A nested designator like `.(X.X1).(Y.Y1)` results in nested
ImplWitnessAccess instructions, which can produce cycles in the
toolchain easily when replacing `.Self`.
First, when constructing a facet type like `V:! Z where .Z1 impls (Y
where .Y1 = U)` we substitute replace `.Self` in the nested facet type,
and in this case we replace `.Self` with `.Z1` which contains a `.Self`
of its own. This was coming from us being lazy about replacing `.Self`
in an `impl as` declaration, such as `impl C as Z where .Z1 = .Self`.
The self type is known there, so we can more eagerly replace `.Self` as
we do in a `require impls` declaration. Then the replacement for `.Self`
never comes with a `.Self` that needs to also be replaced. Any resulting
`.Self` would always be the top-level one.
Second, when evaluating ImplWitnessAccess, we were replacing .Self in
the LHS of rewrite constraints, but the `.Self` may itself have a type
that contains rewrite constraints. If one of those rewrite constraints
has nested ImplWitnessAccess instructions, we evaluate the new
ImplWitnessAccess, which again finds rewrite constraints to replace
`.Self` in, and we repeat forever. For this one we just stop replacing
.Self in the LHS of rewrite constraints. Since they are always against
.Self, we can always look in the access facet's type for a value.
While fixing ImplWitness access, also correct the lookup to search
through the types of nested ImplWitnessAccess instructions to find a
rewrite value, since it may find it at any level up to the eventual
`.Self`.
---------
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
A `where` expression nested inside a `T impls X` constraint makes
`.Self` ambiguous on the right-hand side of the `where` if `T` is
anything other than `.Self`. After the `where`, the value of a `.Self`
could be `T` or could be the value of `.Self` before the `impls`
constraint: the so-called top-level value of `.Self`.
Implicit use of `.Self` in designators is always allowed, and they are
bound (and replaced by a reference) to the inner-most possible value of
`.Self`. On the right-hand side of the nested `where` above, they have
the value `T as X`.
`.Self impls ...` is also always allowed, since it acts more as a
keyword here, and it always refers to the inner-most possible value of
`.Self`.
Any other explicit use of `.Self` is diagnosed when ambiguous, in any
kind of constraint. This is done in the handling of `WhereExpr` since it
has enough context to allow `.Self impls` (which is an explicit use)
while disallowing other explicit uses. And because it has non-canonical
instructions to work with, so it is able to diagnose errors with precise
locations.
Since `.Self` is no longer going to be marked with depth modifiers, the
eval of `WhereExpr` does not need an input facet value instruction
representing `.Self` to compare with, as they are now going to all be
equivalent. So revert it back to just looking for the `PeriodSelf` name
id, through a shared helper being introduced as `IsPeriodSelf`. And drop
the period self InstId from the `WhereExpr` instruction. This causes
most of the formatted SemIR changes.
Move helpers for working with and replacing `.Self` to their own file,
out of the `facet_type.h` header/cpp files. These are working with
`.Self` facet values more than facet types, though `.Self` is a name
that only exists inside the scope of a facet type.
This allows `T impls X` constraints to function, since they must contain
some reference to `.Self` in order to be valid. This should be
sufficient to support the interfaces we need for for loops over C++
range-for-compatible types.
We replace `.Self` in the following places:
- In a require decl, as we have a specific self facet to replace it with
from the declaration, either a user-specified facet or the symbolic
`Self`.
- When identifying a facet type, as we have a specific self that we are
identifying the facet type with. That self gets used for all `.Self`
references.
- Implicit `.Self` references on the RHS of an `impls` constraint when
building a facet type. The `.Self` references there no longer refer to
the top level self facet, so replace them with the facet that we now
know they refer to, which is found on the LHS of the `where` before the
`impls`.
- Rewrite constraints in impl lookup when validating them and comparing
them with constants from witnesses, which come from identifying a facet
type.
- Rewrite constraints in ImplWitnessAccess eval when comparing them with
constants from witnesses, which come from identifying a facet type.
Substitution is done through `SubstPeriodSelf`. It handles replacing
`.Self` and `.Self as type`, for a replacement facet that is either of
type FacetType or TypeType.
Eval currently diagnoses some ambiguous `.Self` references when doing
substitution of `.Self` but this is the incorrect place to do it, so
there are TODOs about moving this to name lookup. To support these
diagnostics there's some additional complexity in `SubstPeriodSelf` that
can go away once the TODOs are addressed, such as asking the caller if
they want to replace each `.Self`, in order for it to report a
diagnostic.
There are a number of follow-up work items here:
- Some TODO tests.
- Remove `SymbolicBindingType` since its intention was to support
`.Self` but we don't need it with this approach.
- Replace `.Self` in rewrite constraints of require decls.
