Parameterizing on incomplete types

[Per Bothner]

On 12/01/2011 01:05 AM, Per Bothner wrote:
> The attached patch solved the name-lookup part of the problem.

I checked in the patch.

> I now get:
>
> string>:1:27: type parameter T must extend Object which is incompatible
> with Foo
>
> This is because we haven't set yet Foo's supertypes. Of course this is
> nonsense in the special case of Object. I think we can fix the general
> case by moving the subtype test later, probably to InlineCalls.
> The tricky part is figuring out how to do the subtype test in InlineCalls.
>
> Worst case, we can special-case Object, and change teh general case to
> warnings.

I checked in a patch that effectively special-cases Object.
(Specifically, I added an "optimization" is ClassType#isSubclass.)
So we no longer get that error - now we just have to deal with

<string>:1:1: missing implementation for 
java.lang.Comparable.compareTo(T)int

How ambitious are you about getting into Deep Kawa Stuff? :-)
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