Setting "type" to bright red to make comparison obvious:
(screenshots taken from VSCode)
Before
<img width="446" height="150" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-20 135558"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/81249005-99f1-47bb-af4f-ad6e8f2404fb"
/>
After
<img width="429" height="149" alt="Screenshot 2026-07-20 135738"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/acc83086-fe19-4a18-a833-968daed56229"
/>
I'm not super familiar with textmate/highlightjs, but I think what was
happening on line 5 is that the "type" scope is being extended to the
`=` after `.y`.
Adding `,` as an "end" token fixes this, and I think this is what
highlightjs already does.
I've also added "unused" as a keyword.
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
TextMate doesn't support JSON grammars, so convert our JSON grammar to a
plist automatically as a pre-commit check. Fix malformed info.plist
file. Add missing uuid to grammar file.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
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Chandler Carruth
Richard Smith