Make analyzer resilient to type checking errors in record fields #5033
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Short summary of issue
When a record field definition refers to an unknown type, the errors you get when using that record always claim that record field doesn't exist, including claiming the record has one less field:
results in:
Solution
Ideally, compiler should not ignore a record field where type checking failed. So a solution is to report the error, but put unbound type variable, instead of skipping the field. This practice is already used in other parts of analyzer. For instance:
gleam/compiler-core/src/analyse.rs
Lines 1529 to 1554 in 03bfad9
This is a code for processing function arguments, analyzer puts unbound variable as placeholder for invalid type.
Output after fix:
This PR also affects test for exhaustiveness, specifically:
Which I believe is ok and is actually also relevant in relation to the issue. Before the fix, the record field
Absent
was skipped, now it isn't.