Override check does not account for match type.

[esse-byte]

minimized code

scala> case class Box[T](t: T)
// defined case class Box

scala> type Boxed[T <: Tuple] <: Tuple = T match {
     |   case Unit => Unit
     |   case h *: t => Box[h] *: Boxed[t]
     | }

scala> trait Cmp[T <: Tuple] { def cmp(t: T, b: Boxed[T]): Boolean }
// defined trait Cmp

scala> object UnitCmp extends Cmp[Unit] {
     |   def cmp(t: Unit, b: Unit): Boolean = true
     | }
2 |  def cmp(t: Unit, b: Unit): Boolean = true
  |      ^
  |error overriding method cmp in trait Cmp of type (t: Unit, b: Boxed[Unit]): Boolean;
  |  method cmp of type (t: Unit, b: Unit): Boolean has incompatible type
1 |object UnitCmp extends Cmp[Unit] {
  |       ^
  |object creation impossible, since def cmp(t: Unit, b: Boxed[Unit]): Boolean is not defined
  |(The class implements a member with a different type: def cmp(t: Unit, b: Unit): Boolean)

scala> object UnitCmp extends Cmp[Unit] {
     |   def cmp(t: Unit, b: Boxed[Unit]): Boolean = true
     | }
2 |  def cmp(t: Unit, b: Boxed[Unit]): Boolean = true
  |      ^
  |error overriding method cmp in trait Cmp of type (t: Unit, b: Boxed[Unit]): Boolean;
  |  method cmp of type (t: Unit, b: Unit): Boolean has incompatible type
1 |object UnitCmp extends Cmp[Unit] {
  |       ^
  |object creation impossible, since def cmp(t: Unit, b: Boxed[Unit]): Boolean is not defined
  |(The class implements a member with a different type: def cmp(t: Unit, b: Unit): Boolean)

expectation

I'm not sure if it is just the limitation of Match Type or a bug.

[odersky]

This is as intended but needs to be specced. We need to have a clause that a method A overrides a method B only if both the original types and the erased types conform (or, alternatively, original types and signatures, if we want to talk about that). The erasure of a match type is the erasure of its upper bound, which would be Any in the example.

[sjrd]

Hum, aren't bridges supposed to relieve us from the necessity that erased types have to conform? Today we can override a

def foo(x: T): Int

with a

def foo(x: Int): Int

when the class' type parameter is instantiated to Int in a subclass.

[Blaisorblade]

@odersky > We need to have a clause that a method A overrides a method B only if both the original types and the erased types conform (or, alternatively, original types and signatures, if we want to talk about that).

That's unexpected; if correct, IIUC, that might affect #7597 as well?

[odersky]

It's the signatures as seen from the subclass that matter here, not the erased types per se. Bridges
help us bridge the as-seen-from. If we would base overriding checks on full types, two things would happen:

• member resolution would become computationally a lot more expensive
• we'd lose the ability to refer to members of other compilation units via their signatures

Together, this would mean we'd have to start from scratch and write another compiler.