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Christopher Di Bella f7cd39428e Add Destroy.SubobjectDestroy as a temporary replacement for Destroy.Op (#7773)
This change partially implements [PR #7362], which revises how objects
are destroyed. It is a partial implementation for two reasons:

1. This change moves `Destroy.Op`'s current behaviour into
`Destroy.SubobjectDestroy`, but it doesn't add support for objects with
non-trivial destruction.
2. `Destroy.SubobjectDestroy` is a workaround for `require impls
SubobjectDestroy`. We aren't able to use the latter until the dependents
add their requirements' implementations to their own witness tables.

[PR #7362]: https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pulls/7362
2026-09-24 00:06:28 +00:00
Dana Jansens fcae9610bd Make SemIR::TypeType be an empty FacetType instruction (#7813)
The type `type` is now a `FacetType` inst with no constraints. This
brings the model implemented in the toolchain into better alignment with
the language design. The `SemIR::TypeType` struct remains as a scope for
holding the `TypeInstId`, `ConstantId`, and `TypeId` constants, but is
not an `InstKind` anymore.

The `TypeType` inst looks a lot like singletons, but there are many
`FacetType` insts so it doesn't quite fit that model. So we put it
alongside singletons with a fixed inst id but refer to it as a more
general "builtin" inst that is not a singleton.
`Namespace::PackageInstId` is similar, and we group it with `TypeType`
conceptually as another builtin instruction with a fixed id.

No conversion is needed anymore to use a `type` as a facet, since types
also have a `FacetType` type. This simplifies and removes a number of
helpers and branches throughout the code.

The `TypeType` inst is now part of the constant store, so we end up
printing it in the constants block in every test. But it's also named
`type` rather than `%type` to preserve the majority of existing
formatting behaviour, though this does look different from other
constants.

Assisted-by: Opus 5 was used to generate a first draft and validate the
refactoring. Though nearly everything non-trivial the tool wrote has
been modified or rewritten.
2026-09-22 15:04:40 +00:00
Lucile Rose Nihlen 83ca5b71e3 Move default value inst ids to a dedicated value store. (#7810)
Per #7737 we move the default value `InstId` storage from
a block in the `SemIR::Function` data structure to a
`SemIR::File` scoped `ValueStore`.

Moves the default value consistency checking to the general
merge argument pattern matching logic, which changes the
error message issued to the generic one.
2026-09-21 18:27:01 +00:00
Lucile Rose Nihlen 994bad5143 Use non-canonical instructions in default values. (#7737)
Per feedback on #7665, this PR switches the default value
table storage from canonical constant inst_ids to
non-canonical.

Furthermore, this PR simplifies the default value support in
check by requiring that the first owned declaration of a
function completely specify all of its default values.
Updates the diagnostic code and tests to reflect this new
stricter requirement.
2026-09-17 22:04:43 +00:00
Dana Jansens 4416f3525b Canonicalize generated functions for Core witnesses (#7729)
Use a single `SemIR::Function` per `Core` interface method, whether it's
generated locally or imported. This prevents generating duplicate
functions, which lead to different types when the witness appears in a
`FacetValue` as part of a specific for a class.

We use a `CanonicalValueStore` of `GeneratedFunction` objects that allow
finding an existing FunctionId for a `Generated` special function before
(re-)generating it. Mangling for `Generated` functions is also moved to
use the values from the `GeneratedFunction`'s canonicalization key, so
that we have a consistent source of truth for the unique ID of a
`Generated` function across all files.

New tests are in
`toolchain/check/testdata/impl/custom_witness/destroy.carbon`.
2026-09-15 16:02:13 +00:00
Özgür T. Önsoy c6d8d29172 Diagnose redundant redeclarations in impl files (#7695)
While forward declarations in impl files are allowed, having one in the
impl file is redundant when we also have one in the API file.
2026-09-08 23:15:42 +00:00
Lucile Rose Nihlen ca9e985fa8 Reconcile function default values between decl and def (#7665)
Updates the pattern matching code to support unspecified default values.
Adds logic to decl and def merge code to diagnose mismatches in defaults
if specified in both places, or if let entirely unspecified.