- Replace `.Self` in rewrite constraints of impl as when constructing
the witness table.
- Reject explicit `.Self` in name lookup when it would be ambiguous.
- Officially disallow `.Self.A = B` in rewrite constraints in the design
docs, so that we don't have the case where `.A` is allowed but `.Self.A`
is not due to ambiguity.
Use constant values in code that can work with a canonical value
(`TypeStructureReferencesSelf`).
Give explicit location ids for the full require decl and the constraint
to `ValidateRequire`.
Go directly from `InstId` to `TypeId` in `ValidateRequire`.
Correctly/explicitly handle constraint instructions which are not types
instead of calling `SemIR::TypeId::ForTypeConstant` and hoping for the
best.
Leave a clear spot where we will subst `.Self` out of the contraint.
TypeIterator has both SymbolicType and SymbolicBinding and these overlap
in their meaning. Clarify the API by removing SymbolicBinding and just
using SymbolicType for `SymbolicBinding` insts and when they are
converted to `type` to make a `SymbolicBindingType` inst. Add the
EntityNameId to the SymbolicType for when it is available, when the
instruction is just a simple reference to a binding.
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Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
We don't yet actually add any in check, but this adds the storage for
them, and capabilities to import them, evaluate them, substitute into
them with specifics, name them, format them, and stringify them.
---------
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Using a named constraint inside itself is problematic:
- If there were not require decls written above, it identifies as an
empty set. This makes `Z(Self)` essentially disappear in the identified
facet type, which produces "no use of Self" diagnostics while the user
can see a use of Self in the code.
- It won't include require decls that are written after, and so `require
T impls Z` won't actually enforce that `T` impls all of `Z`.
Previously this was an error because using the named constraint would
require it to be identified, and it's not identified until it is
complete. But this will change in proposal #6902. So that proposal also
includes changes to preserve diagnostics for incorrect use of a named
constraint before it's complete, which is implemented here.
Discussed in open discussion [on
2026-03-12](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mjllGO3ZCL4qGt9uJHUtcxKoHAGEY7Y999ie4EtBWB8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1dvbbrp5a6t3).
The new tests exposed a bug where we're not copying named constraints in
a facet type on the RHS of `where .Self impls` into the facet type on
the left, which is now fixed. The
`fail_require_impls_incomplete_self_in_period_self_impls.carbon` test
would not diagnose its error without this fix.
The type of the query self is looked into for a witness, but that type
may be unable to be identified. For example when the query is against
`Self` inside the declaration of a named constraint. Before this PR, we
would crash when identification failed. Now we produce a diagnostic.
This makes `RequireIdentifiedFacetType` take a `ContextScope` callback
(like it used to with an `AnnotationScope` callback) since all callers
now expect to handle diagnostics, and can provide useful context.
This is a followup to #6761.
Introduces `Context` and `SoftContext` messages, which can be introduced
through a `ContextBuilder`:
- The `Context` messages come before the diagnostic in the output.
- The first `Context` message steals the diagnostic level from the main
diagnostic, and turns the main diagnostic into a Note attached to the
context.
- A `SoftContext` message works similarly, but if it's preceeded by a
`Context` or `SoftContext` message, then it is dropped. This can be used
as a default/backup scope when nothing more interesting is provided up
the stack, such as in `TryEvalBlockForSpecific`.
The `ContextBuilder` is provided to a callback through
`Diagnostics::ContextScope`, an RAII type `AnnotationScope` but for
context messages.
This allows a high level operation to provide a context message like
"failed to identify facet type {0}" which will then be used as the error
if a diagnostic is produced during identification, with the latter
diagnostic attached as a note to explain why the contextual operation
failed.
In particular, this allows monomorphization errors (such as an array
bound being negative) to be attached to a higher lever operation instead
of being top-level diagnostics themselves, with the monomorphization
site being a note. This inverts the source code locations that appear in
the diagnostic, so that the top-level diagnostic points to the "user
code" which causes the monomorphization.
This is presented as an alternative strategy to #6753, which plumbed
diagnoser callbacks around to achieve the same goals.
We replace the diagnoser callbacks in type completion and operators with
ContextScope callbacks instead, which now provide better diagnostics for
monomorphization errors. Other callers to MakeSpecific do not yet have
ContextScopes introduced in order to turn monomorphization errors into
more interesting diagnostics.
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.
When doing name lookup into an extended scope of an interface or named
constraint, the containing scope has an inner `Self` facet which can
appear in the specific of the extended scope. For instance a constraint
`N` which requires an interface `Z(Self)`:
```js
constraint N {
extend require impls Z(Self);
}
```
When doing member lookup into a facet constrained by `N`, we need to
find the specific interface `Z(...)` where the `Self` is replaced by the
self-type the member lookup is happening on in order for impl lookup to
find a witness later.
