1

At first I want to show code example:

public struct Some<Type> {
    private let instance: Type?

    public enum Error: Swift.Error {
        case some(instance: Type?)
    }

    public init(_ instance: Type?) {
        self.instance = instance
    }

    public func make() throws {
        throw Error.some(instance: instance)
    }
}

And:

do {
    try Some("String").make()
} catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
    print("\(instance)")
} catch { }

The code above will run your swift build forever, and only way to stop it is force quit swift process using Activity Monitor. I understand that the following code shouldn't work, even in theory, but in my opinion there should be some kind of compile time error or something.

And also I should mention that if we remove this part:

do {
    try Some("String").make()
} catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
    print("\(instance)")
} catch { }

Or at least replace it with:

do {
    try Some("String").make()
} catch {
}

Everything goes ok. There is no even compile-time error, which is strange.

2

A quick search didn't turn up a bug for that so would you mind filing a new one at https://bugs.swift.org please?

3

Sure, I'll do that

4

This doesn't seem to hang on top-of-tree:

/tmp/t.swift:20:21: error: generic enum type 'Some.Error' is ambiguous without explicit generic parameters when matching value of type 'Error'
        } catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
                           ^
/tmp/t.swift:19:3: error: errors thrown from here are not handled because the enclosing catch is not exhaustive
                try Some("String").make()
                ^
5

Sorry, It seems like I forgot to add another catch to the example. The final version should look like this:

do {
    try Some("String").make()
} catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
    print("\(instance)")
} catch { }
6

That generates the following with top-of-tree:

/tmp/t.swift:20:22: error: generic enum type 'Some.Error' is ambiguous without explicit generic parameters when matching value of type 'Error'
  } catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
                     ^
7

Hmm... It looks strange. Can you please check my Example GitHub - Karetski/ExampleSwiftInfiniteCompile to build?

8

Still fails. NOTE: ~/s/u/dt/bin/swift is a freshly built RelWithDebInfo build.

dell:/tmp 0 $ git clone https://github.com/Karetski/Example
Cloning into 'Example'...
remote: Counting objects: 13, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done.
remote: Total 13 (delta 1), reused 13 (delta 1), pack-reused 0
Unpacking objects: 100% (13/13), done.
dell:/tmp 0 $ cd Example/
dell:/tmp/Example 0 $ ~/s/u/dt/bin/swift ./Example.swift 
./Example.swift:19:20: error: generic enum type 'Some.Error' is ambiguous without explicit generic parameters when matching value of type 'Error'
} catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
                   ^
./Example.swift:18:5: warning: no calls to throwing functions occur within 'try' expression
    try Some("String").make()
    ^
./Example.swift:19:3: warning: 'catch' block is unreachable because no errors are thrown in 'do' block
} catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
  ^
./Example.swift:13:9: error: error is not handled because the enclosing function is not declared 'throws'
        throw Error.some(instance: instance)
        ^
dell:/tmp/Example 1 $ ~/s/u/dt/bin/swift ./Sources/Example/Example.swift 
./Sources/Example/Example.swift:21:28: error: generic enum type 'Some.Error' is ambiguous without explicit generic parameters when matching value of type 'Error'
        } catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
                           ^
dell:/tmp/Example 1 $
9

Seems like this issue was fixed recently, since I'm using the version that is supplied with Xcode 9.2 on macOS 10.13.3:

Alexeys-MacBook-Pro:Example Karetski$ swift --version
Apple Swift version 4.0.3 (swiftlang-900.0.74.1 clang-900.0.39.2)
Target: x86_64-apple-macosx10.9

Or maybe there could be some other reasons? I'm not so experienced in this question.

10

I see the following even when just open Xcode project of this package

09
091346×122 16.6 KB

11

Tried to reproduce the same issue on:

Apple Swift version 4.1 (swiftlang-902.0.48 clang-902.0.37.1)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin17.5.0

And it looks like it was fixed

Compile Swift Module 'Example' (1 sources)
/Users/Karetski/Developer/ExampleSwiftInfiniteCompile/Sources/Example/Example.swift:21:28: error: generic enum type 'Some.Error' is ambiguous without explicit generic parameters when matching value of type 'Error'
        } catch Some.Error.some(let instance) {
                           ^
error: terminated(1): /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/swift-build-tool -f /Users/Karetski/Developer/ExampleSwiftInfiniteCompile/.build/debug.yaml main output: