Fix type system logic for detecting if a type param can match itself. #2737
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This PR fixes type system logic for detecting if a type param can match itself.
For example, this snippet doesn't compile with current ponyc master, but should:
Note that this breaks a few methods in
Iter
that are actually capability-unsafe, so we have to figure out what to do about that. I'm marking as "DO NOT MERGE" and "needs discussion during sync" so we can discuss this aspect.This may be related to #2584, but I don't think it has the same problem as @Praetonus' solution in #2597. Note that my code example above doesn't have the issue of
None
being a possible subtype ofA
. As such, I don't think we have to wait for @Praetonus' RFC to merge this. Still, I'll ask @Praetonus to comment here if he can.This may also be related to #2646, which had a runtime segfault in
Iter.filter_stateful
, one of the methods found to be unsafe by this type system fix.