- Rename `ActionIsDependent` to `ActionIsPerformable` (with negated
meaning), because that name is more concrete and, um, actionable.
- Replace `OperandIsDependent` with `OperandDependence`, which returns a
`ConstantDependence` instead of a bool. We need this additional
generality for handling form actions, where we sometimes need to ask
whether something has _any_ dependence, not just whether it has template
dependence.
This makes them part of the identified facet type, and we can see the
constraints as part of stringify and format output.
But this does not do enough to make them useful yet: Any `T impls X`
constraint must contain a reference to `.Self` somewhere. And `.Self`
references do not get substituted, so neither `T(.Self) impls X` and `T
impls X(.Self)` will match against an incoming facet value derived from
an `impl T(U) as X` or `impl T as X(U)`, since `U` and `.Self` are never
the same thing until `.Self` can be substituted.
Now that impl lookup runs into facet values containing `.Self` (a
symbolic binding), such as in `C(.Self)`, we were crashing assuming the
type of `.Self` is a FacetType, but it can be `type` in the case of
`type where C(.Self) impls...`. Instead, use an empty facet type for the
type of `.Self` so it is always a facet. This assists with substituting
other facets into it, without having to insert an extra FacetAccessType.
`MakePeriodSelfFacetValue()` now enforces this requirement.
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This splits off the functionality to handle the base facet type,
rewrites, and impls constraints into separate functions.
We use the Context instead of EvalContext throughout, as the goal is to
move this code to EvalConstantInst in time. That means we do not apply
specifics to the functions in the requirements inst block. That is fine
because WhereExpr never evaluates to an WhereExpr, so this instruction
never survives as a constant value long enough to be re-evaluated with a
specific applied to it.
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.
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This makes it possible to do const eval when calling a constexpr C++
function with params and return types other than 32/64-bit integers.
Most of the new logic is in `MaybeModifyCppThunkCallForConstEval`, which
is called by `MakeConstantForCall`. This checks if the callee is a C++
thunk (using a new `SpecialFunctionKind::CppThunk` variant), and if so
it:
* Changes the callee from the C++ thunk to the thunk's callee
* Remaps parameters that are passed by pointer to the thunk to the
underlying value
* Drops the return value parameter, if present
This removes some loops in type completion, but is motivated by the
thought that eval probably wants to query it.
Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini
Ignore storage arguments when evaluating a call, like we do for other
kinds of instruction. Create a placeholder constant to represent each
out parameter so that it can be used in the function body to form more
storage arguments.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
When a `var` is not explicitly given an initializer, initialize it in
one of two ways:
* If its type implements the new interface `Core.Default`, call
`Core.Default.Op` to initialize it.
* Otherwise, if its type implements `UnformedInit`, leave it in an
unformed state. For now, this is always an uninitialized state, but that
will change in the future.
* If neither of those apply, the `var` declaration is ill-formed.
This is a step towards implementing leads decision #6739 and proposals
#257 and #5913.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
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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.
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.
Add support for `BranchWithArg` and `BlockArg` during compile-time
function execution. We only track the most recent block arg value for
now, because that's all we need -- we never look at a block argument for
any block other than the current one.
Also refactor `FunctionExecContext` to better encapsulate the blocks
list.
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
Mainly because "sorting_diagnostic_consumer" is legacy, since
`SortingDiagnosticConsumer` became `SortingConsumer`. Also better
reflecting contents of these files.
Where I'm not renaming, I'm less positive about dropping "diagnostics"
from "file_diagnostics" and "null_diagnostics" (which contain both a
consumer and emitter, and "null.h" seems like poor naming), so not doing
that here. Also "diagnostic.h" contains `struct Diagnostic`, so is a
decent fit.
Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
Add a new builtin function `cpp.std.initializer_list.make` that takes an
array and returns a `std::initializer_list`, initialized to refer to
that array. When C++ initialization wants to perform a
`std::initializer_list`-from-array construction, synthesize a
declaration of a matching builtin function and use that to perform the
initialization.
Ideally we would specify this conversion as an impl of `ImplicitAs` in
the prelude instead of hardcoding it in the interop layer, but
unfortunately that's not currently possible, for various reasons -- we
can't make the conversion form-generic, we can't deduce the array length
from the initializer, and we can't deduce against the arguments of
imported C++ class templates yet -- so for now synthesizing a builtin
function on demand is the best we can do.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro via Antigravity
This pull request adds support for integer-to-char conversion, allowing
the compiler to correctly handle character casting, implementing part of
the issue #5922.
```carbon
import Core library "io";
fn Run() -> i32 {
var i : i32 = 65;
var ch: char = (i as char); // Support implemented!
