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5 changes: 2 additions & 3 deletions compiler/src/dotty/tools/dotc/core/NameKinds.scala
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Expand Up @@ -61,8 +61,7 @@ object NameKinds {
def infoString: String
}

/** The kind of SimpleNames */
val SimpleNameKind = new NameKind(UTF8) { self =>
object SimpleNameKind extends NameKind(UTF8) { self =>
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I think ultimately, we should just make the name registration thread-safe, it doesn't cost much and it's much easier to reason about than remembering which NameKinds have side-effects, etc.

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But this is another issue. The problem was not threading but the fact that the registration was not performed at all, since objects are lazy.

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Ah, I see, indeed that's different. If we had enums we could iterate over the namekinds to register them maybe :).

type ThisInfo = Info
val info = new Info
def mkString(underlying: TermName, info: ThisInfo) = unsupported("mkString")
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val ModuleClassName = new SuffixNameKind(OBJECTCLASS, "$", optInfoString = "ModuleClass")

/** A name together with a signature. Used in Tasty trees. */
val SignedName = new NameKind(63) {
object SignedName extends NameKind(63) {

case class SignedInfo(sig: Signature) extends Info {
override def toString = s"$infoString $sig"
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