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>
The syntax permitted in an `interface` is similar to, but different from, that permitted elsewhere. For example, associated constant declarations (`let T:! Type;`) with no initializers are valid in interfaces but nowhere else, and are a different kind of declaration from what a normal `let` declaration would produce both syntactically and semantically.
Because interfaces and impls permit only a very small subset of the complete set of kinds of declaration, it's simpler to list only the kinds that are permitted rather than to allow an arbitrary declaration and semantically disallow the invalid cases, and it's also likely to lead to better error messages as we won't try to parse unintended or meaningless things.
Richard SmithandJon Ross-Perkins