External Issue: Methods can be defined on variables

Notifications Issues
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20259, "ghbrown", "Methods can be defined on variables", "2022-07-19T21:19:49Z"

Summary of Problem

Methods can be defined on variable instances of records, but you should only be able to define them on types.

Steps to Reproduce

Brad's minimal working/failing example given on the Discourse:

record R {
}

var myR: R;

// this is OK, since R is a type
proc R.foo() {
  writeln("In foo()");
}

// this shouldn't be OK, myR is a value
proc myR.bar() {
  writeln("In bar()");
}

myR.foo();
myR.bar();

Compile command:
chpl

Configuration Information

using packaged version on Arch

chpl version 1.28.0 pre-release (c95e180325)
built with LLVM version 14.0.6