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r: 129670
b: refs/heads/master
c: fd278a8
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

Author: huonw

[refs]

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 2e4a21c2c2cc0702044dabf11d0839e4ed65a079
+refs/heads/master: fd278a892a9bb27fbe274d7cb472bc7e4ca0c1b3
 refs/heads/snap-stage1: e33de59e47c5076a89eadeb38f4934f58a3618a6
 refs/heads/snap-stage3: 602592675ce86aeca465c4ac748cee2bff291443
 refs/heads/try: 55c1a67fa1eb621bb8e73e0b13af2823391eb1be

trunk/src/librustc/middle/typeck/check/mod.rs

@@ -2184,10 +2184,15 @@ fn lookup_method_for_for_loop(fcx: &FnCtxt,
     let method_type = match method {
         Some(ref method) => method.ty,
         None => {
-            fcx.tcx().sess.span_err(iterator_expr.span,
-                                    format!("`for` loop expression has type `{}` which does \
-                                             not implement the `Iterator` trait",
-                                            fcx.infcx().ty_to_string(expr_type)).as_slice());
+            let true_expr_type = fcx.infcx().resolve_type_vars_if_possible(expr_type);
+
+            if !ty::type_is_error(true_expr_type) {
+                let ty_string = fcx.infcx().ty_to_string(true_expr_type);
+                fcx.tcx().sess.span_err(iterator_expr.span,
+                                        format!("`for` loop expression has type `{}` which does \
+                                                 not implement the `Iterator` trait",
+                                                ty_string).as_slice());
+            }
             ty::mk_err()
         }
     };

trunk/src/test/compile-fail/for-loop-type-error.rs

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// Copyright 2014 The Rust Project Developers. See the COPYRIGHT
+// file at the top-level directory of this distribution and at
+// http://rust-lang.org/COPYRIGHT.
+//
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 <LICENSE-APACHE or
+// http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0> or the MIT license
+// <LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT>, at your
+// option. This file may not be copied, modified, or distributed
+// except according to those terms.
+
+pub fn main() {
+    let x = () + (); //~ ERROR binary operation
+
+    // this shouldn't have a flow-on error:
+    for _ in x {}
+}