Per https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/7521.
2026-09-08 20:41:58 +00:00
Lucile Rose Nihlen 2952ec9c10 Fix a crash when checking a nested tuple-pattern (#7716)
Adds a virtual node to `DefaultValuePattern` to end the
`ExprRegionForPattern` before checking the expression
for the default value.

When checking the default value expression, the context
was still configured to interpret expressions as patterns,
which caused some corruption of state with tuple-pattern
subpatterns.

Corrects an assertion failure I found while working on
feedback from #7665.
2026-09-04 01:22:16 +00:00
Lucile Rose Nihlen 3e64670122 Transform pattern default values to SemIR (#7649)
Adds check functionality to transform the parse node to SemIR. Only
supported for single declarations of functions, re-declaration and
imports to come in a subsequent PR.

Per #7521.
2026-09-01 16:12:34 +00:00
Özgür T. Önsoy 2bdcb1fa62 Unify MergeRedecl functions (#7632)
As discussed in #7620.
2026-08-25 18:43:52 +00:00
Geoff Romer d21cc3197f Fix the textual IR name of WrapperBindingPattern (#7650)
`at_binding_pattern` is a relic from an earlier revision of #6930.
2026-08-18 22:31:27 +00:00
Christopher Di BellaandRichard Smith 4ea5ef45dd Skip ImplWitnessTable::elements_id when generating fingerprints (#7629)
Implementing interface modifiers causes an infinite loop when generating
fingerprints because the witness value generates a fingerprint that's
dependent on something dependent on the witness value. We've debugged
this to the witness table's `elements_id` field.

This hack is a workaround for creating a new block type whose value is
not codependent with its identity.

Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>

Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-08-11 22:39:30 +00:00
Özgür T. ÖnsoyandRichard Smith 1f22ba91bb Handle import refs in TryGetExistingDecl (#7620)
This solves the problem where `interface` imports are incorrectly
diagnosed as duplicate names in impl files.
Follows the implementation logic used in `handle_class.cpp`.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-08-11 19:29:46 +00:00
Dana Jansens a5ba0a0f45 Use GetConstantValueInSpecific to get the impl's specific interface after deduction (#7584)
During impl lookup, for each (generic) impl candidate, we form a
specific for that impl by deducing its generic arguments. Then we
compare the query interface against the impl's specific interface. That
comparison needs the deduced arguments applied to the impl's specific
interface. Previously we were doing this by getting the impl's
constraint facet type with the impl's specific applied (via
`GetConstantValueInSpecific()`) and then identifying that facet type
with the impl's deduced self.

Identify is a fairly expensive operation. It runs subst, trying to
replace `.Self` references. It walks named constraints. It collects
require declarations. We're looking at making it do _more_ in the future
too, including rewrite constraint resolution and collecting rewrite and
same-type constraints. For this reason we have a cache to make it cheap
on the second run, but it's still a very heavyweight operation to
involve in impl lookup, when all we want is to apply the impl's specific
to its target interface.

We almost have all the information we need to avoid the identification
step. We have the impl's specific after deduction. And we have the
SpecificInterface that the impl is targeting in the `Impl` struct. When
we form the specific for the impl itself, we resolve the declaration
block and form new constant values for all instructions in there, but
that does not cover the SpecificInterface that we're storing in the
`Impl` struct. So we add a new instruction to the impl's eval block,
which will be symbolic when the impl is generic and the target interface
depends on a generic parameter. And we store the `InstId` in the `Impl`
struct. This allows us to gets its constant value later with the impl's
specific applied. From that constant value we can then pull out the
SpecificInterface that the impl is targeting.
2026-07-30 19:59:10 +00:00
Richard Smith 703529fc55 Destroy temporaries at the end of expression statements. (#7513)
Instead of tracking the cleanup scope depth on entry to each scope,
track an "ambient" cleanup scope depth that's *after* the destructors of
local variables in that scope. This gets increased to include the
destructors of local variables when we create a name-binding
declaration. Then, when we reach a point where temporaries should be
destroyed, run cleanups that are after the ambient cleanup scope depth
on the stack. This happens:

* At the `;` of a statement expression.
* At the `)` of an `if` or `while` statement.
* After performing the implied `HasValue()` call in a `for` statement.

