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Assignment rules for properties/events/fields should account for generic receivers #1078

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jcouv opened this issue Apr 12, 2024 · 0 comments

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jcouv commented Apr 12, 2024

The spec says: "When a property or indexer declared in a struct_type is the target of an assignment, the instance expression associated with the property or indexer access shall be classified as a variable. If the instance expression is classified as a value, a binding-time error occurs." (in the Simple Assignment section).

But that rule should be tweaked in two ways:

  1. we should be checking the operand of the property, instead of the declaring type of the property
  2. we should check that the operand is not a reference type, rather than checking that it is a struct-type

Checking the operand is motivated by this example:

struct S
{
    public object P { get; set; }
}
interface I
{
    object P { get; set; }
}
class C
{
    static void M<T>()
        where T : struct, I
    {
        default(S).P = null; // error
        default(T).P = null; // should error here too
    }
}

Checking for "not a reference type" is motivated by this example:

struct S
{
    public object P { get; set; }
}
interface I
{
    object P { get; set; }
}
class C
{
    static void M<T>()
        where T : I
    {
        default(T).P = null; // should likely error here too (since T may be substituted with a struct)
    }
}

Note: the roslyn compiler has implemented the first change (checking the operand) but not the second one yet.

        /// <summary>
        /// SPEC: When a property or indexer declared in a struct-type is the target of an 
        /// SPEC: assignment, the instance expression associated with the property or indexer 
        /// SPEC: access must be classified as a variable. If the instance expression is 
        /// SPEC: classified as a value, a compile-time error occurs. Because of 7.6.4, 
        /// SPEC: the same rule also applies to fields.
        /// </summary>
        /// <remarks>
        /// NOTE: The spec fails to impose the restriction that the event receiver must be classified
        /// as a variable (unlike for properties - 7.17.1).  This seems like a bug, but we have
        /// production code that won't build with the restriction in place (see DevDiv #15674).
        /// </remarks>
        private static bool RequiresVariableReceiver(BoundExpression receiver, Symbol symbol)
        {
            return symbol.RequiresInstanceReceiver()
                && symbol.Kind != SymbolKind.Event
                && receiver?.Type?.IsValueType == true;
        }
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