Add a rule to determine which extension types are always-exhaustive #3568
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.
Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.
Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.
Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.
You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.
Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.
This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.
Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.
Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.
Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.
Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
See #3524 (comment) for background information.
This PR adds a rule to the extension type feature specification, specifying that an extension type is always-exhaustive if and only if its instantiated representation type is always-exhaustive (note that this rule may be applied repeatedly because the representation type could itself be an extension type).
Example:
It is my understanding that this behavior has already been implemented (perhaps it was implemented like that all the time), so there should not be any implementation effort associated with this spec change.
We have (or will have) language tests about this as well, so it should be detected if it is not true that this behavior is implemented already.