Core.PrintChar(ch); // Print 'A'
return 0;
}
```
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Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
Support an implicit conversion from `T*` to `Cpp.void*` and to `const
Cpp.void*`, and an `unsafe as` conversion in the opposite direction.
In order to support C++ calls taking and returning `void*` (which get
mapped to Carbon `Optional(Cpp.void*)`, also support conversions from
`Optional(T)` to `Optional(U)` if there's a conversion from `T` to `U`.
Fix a bug in `OptionalStorage` for `T*` where its `HasValue` was exactly
backwards.
Pursuant to recent decisions on #6124, switch `Destroy` to use a
`CustomWitness` for its implementation. Right now this is manufacturing
no-op implementation functions on each lookup, which obviously isn't
ideal but is intended as a first pass. I'm mostly trying to find the
right balance between updating the approach to reflect new decisions,
while still breaking apart work in a way.
The `CoreInterface` logic is intended to build on `CoreIdentifier`
support. We have a number of additional interfaces that require
specialized logic, and that'll extend pretty far with C++ interop, so it
seemed easiest to have a generic function for it. That's what's
replacing the logic inside C++ interop that was doing string comparisons
(which could have already been moved to `CoreIdentifier`, I just missed
it in my first pass).
This adds `CustomWitness` support because the `Destroy` witnesses can be
imported cross-file. `CustomWitness` was previously only used for C++
types, which don't yet support import, which is why that wasn't
previously an issue. The addition of `query_specific_interface_id` is
similarly needed in order to get correct sorting of witness blocks when
imported.
This PR also removes builtin constraint logic (note this is in a
separate commit to help review; it's not a separate PR because it's
difficult to split apart without tests breaking). This had been made
generic with the expectation that destroy, copy, move, and conversions
would all need related support. Under the new decision, we are not going
to do blanket impls and will instead just manufacture a `CustomWitness`
for everything.
A lot of SemIR fingerprints change, but that's probably because the
addition of `Destroy` on core classes is yielding structural changes.
Don't CHECK-fail when trying to format invalid SemIR with an ImplWitness
whose table_id isn't an ImplWitnessTable. We use SemIR formatting as a
debugging aid, so it's good for it to be robust even in the presence of
invalid SemIR.
Don't crash if a typed instruction has no type_id field and has a
constant kind of Always. We don't have any instructions like that at the
moment.
These caused problems while working on #6451, and while I ended up not
needing either fix for that PR, they both seem like they may be worth
keeping to save some trouble for the next person who hits these.
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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.
The to_array was mainly needed for zip_equal, and the
GetBlockAsTypeInstIds is forming a vector that should also be size two.
But just writing this out should avoid memory allocations.
Of course, then I'm like "but maybe a lambda or function would be
clearer than a for loop"... So the second commit.
There are two uses I'm not converting here, that seem to want the
"shortest" behavior. For everything else, I'm going to `zip_equal` since
it's more restrictive.
I wish `zip` were named `zip_shortest`.
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.
#6289 absentmindedly added fields in more places, and this is undoing
that plus further fixes.
This does some cleanup of types with relation to singletons. For
`TypeType` and `ErrorInst`, they're always complete due to a
`SetComplete` call in `file.cpp`. For `CppVoidType`, it's intended to be
incomplete by construction, and so a `TypeId` should be okay. The intent
though on not generally providing these had been that `GetSingletonType`
needs to be called to get a type to be marked as complete.
In the case of `AutoType`, removing `TypeId`does change a small printing
detail. I think that's old legacy that's just been carried forward.
Otherwise, for both `InstType` and `AutoType`, I've added
`GetSingletonType` calls where they were used in order to ensure
completeness is applied correctly. These calls cause small SemIR
permutations.
This causes `AutoType` to be seen by lowering, so I'm adding a
placeholder for it. Also merging two functions that look like they're
identical in intent -- not sure why they're separate.
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SymbolicBindingType evaluates to the type component of a symbolic facet
value (a type/witnesses pair), and that symbolic facet value has its
constant value replaced by a specific. That specific can provide a
FacetValue, in which case it just evaluates to that FacetValue's type
component. It can provide a BindSymbolicName of another binding, in
which case it points to that entity instead and awaits a further
specific. Currently the code only handles these two cases, and they
match the behaviour of the evaluation of FacetAccessType itself.
However FacetAccessType evaluation also handles cases beyond these, as
there are other instructions that occur as facet values, such as
ImplWitnessAccess, when accessing an associated constant of an interface
that has a facet type as its type.
Currently eval then crashes in this scenario. Instead of furthering to
reproduce the contents of FacetAccessType's evaluation, defer to calling
the `EvalConstantInst()` overload for it when evaluating
SymbolicBindingType against a new value from a specific. This means
SymbolicBindingType can evaluate back into a FacetAccessType, when it
was originally a FacetAccessType(BindSymbolicName) and becomes
FacetAccessType(ImplWitnessAccess) through a specific.
