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drops the redundant typecheck of blackbox expansions
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While fixing the problem with the order of typechecks for whitebox expansions,
I realized that we’re doing redundant work when expanding blackbox macros.
Concretely, typechecking blackbox expansions looked as follows:

  val expanded1 = atPos(enclosingMacroPosition.focus)(Typed(expanded0, TypeTree(innerPt)))
  val expanded2 = typecheck("blackbox typecheck #1", expanded1, innerPt)
  typecheck("blackbox typecheck #2", expanded1, outerPt)

Or, if we reformulate it using quasiquotes (temporarily not taking
positions into account, since they aren’t important here):

  val expanded2 = typed(q”$expanded: $innerPt”, innerPt)
  typed(expanded2, outerPt)

In this formulation, it becomes apparent that the first typecheck is
redundant. If something is ascribed with some type, then typechecking
the ascription against that type does nothing useful.

This is also highlights one of the reasons why it would be really nice
to have quasiquotes used in the compiler. With them, it’s easy to notice
things that would otherwise remain buried behind swaths of boilerplate.
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xeno-by committed Dec 10, 2013
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3 changes: 1 addition & 2 deletions src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/typechecker/Macros.scala
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Expand Up @@ -635,8 +635,7 @@ trait Macros extends FastTrack with MacroRuntimes with Traces with Helpers {

if (isBlackbox(expandee)) {
val expanded1 = atPos(enclosingMacroPosition.focus)(Typed(expanded0, TypeTree(innerPt)))
val expanded2 = typecheck("blackbox typecheck #1", expanded1, innerPt)
typecheck("blackbox typecheck #2", expanded1, outerPt)
typecheck("blackbox typecheck", expanded1, outerPt)
} else {
val expanded1 = expanded0
val expanded2 = typecheck("whitebox typecheck #1", expanded1, outerPt)
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