Per informal agreement with leads, this means we lifetime-extend all
temporaries created in the initializer of a name-binding declaration to
the full scope of that declaration, but that temporaries created in an
expression statement are destroyed at the `;`.
2026-07-16 15:12:39 +00:00
Richard Smith a8afc45ed5 Omit empty observe: blocks from formatted SemIR. (#7487)
Also add SemIR ranges to observe test, removing 5K lines of
uninteresting SemIR output.
2026-07-13 20:38:19 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 8be274cf60 Replace :! binding syntax with phase keywords and contextual defaults (#7479)
Implement the toolchain side of proposal #7254, removing the `:!`
binding
syntax for generic and template parameters in favor of the keywords
`generic`,
`template`, and `runtime` plus contextual defaults for phase.

For valid programs this is semantics-preserving: each binding resolves
to the
same phase, and produces the same SemIR, as it did under `:!`/`:`. The
parser
derives a binding's phase from its syntactic context plus any explicit
phase
keyword; new diagnostics and error recovery for misused keywords are
described
below.

Implementation details for each component:

- Lexer: remove the `:!` (`ColonExclaim`) token, move its virtual
parse-node
  budget onto `:`, and add the `generic` and `runtime` keywords.
- Parser: thread a `BindingContext` (`ExplicitParam`, `DeducedParam`, or
`CompileTimeEntityParam`) from declaration introducers down through
parameter
lists to each binding pattern, using a one-token lookahead to
distinguish a
name-qualifier parameter list from a declaration's own final list.
Parameters
of a compile-time entity (`class`, `interface`, `constraint`, `choice`,
`alias`, `export`, `namespace`) and deduced `[]` parameters default to
checked
generic; explicit function parameters and local bindings default to
runtime.
`HandleBindingPattern` resolves the phase from that context plus the
keyword: a
`generic` keyword needs no node of its own (the phase is carried by the
  binding's node kind), while a `runtime` keyword is preserved as a
`RuntimeBindingName` node so `check` can name it in a diagnostic. A
phase
keyword that is merely redundant with the contextual default is
diagnosed
  here, without invalidating the parse tree.
- Check: a phase keyword that is invalid for its context (for example
`runtime`
on a checked-generic parameter) is diagnosed here, and recovers by
building an
error binding that still introduces the name so that later uses of it do
not
  produce cascading errors.

The removed `:!` syntax is now rejected as an ordinary parse error.

The `form`/`:?`/`->?` ("extended types") portion of proposal #7254 is
left for a
separate change.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
2026-07-11 01:22:44 +00:00
Özgür T. ÖnsoyandDana Jansens 08385adeb5 Implement checking observe declarations (#6709)
This adds SemIR structs and implements building `observe` lists, as well
as naming, formatting, and importing `observe` declarations.

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Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
2026-07-08 17:07:10 +00:00
Geoff Romer 8945305dfc Emit NameBindingDecl after the initializer (if any) (#7467)
In some cases the pattern block can depend on the initializer, so it
must be sequenced after it. See #7469 for a more detailed explanation of
why this is necessary.
2026-07-07 19:18:33 +00:00
Geoff Romer 0460f6b7ba Label VarStorage as var_storage instead of var (#7447)
This makes the textual format clearer and more self-explanatory, and
avoids ambiguity about whether this inst refers to the storage or the
pattern.
2026-07-02 01:02:19 +00:00
Geoff Romer e4b0903d2e Remove ValueBinding and RefBinding (#7427)
These inst kinds are now redundant with `WrapperBinding`.
2026-06-29 17:41:23 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith e023f75254 Implement thunking in terms of constant evaluation (#7332)
The bulk of this change is changing most pattern insts to be `Always`
rather than `AlwaysUnique` constants, so that they can be wrapped in
`SpecificConstant`s to perform substitution. That then lets thunking
rely much more on `SpecificConstant` wrappers instead of deep-copying
the inst tree with modified types.

This approach to thunking should scale better, particularly as things
like form generics make function signatures more complex, because we can
leverage the existing support for constant evaluation and substitution.
Unfortunately, applying this approach to binding patterns will require
more work; see the TODO near the top of `thunk.cpp` for details.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-06-13 00:22:00 +00:00
Chandler Carruthandjosh11b 7871237c15 Move self to the explicit () parameter list (proposal #7016) (#7272)
Implements proposal #7016: `self` moves from the deduced implicit list
(`fn F[self: Self]()`) to the front of the explicit list. Its type may
be written explicitly (`fn F(self: Self)`) or omitted, in which case it
defaults to `Self` (`fn F(self)`, `fn F(ref self)`); `self` in the
implicit list is rejected.