Inside that specific interface we repeat the name lookup to find an
associated entity. Then to produce a witness we perform impl lookup
against the specific interface that name lookup returned with the
self-type of the member access. So if we do member access into `A:! N`
for a member `F`, like `A.F`, we would be doing impl lookup with a query
self of `A` and looking for the interface `Z(...)` returned from name
lookup.
When impl lookup has a facet as the query self, which we do here as `A`,
it takes its type (a facet type) and identifies it to find all the
required interfaces, and it substitutes the query self into those
specific interfaces for `Self`. If the `Z(...)` we acquired from name
lookup is `Z(Self)` it will fail the lookup for `A as Z(Self)`, since in
the facet type of `A` it finds a witness for `Z(A)` instead.
Thus, we replace the inner `Self` in extended scopes, such as `N`, with
the self-type of the member access, which produces the extended scope
`Z(A)` for this example. This allows the impl lookup for `A as Z(A)` to
find a witness from the facet type of `A`.
In order to do this, we include an instruction for the inner self when
registering the extended scope. Then, when we find the extended scope in
name lookup, we can use its CompileTimeBindIndex to replace any instance
of that `Self` facet with a new facet. If the self-type of member access
is a type, we construct a FacetValue with an empty facet type that
refers to the type.
If `Self` is not in the self type, then it must be an argument to every
interface required by the declaration. Specifically, this means the
interfaces in the identified facet type, and does not matter if `Self`
appears in the arguments of named constraints.
Fix the diagnostic to stop saying "constraint" incorrectly. And improve
clarity by including in the diagnostic which interface it found without
`Self` as an argument, since it may be found in some other named
constraint, rather than directly in the facet type as written.
Add the required facet type as an extended scope of the containing
interface/named constraint, and teach name lookup to look for extended
scopes in named constraints.
This makes name lookup work properly when the facet type does not have a
specific that involves `Self`. Support for `Self` needs further work in
another PR.
Note that when an _interface_ requires another interface, this PR lets
us find the name, but we still fail to find a witness for the interface
named through `extend require`, and this is future work. For a named
constraint, things work correctly as the identified facet type chases
through the named constraint and includes the required interface, so
impl lookup is able to provide a witness.
Identifying a facet type takes both a self and facet type as a pair, and
then encode the self into the IdentifiedFacetType. This makes a
constraint that requires some _other_ type implements an interface
visible in the IdentifiedFacetType. And it will help to enable facet
types with `where T impls Z` for `T` that is not `.Self` in the future.
IdentifiedFacetTypes are now stored in a CanonicalValueStore instead of
a RelationalValueStore as they key is the combination of self and
(declared) facet type together now.
When the self-type is a facet value (has type FacetType) this is most
straightforward. But when it's a type we need to construct a FacetValue
to construct a specific for a require decl, to replace the generic
binding of the symbolic `Self`, which has type FacetType. To do so, we
make a FacetValue with an empty FacetType (equivalent to TypeType). This
prevents any looking for witnesses through the FacetType, which matches
what you can get from a type directly, requiring witnesses to come from
finding an `impl` decl.
Add additional InstNamer logic for such empty facet types so they print
as `<typename>.type.facet` if possible instead of as just `facet_value`.
Just as names from an `extend` scope get included in the containing
scope, so do errors. Apply this logic to `extend require impls`,
propagating any errors up.
This is based on #6465.
---------
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
We encode the state of looking that the parent scope is a Class into a
type so that we can avoid extra lookups. Then use that in refactoring
where diagnostics are generated for an explicit `Self` in an `extend
impl` declaration.
We add tests that we don't double-diagnose the Self type when it's
already an error, and make the behaviour of `extend require` match that
of `extend impl as`.
This avoids some fragile/complex parse-node lookups (such as
`context.parse_tree_and_subtrees().ExtractAs<Parse::ImplTypeAs>`) by
using the parse node at the point where we are handling it instead of
much later.
This is part of #6420 which is being split up into a chain of smaller
PRs.
The FacetTypeId should never be used directly, since the RequireImpls is
a generic and the facet type may be parameterized by generic bindings.
So instead, it should be accessed through GetConstantValueInSpecific,
which works with the facet type InstId that is also already present on
RequireImpls. This change to use GetConstantValueInSpecific was done in
#6435, so the FacetTypeId is now unused except in formatting. So we can
remove it.
This depends on #6435.
When forming an IdentifiedFacetType, we collect interfaces named by
require decls in named constraints that the facet type refers to. These
interfaces come with a specific, but the require decl is inside an named
constraint which may be generic. So we need the specific being applied
to the containing named constraint to also be applied to the require
decl and its target interfaces.
