typing: warn `useless-type` for useless type in a local variable

[nit.git] / src / semantize / typing.nit

diff --git a/src/semantize/typing.nit b/src/semantize/typing.nit
index 3140de5..cdb8ae8 100644 (file)
--- a/src/semantize/typing.nit
+++ b/src/semantize/typing.nit
@@ -668,7 +668,11 @@ redef class AVardeclExpr
                var nexpr = self.n_expr
                if nexpr != null then
                        if mtype != null then
-                               v.visit_expr_subtype(nexpr, mtype)
+                               var etype = v.visit_expr_subtype(nexpr, mtype)
+                               if etype == mtype then
+                                       assert ntype != null
+                                       v.modelbuilder.advice(ntype, "useless-type", "Warning: useless type definition for variable `{variable.name}`")
+                               end
                        else
                                mtype = v.visit_expr(nexpr)
                                if mtype == null then return # Skip error