scala/scala — pull request #1979 by retronym (2013-01-26 16:01:11+00:00)
Title: [backport] Fix for SI-6206, inconsistency with apply.

Squashed commit of the following:

commit f6bbf85150cfd7e461989ec1d6765ff4b4aeba51
Author: Paul Phillips
Date: Mon Oct 1 09:10:45 2012 -0700

Fix for SI-6206, inconsistency with apply.

The code part of this patch is 100% written by retronym, who
apparently has higher standards than I do because I found it just
lying around in his repository. I think I'll go pick through his
trash and see if he's throwing away any perfectly good muffins.

I made the test case more exciting so as to feel useful.
(cherry picked from commit 267650cf9c3b07e360a59f3c5b70b37fea9de453)

Review by @paulp