Basic support for declaring, specifying the values of, and using associated constants.
This is incomplete in various ways. For example, when checking whether a type satisfies a constraint, there is no check that its associated constants match those in the constraint, and name lookup into a value whose type is an associated constant is not supported yet.
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
`.Self` is modeled as a new kind of expression, `DotSelfExpression`. Name resolution associates each occurrence of a `DotSelfExpression` with a generic binding, much like for an `IdentifierExpression`.
Both `:!` bindings and `where` expressions bring `.Self` into scope. The tentative intent is that if there are multiple `.Self`s in scope and they refer to different bindings, the result of using a `.Self` expression is an ambiguity error, but that is not implemented in this patch. Instead, like for `IdentifierExpression`s, we find the innermost enclosing definition of `.Self`.
`.Foo` expressions are rewritten to `.Self.Foo`, but this isn't enough to make them do anything useful, because associated constants aren't supported in general yet.
Build constraint types from `where` expressions. This is very bare-bones; there's no support for constraining `.Self` or associated types yet, but degenerate cases not involving self-reference work.
`==` constraints are syntactically supported but not semantically verified yet, and they aren't used for anything.
Add scaffolding for constraints in general, and support specifically constraints formed by applying a `&` operator.
No support for constraints formed with `where` nor for named constraints at this point.
Josh Soref
Richard SmithandJon Ross-Perkins