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Pattern matching should decide on how to deal with restricted types #27851

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OmarTawfik opened this issue Jun 14, 2018 · 2 comments
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Pattern matching should decide on how to deal with restricted types #27851

OmarTawfik opened this issue Jun 14, 2018 · 2 comments
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Area-Compilers Concept-Design Debt Engineering Debt, Design Debt, or poor product code quality New Language Feature - Pattern Matching Pattern Matching

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A recent bug (#27803) revealed how pattern matching interacts with restricted types in interesting ways (when doing type checks).
We should discuss with LDM on whether this should be banned (like pointer types), and if there are actual use cases that need it.
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cc @gafter

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gafter commented Jun 14, 2018

Added the following to dotnet/csharplang#1054

Restricted types

A recent bug (#27803) revealed how pattern matching interacts with restricted types in interesting ways (when doing type checks).
We should discuss with LDM on whether this should be banned (like pointer types), and if there are actual use cases that need it.

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