Review request for JDK-7118412: Shadowing of type-variables vs. member types

[Eric McCorkle]

I hit a couple of corner cases with the regression tests mid last week.
 Expect another update sometime in the near future.

On 05/21/13 06:36, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
> On 21/05/13 11:35, Maurizio Cimadamore wrote:
>> Fix looks nice - only bit that seems suspicious is the check for
>>
>> sym == null
>>
>> The symbol could be different than null, but still not be a 'valid'
>> symbol (i.e. because it's an error). Actually, a lookup should never
>> return a null symbol. I suggest you return the 'bestSoFar' (which
>> would be typeNotFound') and then use the useful method Symbol.exists()
>> which should do what you need (check if the symbol is a valid symbol).
>> I think in cases where the found symbol is inaccessible it's important
>> to stop and to log the error, you should not keep going recursively
>> until you find a correct symbol.
> The test also needs some work in order to match the combo test idiom (I
> should have sent you an example of such tests already).
> 
> Maurizio
>>
>> Maurizio
>>
>> On 15/05/13 16:32, Eric McCorkle wrote:
>>> I have updated this patch to correct the shadowing of type variables by
>>> both member and static member class definitions.
>>>
>>> I have also included an improved testing framework that exhaustively
>>> tests the possible combinations.
>>>
>>> Note that a CCC has been filed for this patch, as it changes the way
>>> that type names are resolved in the compiler.
>>>
>>> Please review and comment.
>>>
>>> On 05/07/13 13:14, Eric McCorkle wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> Please review this patch which fixes an issue with shadowing by type
>>>> variables.
>>>>
>>>> Note: despite the very small size of this patch, it makes changes to
>>>> the
>>>> way that types are resolved in scopes, thus it needs to be treated with
>>>> extreme care.  Please review it and the test I have included carefully.
>>>>
>>>> The webrev is here:
>>>> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~emc/7118412/webrew.00/
>>>>
>>>> The bug can be found here:
>>>> http://bugs.sun.com/view_bug.do?bug_id=7118412
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Eric
>>>>
>>
> 
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