2.8.0 - "method defined twice"

Nicholas Tung wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The following code is rejected in 2.8.0 with "method gettype is
> defined twice". I'm using the maven snapshot builds, so they should be
> pretty recent.
>
> def gettype(tpe : Type) : nodes.Type = gettype_inner(tpe)
> def gettype(tree : Tree) : nodes.Type = gettype_inner(tree.tpe)
>
> This is definitely supported in Java, and I thought it worked with
> some other Scala code I had...

Overloading isn't possible if Type and Tree are erased to the same type.

There is no problem with the following:-

object nodes { type Type = Int }

abstract class TypeBase
abstract class TreeBase

class C {
type Type <: TypeBase
type Tree <: TreeBase

def gettype(tpe : Type) : nodes.Type = error("")
def gettype(tree : Tree) : nodes.Type = error("")
}