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Chandler CarruthandRichard Smith 68569d234d Improve lexer and parser diagnostic locations (#7990)
Lexer diagnostics used a single `const char*` as their source location,
which only allowed pointing at a single character rather than a run of
characters. This limited the underlining of unrecognized tokens, and
also made escape sequence diagnostics particularly strange by stopping
at whatever point the lexer discovered the error and pointing only at
that location. For example: `"\w"` was reported at the `w`, and `"\x"`
at the closing `"`.

This change tries to always keep the primary location of a diagnostic
the point at which typing (inserting or deleting) might fix the error.
So for `"\x"`, `\x` is underlined, but the position is at the `"` as
that's where you would type a hex code.

The lexer's emitter now takes a special lexing source location that
represents either a single position _between_ two characters, a single
character, or a range of the source buffer. The lexer diagnostics are
updated to construct these for the character range as appropriate.

Parser diagnostics for a missing token were located at the _next_ token,
which is particularly confusing for terminators like missing `;`s. Now
they are located at a position after the previous token, with or without
a space depending on the token, but typically on the same line.
Diagnostics still sort by how far the parser has read.

The parser diagnostics for unclosed groups also now attaches a label to
the opening token when it is on a separate line. And the diagnostics for
mismatched indent in a multi-line string attaches a label to the closing
`'''` that establishes that indent.

There are likely more location improvements we should do here, but this
seemed like a reasonable incremental improvement and is what Claude
found when doing an initial audit. One example where I think we should
make further improvements is around suggesting raw identifiers when we
find an unexpected `Cpp` or `Core` or `base`. We do this consistently
now, but raw identifiers should be rare. A TODO is added for these
cases.

Assisted-by: Claude Code

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2026-11-01 06:22:00 +00:00
Richard Smith b766aa4d16 Support for terse => function bodies (#7895)
Treat the function as having a `-> auto` return type. Reject calls to
functions that still have a non-deduced `-> auto` return type, and
rewrite the function to have the actual return type once it is known.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-10-16 21:48:48 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 2c9739799b Render diagnostics through the terminal library (#7683)
Diagnostic rendering was part of the data model: `Loc::FormatLocation`
and
`Loc::FormatSnippet` wrote plain text to a stream, so no capability,
color, or
terminal width could reach them.

A diagnostic is now one message with labels, contexts, and location
information
attached, and `Diagnostics::Renderer` draws it into a
`Terminal::Buffer`. The
design is in `toolchain/docs/diagnostics_rendering.md` (#7668),
authoring in
`toolchain/docs/diagnostics.md`.

Before:

```
example.carbon:6:3: error: 1 argument passed to function expecting 0 arguments
  Run0(1);
  ^~~~~~~
example.carbon:3:1: note: calling function declared here
fn Run0() {}
^~~~~~~~~~~
```

After:

```
error: 1 argument passed to function expecting 0 arguments
       ╭─┤ example.carbon:6:3
       ┆
     3 │ fn Run0() {}
       · ─────┬─────
       ·      ╰──┤ calling function declared here
       ┆
->   6 │   Run0(1);
       ·   ───────
       ╰────────────
```

`--no-diagnostic-snippets` gives a compact form, `example.carbon:6:3-9`.
File
tests use it; the rendering tests under `toolchain/diagnostics/testdata`
ask for
snippets.

C++ interop diagnostics are data now rather than text Clang drew:
`SemIR::ClangSourceLocId` names a `clang::SourceRange`, and a Clang
location is
marked as the point it names.

`StreamConsumer` moves to a `:renderer` target that `:emitter` does not
depend
on, keeping `common/terminal` out of `consumer.h`. Capabilities come
from the
file behind the error stream, so tests get plain ASCII.

`renderer_fuzzer` draws diagnostics built from fuzzer bytes with every
capability combination, since a shape the renderer doesn't expect must
never be
why the compiler dies while reporting a problem.

TODOs mark the follow-ups: line weights and crossing lines, wrapping
that keeps
a quoted type whole, and ordering diagnostics that share a byte offset.

