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authormetagn <metagngn@gmail.com>2024-08-20 12:43:11 +0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2024-08-20 11:43:11 +0200
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allow `untyped` arguments to fail to compile in overload mismatch error (#23984)
fixes #8697, fixes #9620, fixes #23265

When matching a `template` with an `untyped` argument fails because of a
mismatching typed argument, `presentFailedCandidates` tries to sem every
single argument to show their types, but trying to type the `untyped`
argument can fail if it's supposed to use an injected symbol, so we get
an unrelated error message like "undeclared identifier".

Instead we use `tryExpr` as the comment suggests, setting the type to
`untyped` if it fails to compile. We could also maybe check if an
`untyped` argument is expected in its place and not try to compile the
expression if it is but this would require a bit of reorganizing the
code here and IMO it's better to have the information of what type it
would be if it can be typed.
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