Throughout checking, `self` is modeled as the first explicit parameter.
Because a method is just a function whose first parameter is `self`, it
can also be called as an ordinary function with the receiver passed
explicitly (`Type.M(obj, ...)`), not only as `obj.M(...)`. A new
`SemIR::CallArgParamPatterns` helper chooses the parameters matched
against the explicit arguments, excluding a leading `self` only when it
is supplied as a method-call receiver; arity checking, conversion, and
generic deduction use it. The resulting SemIR and lowering are
unchanged: `self` is still `call_param0`, and witnesses, thunks, and
vtables are unaffected.

An omitted `self` type is parsed as a `SelfBindingPattern` node with no
type expression; checking synthesizes the `Self` type so it behaves
exactly like `self: Self`. However, the exact spelling used must match
between a forward declaration and a definition, following #3763's rules
around declaration matching.

Generated functions, thunks, and C++ interop import/export build `self`
as the first explicit parameter, and the `self`-type override (e.g.
Derived->Base for a virtual override) applies to the explicit `self`.
Placement is validated by new diagnostics: `SelfInImplicitParamList`,
`SelfNotFirstParam`, and `SelfOutsideParamList`. The benchmark source
generator and the documentation adopt the `(self)` shorthand; the
prelude, the examples, and the test data are migrated in the following
commits.

Assisted-by: Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.7

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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
2026-06-10 15:30:43 +00:00
Richard Smith cefa0397bb More fixes to package and library fingerprinting. (#7297)
Fix import logic to make all imported packages be children of the
`NameScopeId::Package` scope. Previously, indirectly-imported packages
would end up as children of their importing package's scope, which
resulted in them not being treated as packages at all, and in particular
not being fingerprinted as packages.

Fixing that caused a failure in the fingerprinting logic as we started
to encounter packages with no correspoding import scopes. Instead of
looking for import scopes, use a simpler mechanism to map packages to
their package names, and clean up.

Unfortunately the latter change churns all the fingerprints again :(
Hopefully this is the last time for a while.
2026-06-04 17:41:46 +00:00
Richard Smith f5e9c61f11 Don't include the library name in most fingerprints. (#7292)
When we import from another library in the same package, its entities
end up with our library as their parent scope, resulting in cross-file
fingerprint mismatches. Instead, only include the library ID when
fingerprinting either a package-private entity or an `ImportIRId` that
refers to a particular `SemIR::File`.
2026-06-02 19:31:30 +00:00
Richard Smith 05cc09daca Fix cross-package signature mismatches. (#7232)
Fixes link failures when referencing a symbol involving a fingerprint
from a different package.

Previously we included the `Namespace`'s `import_id` as part of its
fingerprint, which caused local and imported namespaces to get different
fingerprints. We now store the `import_id` on the `NameScope` instead of
on the `Namespace` inst to avoid this problem.

Also, when we reach a package-level `NameScopeId`, consistently
fingerprint it as a (package name, library name) pair. Previously the
fingerprinting depended on whether it was imported or not, as an
imported `NameScopeId` had a parent scope (the current package). We need
to include the library name here so that private entities with the same
name in different libraries have different fingerprints.
2026-05-21 00:02:29 +00:00
Richard Smith ce080b3549 Support unqualified lookup into extended interfaces from classes and impls (#7217)
When a class extends an interface, referring to a member name of the
interface as an unqualified name should refer to the class's
corresponding associated entity value, not to the associated entity
itself. Similarly, in an `impl`, unqualified names of associated
entities should refer to the `impl`'s corresponding value for that
entity.

