At present, `var *;` is a crash because it has errors that weren't being properly stored/handled. This changes the handling to give more to track invalid parses in patterns.
The problem I'm trying to solve is: `var x: i32 = x;`. This change makes it so that name lookup fails, by removing `x` from name lookup between the `=` and `;`.
`var x: i32` still adds to name lookup to handle future situations like `var (x: i32, x: i32);` which is still a redefinition of `x`; if we don't add `x` to name lookup, it gets harder to catch that example.
The VariableDeclaration/VariableInitializer refactor in ParseTree supports this by given a bracketing-like structure for semantics to cue that it's entering an initialization expression. With this, VariableInitializer can remove the name lookup and queue it to be restored. VariableDeclaration doesn't need to change too much since it's still bracketed by VariableIntroducer, and so we just traverse slightly differently.
Note this also incidentally changes a little about NameReference, that it's returning the storage consistently instead of the name. You can see this e.g. in global_lookup.carbon, `Assign(node8, node4): node2;` using node4 (VarStorage) instead of Node5 (BindName). Really either _could_ work, since from a BindName we can get to the VarStorage, and that may be reason to switch later if we find it preferable to have the BindName for whatever reason.
But the *actual* value in NameLookup is a BindName so that errors can associate with the _name_ instead of the "storage" parse node, which is currently the `:`. This is mainly for fail_duplicate_decl.carbon, which has a "Previous definition" note that points at the storage's parse node.
- Finishes remaining "todo" parse nodes.
- Improving error recovery for invalid designators and structs, so that the parse tree still looks similar to a valid parse tree.
- Call expressions now have the thing being called as a child (of the start) instead of a sibling.
- Use of Start is replacing use of End in several parse nodes, like structs and call expressions.
- Adjusting documentation of parse node structures in an attempt to make it more consistent and understandable.
- The current state for interfaces and if/else is mostly being documented, not altered.
This works on multiple statements to make them better for the bracketing model. Stub nodes are added in more cases of invalid syntax, simply so that the semantics has reliably structured input. Comments in parse_node_kind.def now try to show the expected parse tree structure in postorder form.
This labels If, While, and For a little differently in parse nodes so that at the start of the postorder traversal, it'll already be available to semantics which structure is being processed. I need to do a little more with If in particular, but this felt like a reasonable stopping point.
While this makes significant parser changes, the changes to parser_state.def are minimal, mostly naming-related. The actual flow isn't substantively changed, just a couple minor names and the new As(If|While) state which allows distinguishing IfCondition and WhileCondition.
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
The ParseTree comments say that preorder is "easier to visualize and read". The problem is, both the ParseTree and Semantics need to operate on the postorder traversal: the ParseTree during construction, and the Semantics during processing. As a consequence, understanding the postorder traversal is important, but it's also very hard to decipher when presented preorder. This PR provides a way to see the postorder, with helpful indents to show subtrees.
This retains the preorder printing as an option for people who prefer that. I'm pretty sure it'll be easier to debug tests if we can see the postorder, so I'm making that the default.
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Jon Ross-Perkins
