future/sugar => syntax breaks with generics

[bluenote10]

Recently I'm getting all kinds of compilation errors when using the future/sugar => syntax. I now noticed that it is related to generic procs:

import sequtils
import sugar

proc tester[T](x: T) =
  let test = toSeq(0..5).map(i => newSeq[int]())

tester(1)

Error:

test.nim(7, 7) template/generic instantiation from here
test.nim(5, 32) template/generic instantiation from here
lib/system.nim(3559, 14) Error: cannot instantiate: 'T'

The expression does work when it appears in a non-generic context, and I'm pretty sure such code used to work before.

[Araq]

This is a though one. Can I have the commit that introduced the regression please?

[bluenote10]

I tried to find it, but even this is tough :). The exact example I have given also seems to fail with fairly old versions of Nim. I have some other variants of this failure, I'll have to see if I can bisect them. Maybe it isn't a regression after all, and I just happened to run into it much more often now...

[timotheecour]

@bluenote10 @Araq I doubt it ever worked; but my PR #8679 will fix this:

when defined(case2):
  import sequtils
  import sugar

  proc tester[T](x: T) =
    let test = toSeq(0..5).map(i => newSeq[int]())
    echo test

  tester(1)

when defined(case3):
  import sequtils
  proc tester[T](x: T) =
    let test = toSeq(0..5).map2(i => newSeq[int]()) # pending renaming map2 to map
    echo test

  tester(1)

rnim -d:case2 tests/nim/lambda/t01_lambda_exp3.nim
nim c --nimcache:/tmp/nim//nimcache/ -o:/tmp/nim//app -r -d:case2 tests/nim/lambda/t01_lambda_exp3.nim

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