To support this, we treat `impl`s as `extend`ing their implemented facet
type, and we make lookups into an extended facet type use the `Self`
type of the extending `impl` or `class` if lookup finds an associated
entity. We already did the latter if the extending entity was an
interface; this extends the existing support for these other cases.
2026-05-19 18:01:54 +00:00
Dana Jansens f8dd4d85bf Do not treat impls in different scopes as redeclarations (#7161)
An impl in a different scope, with the same parameters, will overlap and
get diagnosed for that later by the [prioritization
rule](https://docs.carbon-lang.dev/docs/design/generics/details.html#prioritization-rule),
if they are not in a match_first block. But they are not considered as
redeclarations.

See [proposal
p5366](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/62b94f79322039acc3fc8e175896a64a32df470e/proposals/p5366.md)
for the rule.
2026-05-04 19:11:51 +00:00
Geoff Romer 4c9049346d Replace form insts with actions (#7100)
See
[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rWcueFwIfZox6GKVGxiUG4cBzjrZ6djXiIDGyJDtrE4/edit?tab=t.0)
for the design doc.

This also removes the default value of the `result_type_inst_id`
parameter of `HandleAction`, moves it before the action in the parameter
list, and documents it. This solves two problems:
- The default made it easy to forget, leading to unnecessary
`TypeOfInst` instructions.
- When it was present, putting it after the fairly "bulky" action
argument tended to make the callsite harder to read.
2026-04-29 18:13:42 +00:00
Geoff RomerandChandler Carruth 49c7288619 Restructure return declaration handling (#7076)
- A function with a return declaration always has exactly one
`ReturnSlotPattern`, representing the whole return declaration (whereas
previously that was omitted for value and reference returns).
- The `ReturnSlotPattern` always has a subpattern with the same form.
`OutParamPattern` already plays that role for initializing forms, and
`TuplePattern` will play that role for tuple forms. This change
introduces `ValueReturnPattern` and `RefReturnPattern` to represent
value and reference return forms.
- As before, the `ReturnSlotPattern` has a corresponding `ReturnSlot`
that represents the output that is initialized by a `return` statement.
Its structure parallels the structure of the `ReturnSlotPattern`, so we
need `ValueReturn` and `RefReturn` insts that correspond to
`ValueReturnPattern` and `RefReturnPattern`.

This is a step toward supporting generic return forms, where the
`ReturnSlotPattern`'s subpattern may be an action: this change ensures
that evaluating the action for a specific form produces the same SemIR
as if the form were concrete to begin with. More speculatively, this
should simplify the implementation of `return` statements with compound
return forms.

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Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
2026-04-22 23:38:21 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkinsandjonmeow 9266ced4e3 Improve CanDestroyType to handle remaining cases (#6943)
This is only fixing the decision about *whether* to produce a witness.
Implementation of the witness is still a TODO, though where a body is
generated, it should also precisely reflect where one _needs_ to be
generated.

Note the tests:

- toolchain/lower/testdata/function/generic/import_core_witness.carbon
- toolchain/lower/testdata/function/generic/import_unused_def.carbon

These tests can probably be produced _without_ Core.Destroy, but I found
the essence of them while trying to build //examples with Core.Destroy
and a simpler minimization wasn't striking me.

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini

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Co-authored-by: jonmeow <jperkins@google.com>
2026-04-02 22:54:58 +00:00
Geoff Romer 18f87e4f79 Include the type in the location of binding insts (#6963) 2026-03-26 18:43:29 +00:00
Geoff Romer e0c6800ab3 Reverse nesting structure of parameter patterns (#6930)
See
[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rWcueFwIfZox6GKVGxiUG4cBzjrZ6djXiIDGyJDtrE4/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.7mi143mdhr2h)
for an overview of the changes and their rationale.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
2026-03-23 20:38:20 +00:00
Geoff RomerandDavid Blaikie 2e155567bd Disallow :? within var (#6812)
Co-authored-by: David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com>
2026-03-06 21:08:22 +00:00
21291b4cc3 Remove InitForm::index (#6817)
This ensures that equal forms always have equal representations (because
the index depends on how the form is used, not on the value of the form
itself).

As a byproduct, also remove `NextCallParamIndex`.