This uncovered that the facet type in require decls was not being
imported correctly, as it was not being attached to the require decl's
generic. This is fixed by making import of RequireImplsDecl multiphase,
so that the decl instruction exists before we resolve the facet type
within it. And by pointing the generic importing machinery to the
RequireImplsDecl, and from there to the RequireImpls structure to get
the generic id.
Then `ImplStore::GetOrAddLookupBucket` can use an IdentifiedFacetType to
correctly get the interface being impl'd, both in the local and the
imported named constraint case. Which allows us to correctly diagnose
redeclarations in the impl file of an impl of an interface through a
named constraint. And to correctly _not_ diagnose them when the specific
in the generic named constraint differs from other decls.
Identifying a facet type is an operation on a pair of (self type, facet
type). It substitutes that self in as the `Self` of any require
declarations in order to form the set of (self type, SpecificInterface)
pairs that constitute the requirements of the IdentifiedFacetType.
Currently we don't pass around any self type, and assume all require
declarations are written against `Self` but this will change in the
future.
By contrast, type completion is done in the abstract and does not form
specifics for the require declarations. The purpose of type completion
is to enumerate the scopes where name lookup can occur and ensure they
are completed.
With this change, type completion is:
- No longer built on top of identification for facet types.
- Recursively ensures all `extend` scopes are complete since name lookup
can find symbols in them.
We add some test cases that demonstrate consistency between a resolving
the specific of a generic class, and a generic interface/constraint,
both used in a type position. In all cases, an invalid specific is not
materialized for the type completion when the specific's arguments are
used in a non-extend context. But they specific is materialized and
checked for type completion when in an extend context (extend impl or
extend require).
Type completion itself does not need to recurse into named constraints
or interfaces as the `extend require` declarations require the type to
be complete immediately, just as for `extend impl` in a class.
We had a test (`fail_incomplete_where.carbon`) with `impl as J where
.Self impls K` and `J` is incomplete, which used to be diagnosed but no
longer is, because we don't require non-extend interfaces to be complete
in type completion, nor in identification. The test was trying to test
the presence of rewrite constraints though, which it didn't even use. So
we remove the diagnostic that we can't hit anymore and replaced it with
a TODO, and add a test that should reach that TODO once qualified
rewrite constraints work.
Proposal #5168 defines when a facet type must be identified or complete,
and what it means for an interface and a named constraint to be
identified or complete. This updates the toolchain to match the
requirements.
This implements identification of a facet type to require completed
named constraints and to include any interfaces from named constraints
into the resulting IdentifiedFacetType.
To complete a facet type, each interface in the IdentifiedFacetType, and
any interface named though a require declaration from them, must be
complete.
When importing an Interface or NamedConstraint, walk the block of
`RequireImplsId`s, and for each one:
- Import the RequireImplsDecl from it, which also imports the
`RequireImpls` structure and its id.
- Collect those decls and build a block of `RequireImplsId`s for the
local SemIR to reference from the Interface or NamedConstraint.
The import of RequireImplsDecl is done in a single phase instead of
three, unlike other decls. This is possible since require declarations
have no name, so they can't be referenced by instructions inside them,
thus there's no cycles to concern ourselves with.
They are not used for impl lookup or verifying anything yet, but now
they appear in the textual semir.
---------
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
The `RequireDecl` instruction points, via a `RequireImplsId` to a
`RequireImpls` structure in a `ValueStore`. That structure holds the
self-type and facet type, as well as the generic id and parent scope.
`RequireImpls` is always a generic since it only appears in an
`interface` or `constraint`, which both have a generic parameter `Self`
applied to all their members.
The `RequireDecl` instruction evaluates to itself, but drops the
decl_block_id since the instructions within the `require` declaration
are not required in the canonical value which is only used for import.
And import will want to import the `RequireImpls` structure along with
the `Interface` or `NamedConstraint` structure it is in, rather than
recreate it from the decl's instructions. This also avoids repeating all
the instructions within the `require` decl in the textual semir's
constants block.
Adding the `RequireImpls` to the `Interface` or `NamedConstraint`
structure is not yet done, so they are not available for impl lookup or
import yet.
This requires declared FacetTypes to hold NamedConstraintIds (along with
a specific) that are named in an extend or impls requirement. We add
support to stringify and formatter to display the named constraints in
the facet type, and special case when a facet type contains a single
extend named constraint, like we did for a single extend interface.
This means that `RequireIndentifiedFacetType` can now fail, if the facet
type contains a forward-declared named constraint. Add the appropriate
diagnostics for each call to this function, and note the ones that
should change to `RequireCompleteFacetType` in the future with TODOs.
We also add tests for using facet types that can or can't be identified,
or completed, with named constraints in them.
They don't get stored anywhere yet, but this type checks the
declarations and diagnoses errors in their form, such as not placing a
facet type after `impls` or a type before it.
Dana JansensandRichard Smith
