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@noti0na1 noti0na1 requested a review from olhotak August 25, 2025 13:13
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bishabosha commented Aug 25, 2025

didnt this already ship in Scala 3.5?

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didnt this already ship in Scala 3.5?

The implementation has been shipped. The core team is asking for a SIP to finalize the tag in TASTy. See the discussion at: scala/scala3#23682

@noti0na1 noti0na1 marked this pull request as ready for review September 11, 2025 12:26
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@noti0na1 noti0na1 changed the title SIP-XX - Flexible Types in TASTy format SIP-XX - Adding Flexible Types as Internal Type to Scala 3 Spec Sep 11, 2025
#### Type Erasure (Extension to §3.8)

The erased type of `T?` is the erased type of the underlying type `T`.
Erasure is extended with: `|T?| = |T|` (i.e., identical to the erasure of its underlying type).
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What happens if T is Int, or any other really-non-nullable primitive type?

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I have updated the Type Erasure section to explain the choice.

@bracevac bracevac changed the title SIP-XX - Adding Flexible Types as Internal Type to Scala 3 Spec SIP-73 - Adding Flexible Types as Internal Type to Scala 3 Spec Sep 16, 2025
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