cmd/compile: always accept 1.18 syntax but complain if not 1.18

This CL configures the parser to always accept 1.18 syntax
(type parameters, type instantiations, interface elements),
even when -lang is set to an earlier release.

Instead, the type checker looks for 1.18 operations and
complains if the language version is set to an earlier
release.

Doing these checks during type checking is necessary because it
it is possible to write "generic" code using pre-1.18 syntax;
for instance, an imported generic function may be implicitly
instantiated (as in imported.Max(2, 3)), or an imported constraint
interface may be embedded in an "ordinary" interface.

Fixes #47818.

Change-Id: I83ec302b3f4ba7196c0a4743c03670cfb901310d
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/344871
Trust: Robert Griesemer <gri@golang.org>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Dempsky <mdempsky@google.com>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/resolver.go b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/resolver.go
index 018a20cfb2..34fbc3d41b 100644
--- a/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/resolver.go
+++ b/src/cmd/compile/internal/types2/resolver.go
@@ -412,52 +412,60 @@ func (check *Checker) collectObjects() {
 				}
 
 			case *syntax.TypeDecl:
+				if len(s.TParamList) != 0 && !check.allowVersion(pkg, 1, 18) {
+					check.softErrorf(s.TParamList[0], "type parameters require go1.18 or later")
+				}
 				obj := NewTypeName(s.Name.Pos(), pkg, s.Name.Value, nil)
 				check.declarePkgObj(s.Name, obj, &declInfo{file: fileScope, tdecl: s})
 
 			case *syntax.FuncDecl:
-				d := s // TODO(gri) get rid of this
-				name := d.Name.Value
-				obj := NewFunc(d.Name.Pos(), pkg, name, nil)
-				if d.Recv == nil {
+				name := s.Name.Value
+				obj := NewFunc(s.Name.Pos(), pkg, name, nil)
+				hasTParamError := false // avoid duplicate type parameter errors
+				if s.Recv == nil {
 					// regular function
 					if name == "init" || name == "main" && pkg.name == "main" {
-						if d.TParamList != nil {
-							check.softErrorf(d, "func %s must have no type parameters", name)
+						if len(s.TParamList) != 0 {
+							check.softErrorf(s.TParamList[0], "func %s must have no type parameters", name)
+							hasTParamError = true
 						}
-						if t := d.Type; len(t.ParamList) != 0 || len(t.ResultList) != 0 {
-							check.softErrorf(d, "func %s must have no arguments and no return values", name)
+						if t := s.Type; len(t.ParamList) != 0 || len(t.ResultList) != 0 {
+							check.softErrorf(s, "func %s must have no arguments and no return values", name)
 						}
 					}
 					// don't declare init functions in the package scope - they are invisible
 					if name == "init" {
 						obj.parent = pkg.scope
-						check.recordDef(d.Name, obj)
+						check.recordDef(s.Name, obj)
 						// init functions must have a body
-						if d.Body == nil {
+						if s.Body == nil {
 							// TODO(gri) make this error message consistent with the others above
 							check.softErrorf(obj.pos, "missing function body")
 						}
 					} else {
-						check.declare(pkg.scope, d.Name, obj, nopos)
+						check.declare(pkg.scope, s.Name, obj, nopos)
 					}
 				} else {
 					// method
 					// d.Recv != nil
-					if !acceptMethodTypeParams && len(d.TParamList) != 0 {
+					if !acceptMethodTypeParams && len(s.TParamList) != 0 {
 						//check.error(d.TParamList.Pos(), invalidAST + "method must have no type parameters")
-						check.error(d, invalidAST+"method must have no type parameters")
+						check.error(s.TParamList[0], invalidAST+"method must have no type parameters")
+						hasTParamError = true
 					}
-					ptr, recv, _ := check.unpackRecv(d.Recv.Type, false)
+					ptr, recv, _ := check.unpackRecv(s.Recv.Type, false)
 					// (Methods with invalid receiver cannot be associated to a type, and
 					// methods with blank _ names are never found; no need to collect any
 					// of them. They will still be type-checked with all the other functions.)
 					if recv != nil && name != "_" {
 						methods = append(methods, methodInfo{obj, ptr, recv})
 					}
-					check.recordDef(d.Name, obj)
+					check.recordDef(s.Name, obj)
+				}
+				if len(s.TParamList) != 0 && !check.allowVersion(pkg, 1, 18) && !hasTParamError {
+					check.softErrorf(s.TParamList[0], "type parameters require go1.18 or later")
 				}
-				info := &declInfo{file: fileScope, fdecl: d}
+				info := &declInfo{file: fileScope, fdecl: s}
 				// Methods are not package-level objects but we still track them in the
 				// object map so that we can handle them like regular functions (if the
 				// receiver is invalid); also we need their fdecl info when associating