This comes with a test that crashed in eval before this change.
In preparation for modeling `Optional(T*)` as a null pointer value.
With this PR, pointers remain non-nullable, but `MaybeUnformed(T*)` has
a particular unformed state that has the same representation as a C++
null pointer, which is accessible and detectable via builtins.
The SymbolicBindingType refers to the type value that will be
substituted in for the BindSymbolicName, but holds onto the EntityNameId
from the BindSymbolicName instead of (or in addition to, for now) the
instruction.
The EntityNameId will be used to look in the ScopeStack to find the
witnesses either from the BindSymbolicName instruction, or other
instructions that specify `impls` constraints against the EntityName.
This will allow us to have the `T` in `I(T)` resolve to a `.Self`
reference in the type so that we get type equality with the binding's
type: `T:! I(.Self)`.
Previously it performed two kinds of operations, with a boolean
parameter to control whether it would unwrap FacetValue or not. This
made the function hard to explain as "canonicalization".
Now the contract of GetCanonicalFacetOrTypeValue is as follows:
1. For a facet value expression, it returns the canonical value of the
facet value.
2. For a `<facet value> as type` it returns the canonical value of the
`<facet value>`.
3. For other type expressions, it returns the canonical value of the
type.
1 and 2 together collapse together two representations of a facet value
(as a FacetType or as a TypeType) into a single canonical value, which
is important for constant comparison of facet values where the `as type`
is not meant to change the result. This is the case in impl lookups and
`.Self` comparisons.
The step of unwrapping `FacetValue` is only useful in the constant
evaluation of `LookupImplWitness` and is used to collapse *symbolic*
queries on `FacetValue(T)` and on `T` down to a single canonical value,
since they produce the same result later when `T` is replaced with a
facet value or type that can provide a concrete witness. This is now
extensively documented in the constant evaluation of
`LookupImplWitness`.
This change came out of a request/discussion in #6115 (see comment
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/6115#discussion_r2383696576).
This also does a little restructuring in the same direction, following
#6124.
Leads want `Destroy` to work similarly now for all types. As a
consequence, there doesn't seem to be as much benefit to splitting off
aggregate destruction. In this PR, the `type.destroy` function can now
be expected to destroy anything that's destructible; that means it'll be
usable for the `final fn` once that support is available.
Similarly, this gets rid of the impls other than the single blanket
impl, now using `type.can_destroy`. Since they all need to use the same
function, there's no benefit to splitting approaches. Also, now it can
just be a `final impl` since there should be no need for people to
create specializations -- if this blanket impl applies, it means the
`final fn` is the same.
This also slips in `partial` support since there's no reason to have it
diverge anymore. Also `abstract`, which I'm not sure is broadly testable
since most cases it'd come up, the `abstract` keyword is explicitly
detected/rejected.
Note though that this doesn't make any really big changes. It's just
realigning on the leads decision. I'm going this way to try to reduce
name-related churn for other changes.
This is in support of a goal of changing the blanket `destroy` impl to
use (roughly):
```
private fn CanAggregateDestroy() -> type = "type.can_aggregate_destroy";
// Handles aggregate type destruction.
impl forall [AggregateDestroyT:! CanAggregateDestroy()] AggregateDestroyT as Destroy {
fn Op[addr self: Self*]() = "type.aggregate_destroy";
}
```
That isn't done here because there's still other issues that migrating
raises. What this *does* do is add the builtin functions, and in
particular, support to `FacetTypeInfo` to make `CanAggregateDestroy`
work.
The "special requirement" approach in `FacetTypeInfo` allows us to
support restricting a blanket impl under the current approach of impls.
Maybe we'll find a cleaner approach that can work in the future, but
this fits into the current model by propagating similar to other
requirements. I'm using an enum mask because we have a number of similar
things to add (e.g. copy, move) but I'm not sure we need a full vector.
A few alternatives considered were:
- Supporting syntax more like `where .Self impls
TypeCanAggregateDestroy(.Self, SupportedInterface,
UnsupportedInterface)`. I think it'd be a little cleaner, but requires
better compile-time evaluation in order to assess the type of the call.
Right now it's expected to be a `FacetType` too early to make this work,
and I was concerned about pouring too much more time down this route.
- Providing an actual interface, in particular doing name lookup back
into `Core.` for an interface. This would've added name lookup overhead,
and the question of whether an `impl` exists.
- Generating an interface. This avoids the name lookup, but would still
raise the question of whether an `impl` should also be generated. Work
I've previously done generating interfaces for class destruction also
feels complex to both write and understand (an unfortunate issue).
