Merge pull request #8937 from Vindaar/fixes-8925

fix #8925 by using `getTypeInst` instead of `getType`

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/pure/strscans.nim b/lib/pure/strscans.nim
index 734317e67..77763ff43 100644
--- a/lib/pure/strscans.nim
+++ b/lib/pure/strscans.nim
@@ -317,8 +317,8 @@ macro scanf*(input: string; pattern: static[string]; results: varargs[typed]): b
 
   template at(s: string; i: int): char = (if i < s.len: s[i] else: '\0')
   template matchError() =
-    error("type mismatch between pattern '$" & pattern[p] & "' (position: " & $p & ") and " & repr(getType(results[i])) &
-          " var '" & repr(results[i]) & "'")
+    error("type mismatch between pattern '$" & pattern[p] & "' (position: " & $p &
+      ") and " & $getTypeInst(results[i]) & " var '" & repr(results[i]) & "'")
 
   var i = 0
   var p = 0
diff --git a/tests/stdlib/t8925.nim b/tests/stdlib/t8925.nim
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d3dc1ea86
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/stdlib/t8925.nim
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+discard """
+  file: "strscans.nim"
+  errormsg: "type mismatch between pattern '$i' (position: 1) and HourRange var 'hour'"
+"""
+
+import strscans
+
+type
+  HourRange = range[0..23]
+
+var
+  hour: HourRange
+  timeStr: string
+
+if scanf(timeStr, "$i", hour):
+  discard