Currently each interface has a `Self` facet internally that becomes a
binding to every entity inside the interface: associated constants,
functions, and require decls. Each of these has to be independently
generic as a result. This makes is challenging in extended name lookup
to move into an extended scope of an interface, as we have a specific
for the interface, but the names within require a different specific
that includes a `Self` facet value.
We generalize this relationship by adding a second generic to Interface,
called `generic_with_self`. When we want to work with entities inside
the interface, we move from the interface-without-specific to the
interface-with-self specific by adding a Self to the specific. This is
done independently of any particular entity inside the Interface, as
those entities are now all members of the interface-with-self generic.
Associated constants no longer need a generic of their own, as they do
not have separate generic bindings. Functions retain a generic, but if
the function has no generic arguments, it will have no bindings of its
own now.
Require decls retain a generic so that their specific can be
instantiated separately from the interface. Requiring the interface to
be complete does not require the types in a require decl to be complete
unless it is modified by `extend`. So we allow them to be completed
later by keeping them in a separate generic.
Named constraints look like interfaces and gain the additional inner
generic-with-self, with the same relationship to require decls.
This removes the need for name lookup to perform Substitution of a Self
facet into the extended scope instruction. Instead, the
`SpecificConstant` instruction inserted by a `require` decl is part of
the interface-with-self generic. When looking through a FacetType for
extended scopes, for each interface, we push the scope with the specific
for the interface-with-self. Then the constant value of the
`SpecificConstant` is correctly modified by the provided self
automatically through applying that specific.
Identifying a facet type takes both a self and facet type as a pair, and
then encode the self into the IdentifiedFacetType. This makes a
constraint that requires some _other_ type implements an interface
visible in the IdentifiedFacetType. And it will help to enable facet
types with `where T impls Z` for `T` that is not `.Self` in the future.
IdentifiedFacetTypes are now stored in a CanonicalValueStore instead of
a RelationalValueStore as they key is the combination of self and
(declared) facet type together now.
When the self-type is a facet value (has type FacetType) this is most
straightforward. But when it's a type we need to construct a FacetValue
to construct a specific for a require decl, to replace the generic
binding of the symbolic `Self`, which has type FacetType. To do so, we
make a FacetValue with an empty FacetType (equivalent to TypeType). This
prevents any looking for witnesses through the FacetType, which matches
what you can get from a type directly, requiring witnesses to come from
finding an `impl` decl.
Add additional InstNamer logic for such empty facet types so they print
as `<typename>.type.facet` if possible instead of as just `facet_value`.
If an interface contains `require impls`, then implementing the
interface requires each of the `require impls` statements to be true at
the point of the impl definition for the containing interface.
We give `Self` in an interface/constraint a location so it's not elided
when trying to dump the interface/constraint. We use the location of the
start of the definition, which is the scope for which the `Self` is
constructed and is available in.
Type check named constraint decls and definitions. We don't correctly
error if you put a `fn` inside them. There is no support for `require`
or `alias` yet, so there's nothing useful you can do with them yet.
We have attempted to share code between `interface` and `constraint` as
they are quite similar. First by splitting out some of
handle_interface.cpp to a separate file. Second by sharing some code
paths when you want a facet type from either one, as they both turn into
a facet type.
This allows the numbering of the parameters to match when checking for a
valid redeclaration. It also prepares us to produce the proper numbering
when generating a thunk.
For an expression such as `(Type as Interface).AssocFn()`, track the
`Self` type `Type` in the result of the member access so that it's
available when checking the function call.
This introduces a new kind of type, `ImplFunctionType`, that represents
the type of a function that is expected within an impl, modeled as the
type of the function within the interface plus a value to use as `Self`.
Calls to values of this type behave like calls to the underlying
function except that the `Self` parameter is pre-bound to the self type
from the facet.
In order to support this, fix an issue where the imported list of
generic bindings lost their association with their enclosing generic.
This adds a little complexity to `import_ref`, including a new recursive
cycle that I intend to address in a follow-up PR.
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Add a full entity representation for associated constants, and build a
`Generic` object for them. This `Generic` is parameterized by the
enclosing `Self` type, allowing the use of `Self` within the type of the
associated constant to be supported.
When performing impl lookup for an associated constant, produce the type
with the provided self type substituted for its `Self` along with any
generic parameters of the interface.
Split the handling of associated constant declarations into two parts,
corresponding to the code before the `=`, and the code between the `=`
and `;` (if any). The former goes into the generic declaration region;
the latter into the generic definition region. This prepares us to
handle the default value for an associated constant, but for now we're
just storing the information and not actually using it.
Remove the entity type field from `assoc_entity_type`, because it's
almost unused and is an attractive nuisance -- it must necessarily be a
type in the generic scope of the associated constant rather than in the
scope of the instruction (because there is no `Self` anywhere else),
which means that it's hard to substitute into or derive meaning from.
See `toolchain/check/testdata/impl/assoc_const_self.carbon` for tests of
the new functionality; these used to cause the toolchain to crash.
When declaring an associated entity in an interface -- just associated
functions for now -- create an associated entity value and corresponding
type to represent a "slot in a witness table". Also track the list of
associated entities on the interface so that we will eventually be able
to check impls against them.
Associated entities are represented as the integer index of their slot
in a witness table.
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Dana Jansens
Jon Ross-Perkins
Richard Smith