Re: weirdness in typechecking call on overloaded java method

"Jason Kinzer" <jmkinzer@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> I've stumbled upon a typing issue I'm at a loss to explain. Following is a
> minimal test case:
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> // ScalaMenuTest.scala
> object ScalaMenuTest {
>   def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
>     val v = new javax.swing.JMenu()
>     v.add(new javax.swing.JMenuItem())
>     //v.add(new java.awt.PopupMenu());
>   }
> }
> 
> //==> compiling with scalac2 results in
> //
> // found   : javax.swing.JMenuItem
> // required: java.awt.PopupMenu
> //    v.add(new javax.swing.JMenuItem())
> //          ^
> //one error found
> ---------------------------------------------

There have been problems like this, but your example compiles for
me using version 2.0.5843 and 2.0.5774 .  Can you check your
version (scalac -version), and upgrade if it is older than these?

Otherwise, maybe it is environmental.  I am using a 1.5 Sun SDK.

-Lex