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Match type syntax does not allow writing type patterns for type members directly

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#13.416 aberto em 29 de ago. de 2021

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Description

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trait RDF {
  type Triple
}
object RDF {
  type Triple[R <: RDF] = R match {
    case (RDF { type Triple = t }) => t
  }
  type GetTriple[T] = RDF { type Triple = T }
}

Output

Not found: type t

Expectation

Expected to be able to extract a variable type from inside a type refinement.

This syntax limit can be worked around by introducing a "pattern type":

trait RDF {
  type Triple
}
object RDF {
  type Triple[R <: RDF] = R match {
    case GetTriple[t] => t
  }
  type GetTriple[T] = RDF { type Triple = T }
}

Why write something like that? Apparently this pattern of extracting a field using a match type can substitute for some usages of generalized type projections and is enough to port some of the libraries using type projections, e.g. https://github.com/bblfish/banana-play

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