On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Richard Smith <[email protected]>wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Eli Friedman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 3:09 PM, Reid Kleckner <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> For a Type held by an AST node, I completely agree, and I'll try to
> >> address that.  For a type held by a TypeSourceInfo, I disagree, the
> >> FunctionProtoType should really hold the undecayed parameter types.
> >
> >
> > Hmm... I was thinking more along the lines of keeping around the
> un-decayed
> > type, but automatically decaying it for the user of the API unless they
> > explicitly request the un-decayed version.  I'm not sure I like keeping
> > different versions of the type in the AST nodes vs. TypeSourceInfo.
>
> I have an alternative suggestion: introduce a DecayedType sugar node,
> which is canonically the decayed pointer type, but also provides
> access to the undecayed (array or function) type.


I really like this strategy. It matches the architecture in lots of other
places as well where we use sugar to denote the type as-written when
distinct from the type as-canonically-used.
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