Also: `IncorrectExtension`'s hint moves into its message, since its note
had no
location of its own, and `strip_noise` in `check_diagnostics.py` blanks
multi-line `#define`s instead of deleting them.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
2026-10-15 06:08:57 +00:00
Richard Smith f83518bfd7 Don't create two parse nodes for each => token. (#7894)
Instead of producing two parse nodes in a row for each `=>` token,
produce just one.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-10-06 21:43:36 +00:00
Richard Smith 1b0a5709e6 Initial support for fn expressions. (#7893)
Support for `fn` expressions with the same feature set as `fn`
declarations. In particular, there is no support for captures,
positional parameters, `=>` bodies, or `auto` return types.

Note that this results in two parse nodes for each `=>` token. That's a
bug, but it matches the behavior of function declarations, and will be
fixed in a follow-up change.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
2026-10-06 20:12:58 +00:00
Geoff Romer 6429c1655c Make the tree structure more explicit in parse dumps (#7591)
It's hard to track 2-space indent levels across large vertical gaps, and
it can be hard to suppress the instinct to read the dump as if it were
preorder. This change introduces a new dump mode that addresses both
problems by using box-drawing characters to explicitly represent the
parent-child edges of the tree. This new mode is the default, but the
old behavior remains available with
`--parse-dump-format=yaml-postorder`.
2026-07-31 16:44:18 +00:00
Dana Jansens d2ac9b3933 Diagnose where in a binding that introduces a .Self that does not refer to the binding (#7517)
This is in addition to finding a `where` on the RHS of another `where`.
Since a generic binding introduces `.Self`, any `where` expression that
isn't part of a facet type modifying the binding itself would introduce
an ambiguous `.Self`.

Add virtual parse nodes for let, var, and form bindings, which goes
before the type. This allows us to track if `where` appears in the
binding's type. We only need to look for an invalid `where` if any
appeared in the type. We combine these three nodes together into a
single node kind, which requires us to remove the name from it as a
child. We move it up to the Pattern node again, and rename the
PatternStart nodes to PatternTypeStart as they are now located in the
middle of the Pattern nodes, just before the type.

And we only need to thaw `.Self` in generic bindings. Non-generic
bindings can only have `.Self` through a `where` expression, since the
name is not provided otherwise to non-generic bindings. And `where`
expressions thaw their `.Self` independently. So the binding only needs
to thaw a `.Self` that it introduced, which is only for generic
bindings.
2026-07-22 16:45:00 +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
Chandler Carruth 366cb1010b Recover an incomplete lambda as a complete expression. (#7435)
A lambda introducer (`fn` in expression context) with no parameters and
no body -- for example `(fn)`, where `)` immediately follows `fn` --
left `HandleLambdaAfterParams` calling `ReturnErrorOnState()` without
ever emitting a `Lambda` node. The orphaned `LambdaIntroducer` leaf was
then left where an expression was required, so `Parse` produced a tree
that failed its own verification and aborted via `CARBON_FATAL`.

Recover the way `HandleLambdaBody` already does for a missing body after
a return type: emit a placeholder `InvalidParse` body and finish a
complete `Lambda` node, so the lambda stays a valid expression and the
surrounding construct (here a `ParenExpr`) extracts cleanly.

Found by fuzzing.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
2026-06-29 21:12:58 +00:00
1c7a4030ab Parse invalid lambdas without crashing (#6826)
Fixes a compiler crash that occurs when a malformed lambda is provided
as an operand to an operator that strictly expects an expression

Changes:
- Emits an `InvalidParse` dummy node at the current position to act as a
placeholder for the missing body
- Changed state transitions so that `LambdaIntroducer` gets properly
wrapped into a `Lambda` node


Closes #6823

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Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
2026-03-04 14:57:48 +00:00
Geoff Romer 4a0cf6c1fb Track the start of a signature more accurately (#6760)
This change ensures that a function signature always starts with an
`IdentifierNameMaybeBeforeSignature` node (renamed from
`IdentifierNameBeforeParams`), even in the case of function declarations
like `fn F -> T` that have no parameter list. As a consequence, this
ensures that we push new entries onto `pattern_block_stack` and
`full_pattern_stack` when we start processing the function signature.
2026-02-23 22:46:03 +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