This handles namespacing of functions. Parsing and semantics are changed
significantly, while lowering works without changes. Variables can't be
namespaced yet because they're dealing with patterns, and I didn't dig
through that code.
Most of the logic is done through the new name declaration stack, which
is necessary because semantics isn't quite sure where the declaration
name ends. It'd be complex for parsing to send a signal about this,
probably involving node variants and rewrites of the tree, and this
solution seems to work well. Unfortunately this means a new stack, but
that may be inevitable due to the extra information needing to be
tracked.
Note this doesn't deal with scoped lookups of non-namespace things,
which we'll need for generics. That'll probably involve pushing resolved
scopes onto a stack (or maybe just setting a singleton value?) to affect
contextual name lookup. But, I think the basics are there to make it
work when we can test the behavior.
This renames "designator expression" to "qualified expression" and adds
"qualified declaration" in order to use terminology more consistent with
C++.
Namespaces will probably need to be considered for name mangling down
the line, but this still uses the basic name.
This PR renames parse nodes on a Name/NameExpression taxonomy. NameExpressions occur in a name context. The difference is that in non-expression contexts it's useful to return the identifier / string ID for adding to name lookup, whereas in expression contexts it's useful to return the resolved node ID for consistency with other expressions.
In the code, I do note SelfValueName is returned in the expression context: I'd expect this to change, as `self` in `[self: Self]` versus `self.Foo()` will probably be best handled similarly to the above. That means that, in the proposed taxonomy, both `SelfValueName` and `SelfValueNameExpression` will exist in order to assist semantics.
To contrast choices:
Original | Current | [zygoloid suggestion](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1121581663399464970) | [This PR](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1121814551789318215)
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DeclaredName/DesignatedName | Identifier | NameComponent | Name
NameReference | NameReference | NameReference | NameExpression
SelfValueIdentifier | SelfValueIdentifier | SelfValueReference | SelfValueName
SelfTypeIdentifier | SelfTypeIdentiifer | SelfTypeReference | SelfTypeNameExpression
This is just a simplification: I think these different forms are getting in the way more than they're helping, particularly as I was looking into namespace functionality. The handling in semantics can be identical, providing a more uniform behavior.
The goal of this change is to start refactoring the monolithic file into separate files that will hopefully pose fewer conflicts for developers, and make it easier to skip to handling of specific functionality. It additionally addresses a scaling issue with parser.cpp where the file would continue to get larger as more features are added.
Switches Parser to a ParserContext, moves handlers to be free functions, and moves the controller logic into ParseTree. parser_handle_states.h does the declarations for handlers and little else; handlers are split out to individual files based on prefix (which is deliberately authored to cluster).
A couple things I'm avoiding based on historical discussion are:
- Having a subdirectory for all the handlers, such as `toolchain/parser/handlers/call_expression.cpp`
- Putting handlers in a namespace, such as `Carbon::ParserHandler::CallExpression`.
- The name of `Carbon::ParserHandlerCallExpression` is then necessary to minimize the chance of conflicts with semantics and lowering, where everything can be expected to be named similarly.
I'm globbing handlers because it seems hard to see missed ones under this approach -- names are too boilerplate.
I think this current setup could be split into target-per-file, but I'm not sure that's needed, so I'd delay until it becomes a build-time issue.
Jon Ross-Perkins