Fix issue where reify would do the same lookup twice #3392
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This is not a functional bug. The recursive form of reify for Element would use the .topBinding from the wrong argument, so it would recurse an extra time, but it would ultimately converge to the right value.
This is really subtle and I don't think it's even possible to write a test for it (other than by adding a side effect to reify but that would be insane).
It is a very slight, probably unmeasurable, performance improvement.
The way I convinced myself that the problem happened and was fixed was with the following example code:
then add
println(s"reify on $elt")
as the first statement in the fixed function you'll see:You can see a little double reify there, with this fix you get:
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