- Still modeling as an `ImplsConstraint`, for example by defining a
special `InterfaceId::CanAggregateDestroy = -2` similar to what we do on
other ids. I was hesitant because of how this expands the number of
modes of `InterfaceId`, and things for consuming code to watch out for,
for what feels like a relatively niche set of use-cases that are only
interface-like.
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Instead of hardcoding which types are copyable, add a `Core.Copy`
interface to perform copying. Move almost all the current copy support
to that interface. Some remaining pieces are still using builtin logic
after this PR:
* For tuples and structs, builtin logic is used to perform elementwise
copies. This also supports copying *adapters of* tuples and structs,
which seems like it may not be desirable, especially for non-extending
adapters. A `Copy` impl is provided for tuples of at most 2 elements, so
that `Core.Copy` constraints are satisfied, but we can't implement this
generally until we have variadics support, and don't yet have a
mechanism to generalize this to structs.
* For `enum` types imported from C++, builtin logic is used to perform a
copy. This is temporary until we have a mechanism to identify these
types from an impl in the prelude.
One lowering test in `toolchain/lower/testdata/class/generic.carbon` is
disabled for now, as it causes a crash in the lowering code due to an
ABI mismatch between the call signature in the lowered declaration of a
specific function and the call that is generated in the specific callee.
Fixing this is a little involved, and will be done in a separate PR.
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This type has the same object representation as `T`, but always uses a
pointer type as its value representation. No other semantics are
provided for it yet.
Generalize the f64 support to support other sizes. Also provide interop
support for `float`, `_Float16`, and `__float128`.
Also lay some groundwork for non-standard floating-point types, though
we don't have any syntax to name them yet.
Don't convert to f64 until we know that's the type that we actually
want. Also reimplement the conversion from RealId to FloatId to perform
an exact conversion with a real check for overflow, rather than
performing an approximate conversion via the host `double` type.
Unfortunately, LLVM doesn't expose its integer mantissa and exponent to
APFloat conversion, so we convert the RealId back to a string for now.
The LLVM conversion also detects overflow only if the literal would
round to having an out-of-range exponent, not if the literal is outside
the range of values of the type as the Carbon design expects. It's not
clear to me which rule we actually want here, so for simplicitly I'm
using the LLVM rule for now.
In preparation for adding other floating-point types beyond f64.
* Rename the type.
* Change lowering to lower FloatLiteralType values as the placeholder
`{}` value we use for literals instead of as an LLVM f64.
* Change eval to convert the type as part of a floating point
conversion, so that lowering can lower converted constants properly.
For now we still represent a value of FloatLiteralType as a
double-precision APFloat. (That will need to change so that we can
losslessly convert literals to f80 / f128 values, and so that we can
convert literals to f32 values without double-rounding.)
Add missing builtins for float compound assignment, for building a
FloatType, and for converting a float literal to FloatType. Switch
`Core.Float` to being a class and add impls for the various
floating-point operators.
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This makes all `.Self` references in a facet type canonically the same
(which will remain true iff they refer to the same `Self` type in the
future), removing the need to do more complex comparisons between them
using the EntityName, interface, and index. This allows the comparison
of types containing `.Self` references to be done correctly regardless
of where the `.Self` appears, as such type expressions will all be
canonically equal if they otherwise equal now, regardless of whether
they are written in the context where `.Self` could have seen different
`Self` facet types.
In order to retain access to constraints on a base `.Self` facet type,
in the case of applying `where` to an existing facet type, we:
- Give the base facet type as a `RequirementBaseFacetType` constraint so
that eval of `WhereExpr` can find and copy all the constraints off of
it.
- Introduce eager/early rewrite constraint resolution, which allows a
constraint to eagerly resolve access to earlier rewrite constraints
(`where .A = () and .B = .A` is eagerly transformed into `where .A = ()
and .B = ()`) before the full constraint resolution step. This allows
use of rewrite constraints in larger type expressions, such as `where .A
= () and .B = C(.A)` and `C` will know that the argument is `()`.
toolchain/check/testdata/builtins/char/basics.carbon and
toolchain/lower/testdata/builtins/char.carbon are probably the most
interesting tests here. The parse tests is required because this adds a
new node kind, and we need coverage of it; but the attached info is
minor. There's a fair amount of test churn here because I'm adding the
Core.Char and Core.CharLiteral types as new singletons.
My intent here is that `CharId` is always a unicode code point, even
when the type is a `Char` and thus must be a single UTF-8 code unit
(single byte). This mainly means the stored value of a `CharValue` can
be printed internally without knowing the type.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
In preparation for `FloatValue` being used more generally, and not only
for literals.
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