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2026-03-06 17:35:48 +00:00
Geoff RomerandJon Ross-Perkins 6dba8ee111 Remove index fields from ParamPatterns (#6815)
This is a step toward removing the index from `InitForm`, so that equal
form values always have equal representations.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2026-03-03 00:19:47 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins b14015602b Make Destroy.Op functions able to have a body (#6729)
This is iterating on how `Destroy.Op` generates, to start adding body
capabilities. This changes the way the signature is created, and adds a
`CoreWitness` function kind so that mangling can prevent name
collisions. The result is that what _was_ `DestroyOp` is now
`Core.Destroy.Op` or, as can be seen in
toolchain/lower/testdata/interop/cpp/nullptr.carbon,
`_COp.<hash>:core.Destroy.Core` where `:core` is indicating that it's a
core witness (taking a note from `:thunk`).

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
2026-03-02 17:57:31 +00:00
Dana Jansens cea52ad2d8 Format the InterfaceWithSelf and NamedConstraintWithSelf generic name with its ".WithSelf" suffix (#6798)
We used the ".WithSelf" suffix when formatting a parent scope, but
missed the suffix when formatting the scope name on its own.
2026-02-27 13:50:56 +00:00
Richard Smith f9ab963bd6 Add a type_literal instruction to represent syntactic type literals. (#6781)
This allows us to capture the location at which a type literal was used,
even in the cases where we don't otherwise need to create a new
instruction to represent the type such as for `char` or `str`.

The logic used to build the underlying type is now marked as desugaring.
For cases such as `iN`, this causes the call to `Core.Int` to no longer
be added as a dedicated IR instruction, and instead its constant value
is used directly as the value of the `type_literal`. This results in
this being on balance a reduction in the size of the IR.

This also fixes a crash in C++ interop when using a `char` literal as a
template argument. The crash was caused by the template argument not
having an associated location when mapping to a C++ location. See
changes to check/testdata/interop/cpp/template/type_param.carbon for an
example that used to crash before this change.

Update alias handling to allow an alias to point at any type literal,
reinstating support for aliases for type literals such as `bool` and
`i32` that had previously worked but stopped working when we
transitioned those types to being defined in the prelude. See changes to
toolchain/check/testdata/alias/builtins.carbon.

All the test changes other than the two mentioned above are mechanical
autoupdate changes switching to the new instruction.
2026-02-26 20:10:50 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins e2bdbe8507 Make semir scope labels only print when non-empty (#6780)
This shifts logic a little so that empty top-level scopes are printed
less often. This affects imports mainly for now, but should be expected
to affect the soon-to-be-added generated scope more significantly.

Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
2026-02-25 00:28:59 +00:00
fdb188ccfd Implement unused pattern bindings, continued (#6518)
Implementation of unused pattern bindings #2022, continued.

Whereas previous PR #6460 took care of parsing, and PR #6479 prepared
the stage by using _ in some test cases, this PR has the the actual
implementation, using a simple dataflow analysis.

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Co-authored-by: Burak Emir <bqe@google.com>
Co-authored-by: jonmeow <jperkins@google.com>
2026-02-19 23:33:36 +00:00
Dana Jansens 917a6ea971 Add an interface-with-self generic to each interface and same for constraints (#6667)
Currently each interface has a `Self` facet internally that becomes a
binding to every entity inside the interface: associated constants,
functions, and require decls. Each of these has to be independently
generic as a result. This makes is challenging in extended name lookup
to move into an extended scope of an interface, as we have a specific
for the interface, but the names within require a different specific
that includes a `Self` facet value.

We generalize this relationship by adding a second generic to Interface,
called `generic_with_self`. When we want to work with entities inside
the interface, we move from the interface-without-specific to the
interface-with-self specific by adding a Self to the specific. This is
done independently of any particular entity inside the Interface, as
those entities are now all members of the interface-with-self generic.

Associated constants no longer need a generic of their own, as they do
not have separate generic bindings. Functions retain a generic, but if
the function has no generic arguments, it will have no bindings of its
own now.

Require decls retain a generic so that their specific can be
instantiated separately from the interface. Requiring the interface to
be complete does not require the types in a require decl to be complete
unless it is modified by `extend`. So we allow them to be completed
later by keeping them in a separate generic.

Named constraints look like interfaces and gain the additional inner
generic-with-self, with the same relationship to require decls.

