Standalone Arkouda `ContrivedConstructor` caused compiler to throw unreasonable promotion/parameness error

[alvaradoo]

Summary of Problem

Description: When hacking together some code from the Arkouda coargsort module to work in a standalone Chapel file, an incorrect call to A.type instead of A.eltType caused the Arkouda ContrivedConstructor to have weird typing that made the compiler throw a promotion/paramness error that was not expected.

Is this issue currently blocking your progress? Nope.

Steps to Reproduce

Source Code: Link to commit and branch.

Compile command: chpl graph.chpl

Execution command: ./graph -nl 2

Associated Future Test(s):

Configuration Information

• Output of chpl --version:

  chpl version 2.0.0
  built with LLVM version 15.0.7

• Output of $CHPL_HOME/util/printchplenv --anonymize:

  CHPL_TARGET_PLATFORM: darwin
  CHPL_TARGET_COMPILER: llvm
  CHPL_TARGET_ARCH: arm64
  CHPL_TARGET_CPU: unknown
  CHPL_LOCALE_MODEL: flat
  CHPL_COMM: gasnet *
  CHPL_COMM_SUBSTRATE: udp
  CHPL_GASNET_SEGMENT: everything
  CHPL_TASKS: qthreads
  CHPL_LAUNCHER: amudprun
  CHPL_TIMERS: generic
  CHPL_UNWIND: none
  CHPL_MEM: jemalloc
  CHPL_ATOMICS: cstdlib
  CHPL_NETWORK_ATOMICS: none
  CHPL_GMP: system *
  CHPL_HWLOC: bundled
  CHPL_RE2: bundled *
  CHPL_LLVM: system *
  CHPL_AUX_FILESYS: none

• Back-end compiler and version, e.g. gcc --version or clang --version:

  Apple clang version 15.0.0 (clang-1500.3.9.4)
  Target: arm64-apple-darwin23.1.0
  Thread model: posix

[lydia-duncan]

I've tied this as compiler due to the interaction with promotion handling and libraries/modules due to it being the Sort module that triggered the issue in this particular case