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Denis Zharkov 406e31f54a Change default rules for declaration-site wildcards
Mostly this commit is about skipping wildcards that are redundant in some sense.
The motivation is that they looks `long` in Java code.

There are basically two important parts: return types and value parameters.

1. For return types default behaviour is skipping all declaration-site wildcards.
The intuition behind this rule is simple: return types are basically used in subtype position
(as an argument for another call), and here everything works well in case of 'out'-variance.
For example we have 'Out<Out<T>>>' as subtype both for 'Out<Out<T>>>' and 'Out<? extends Out<? extends T>>>',
so values of such type is more flexible in contrast to `Out<? extends Out<? extends T>>>` that could be used only
for the second case.

But we have choosen to treat `in`-variance in a different way: argument itself
should be rendered without wildcard while nested arguments are rendered by the rules
described further (see second part).

For example: 'In<Out<OpenClass>>' will have generic signature 'In<Out<? extends OpenClass>>'.
If we omit all wildcards here, then value of type 'In<Out<OpenClass>>'
will be impossible to use as argument for function expecting 'In<? super Out<? extends Derived>>'
where Derived <: OpenClass (you can check it manually :]).

And this exception should not be very inconvinient because in-variance is rather rare.

2. For value parameters we decided to skip wildcards if it doesn't make obtained signature weaker
in a sense of set of acceptable arguments.

More precisely:
    a. We write wildcard for 'Out<T>' iff T ``can have subtypes ignoring nullability''
    b. We write wildcard for 'In<T>' iff T is not equal to it's class upper bound (ignoring nullability again)

Definition of ``can have subtypes ignoring nullability'' is straightforward and you can see it in commit.

 #KT-9801 Fixed
 #KT-9890 Fixed
2015-12-01 08:20:59 +03:00

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interface A {
fun foo(): Collection<Any>
}
abstract class B : A {
override fun foo(): Collection<String> = null!!
}
fun box(): String {
val clazz = B::class.java
if (clazz.declaredMethods.first().genericReturnType.toString() != "java.util.Collection<java.lang.String>") return "fail 1"
if (clazz.methods.filter { it.name == "foo" }.size != 1) return "fail 2"
return "OK"
}