unhelpful error message when trying to use storage.get<T> with primitives

[janedegtiareva]

steps to repro:
try to build a contract which contains this line
storage.getPrimitive<i32>("counter")

expected behavior:
some error which references the problematic line in source

actual behavior:
The compiler output is an assertion failure without a reference to a line in source code:

AssertionError: assertion failed
at n.assert (/Users/evgueniadegtiareva/near/NEARStudio/templates/node_modules/assemblyscript/dist/asc.js:1:698370)
at e.asNullable (/Users/evgueniadegtiareva/near/NEARStudio/templates/node_modules/assemblyscript/dist/assemblyscript.js:1:129907)