racket / racket/rhombus

Annotation alias has unclear error with `class.together`

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Description

This produces expansion time error, ?: annotation static information needed before completed in: name

annot.macro 'E': 'Int || C || D'

class.together:
  class C(c :: List.of(E))
  class D(d :: E)

This works though

annot.macro 'E': 'Int || C || D'

class.together:
  class C(c :: List.of(Int || C || D))
  class D(d :: E)

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the two annotation-macro examples and compare expansion behavior for class.together. Trace where the first example reports the expansion-time error and determine what diagnostic or expansion behavior should result; done means the unclear error is resolved without breaking the working form.

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compilers
Issue type
Bug
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4/5
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3-5 days
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