. In the lift case, it
>> seems that this explicit type parameter violated some type bound, so
>> the type inferencer should have chosen a more general type which would
>> not violate the bound. The easiest fix is probably to just roll back
>> and leave ticket #2867 open until we find a better solution. That's
>> what I have done.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>>  -- Martin
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