This removes the need for name lookup to perform Substitution of a Self
facet into the extended scope instruction. Instead, the
`SpecificConstant` instruction inserted by a `require` decl is part of
the interface-with-self generic. When looking through a FacetType for
extended scopes, for each interface, we push the scope with the specific
for the interface-with-self. Then the constant value of the
`SpecificConstant` is correctly modified by the provided self
automatically through applying that specific.
2026-02-19 16:24:07 +00:00
Geoff Romer 3c324e4877 Add category to parameter format, and share some code. (#6730) 2026-02-13 22:20:05 +00:00
Geoff Romer 1c885a629e Format FormType as "Core.Form" (#6734) 2026-02-13 19:44:21 +00:00
Richard Smith 1b2ae912fc Add basic support for eval fn and musteval fn. (#6694)
Add support for compile-time functions. `eval fn` is analogous to C++
`constexpr`, and is evaluated at compile time when it has compile-time
arguments. `musteval fn` is analogous to C++ `consteval`, and requires
that its arguments be available at compile time and is always evaluated
at compile time. For now we require the modifier to match across
redeclarations of the function. The specific modifier syntax here is a
placeholder and not yet part of an approved design.

Limitations: Only very basic support for evaluation is provided. So far
there's no support for mutable state or `if` expressions, but otherwise
control flow and passing and returning values should work. Carbon
evaluation recursion is modeled by C++ recursion for now, so you can
overflow the toolchain stack easily. Functions that use in-place
initialization will generally not work yet, as they are modeled as
passing a non-compile-time-constant reference to a temporary to the
call.

Add missing categorization of `name_binding_decl` as `NotExpr` to match
other similar declaration instructions like `FunctionDecl`, so that we
can uniformly skip over them when they occur within function bodies.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro and Flash via Antigravity
2026-02-11 02:08:16 +00:00
Richard Smith e69c3fd978 Support list initialization of C++ classes that is performed via a constructor call. (#6660)
The general strategy here is to import the constructor with a signature
that directly matches the argument. The intent is that the imported
function will eventually be usable directly as the `ImplicitAs.Convert`
function in a generated `impl`.

For initialization from a tuple, for example `(1, 2)`, we import the
selected constructor with a signature that takes a tuple pattern:

  `fn Class.Class((a: i32, b: i32)) -> Class;`

In order to support that, this PR also adds support in general for tuple
patterns in function signatures. It turns out the implementation was
already very close to allowing this.

Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro via Antigravity
2026-01-27 22:04:21 +00:00
Geoff Romer 4329a83e4c Form-aware textual format for return parameters and arguments (#6588)
The key changes are:
- Function output parameters are now prefixed with `out`, and more
consistently formatted as named parameters.
- Function and inst output arguments are now written as part of the inst
form, rather than as one of the inst arguments.

As a drive-by fix, this also changes `Temporary::storage_id` from
`DestInstId` to `InstId`, because it doesn't represent an output
parameter of the `Temporary` inst itself.

See the review of
[#6532](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/6532) and
[this Discord
discussion](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/999638000126394370/1458268977020141589)
for additional background.
2026-01-14 23:27:21 +00:00
Burak Emir 80639a02f0 [parse] Implement initial parsing support for Lambda expressions (#6583)
This adds the necessary parser infrastructure to recognize and parse
lambda expressions in Carbon.

Key changes:
- Added  and  Parse Node Kinds.
- Updated  to use  to accommodate the growing number of node kinds.
- Implemented parser states and handlers for lambda syntax ( or ).
- Added  structure to .
- Added diagnostics for missing lambda bodies.
- Added a stub in  phase to defer semantic analysis using .
- Added parser tests for lambdas.
2026-01-14 16:58:15 +00:00
Geoff Romer 11d407b4a0 Add form to Function (#6561)
... and use the form to implement support for `ref` returns.
2026-01-08 18:55:53 +00:00
Geoff Romer 505b1c86b9 Initial support for return forms (#6556)
The main changes here are:
- Introducing `InitForm` and `RefForm` to represent initializing and
reference forms (the two return forms currently supported by the
parser).
- Introducing the `FormType` singleton inst to represent their type
(i.e. `Core.Form`).
- Emitting an inst representing a function's declared return form as
part of handling the function signature.

The return form inst is currently ignored. Subsequent PRs will expose it
in `SemIR::Function` and use it to determine the form of call
expressions.
2026-01-07 00:54:18 +00:00