The parser and lexer already produce YAML, so this is fundamentally a consistency issue. I've been thinking about this, and was looking again because I'm working on adding callables, and figured I'd just fix it now.
This switches to single list storage of SemanticsNode. The driving motivation behind this is to simplify cross-references within a given IR. Types of nodes will frequently refer to other blocks. This causes a significant increase in the number of cross-references, which can become difficult to manage (and reason about). By reducing to a single list of nodes, cross-references are only needed when crossing IR boundaries.
Because cross-references now only have 2 things to track (IR and index), they can be a regular SemanticsNode and don't need further indirection. This wasn't motivating, but feels like it reinforces the simplification.
Note this isn't being used to deduplicate nodes, at least right now. That could lead to difficult-to-update situations, but also most nodes are associated with the underlying ParseTree::Node in order to track sources for diagnostics; as a consequence, nodes representing equal text in different source locations wouldn't be the same node. There may be future opportunities here, discussed with @zygoloid, but no action is taken at present.
We may eventually want to switch the storage of NodeBlocks to have `[start, end)` ranges instead of individual numbers, but I'm leaving that alone for now.
As an aside, I noticed I was accidentally overloading the copy constructor on SemanticsIR. I've added some disambiguation on that, but am not deleting the copy constructor per style advice (even though the type should never be copied due to storage size).
codespell tries to change `CrossReference -> cross-reference` so disabling it there.
When binding a name, add it to name lookup. On NameReference nodes, use name lookup.
- Switches from "identifiers" to the more generic "strings". Not strictly necessary here, but it's the overall direction I think we've agreed upon and wanted to do it while building more support out.
- Starts doing deduplication of strings.
- On BindName, registers names with name lookup.
- Does name lookup based on the deduplicated string.
- Per discussion with zygoloid, design is intended to be constant-time lookup regardless of the number of parent scopes.
- Adds scopes so that we can track names which will be deregistered from lookup.
This is a first pass at what semantic type checking might look like. Types propagate along nodes, we use an InvalidType object when there's an error, and once there's an InvalidType we stop doing so much type checking.
This adds some RealLiteral handling in order to get type mismatches. I'm cautious about creating some real value for SemanticsIR (since the tokenized buffer version is a bit constrained), so I'm not doing that yet. But I will probably need to in order to maintain SemanticsIR having hermetic copies of its data, without a parse tree dependency.
Jon Ross-Perkins