Update broken links to aid in following links while perusing the
documentation. Closes#3778
I don't imagine I got every one of these right. Some 404s may be
reported due to permissions.
Using the lychee command in #3778, only the following link is reported
as not found, but it's just a permission issue:
```
[proposals/p1367.md]:
✗ [404] https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/settings/access | Failed: Network error: Not Found
```
I tried to get it down to as few as possible, partially so that future
link scans won't run into repeat errors.
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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
Includes proposals:
- #990
- #2188
- #2138
- #2200
- #2360
- #2760
- #2964
- #3162
Also tries to use more precise language when talking about:
- implementations, to avoid confusing `impl` declaration and definitions
with the `impls` operator used in `where` clauses, an issue brought up
in #2495 and #2483;
- "binding patterns", like `x: i32`, and "bindings" like `x`.
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Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
First step in updating `docs/design/generics/details.md`. It
incorporates changes from proposals: #989#2138#2173#2200#2360#2964#3162 , but there are still more changes from those proposals to be
made.
It also switches away from suggesting static-dispatch witness tables,
and creates an appendix to describe that decision.
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Change terminology away from terms that are ambiguous:
- Reserve "generic type" for types with (compile-time) parameters, like
`Vector` in `Vector(T:! type)`. Don't use that term to refer to `T`, as
it would with
[#2360](https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/blob/trunk/proposals/p2360.md#terminology).
- Use the term "compile-time" instead of "constant" to mean "template or
symbolic." Expand the term "constant" to include values, such as from
`let` bindings.
Introduce a concrete design for how Carbon values, objects, storage,
variables,
and pointers will work. This includes fleshing out the design for:
- The expression categories used in Carbon to represent values and
objects,
how they interact, and terminology that anchors on their expression
nature.
- An expression category model for readonly, abstract values that can
efficiently support function inputs.
- A customization system for value expression representations,
especially as
seen on function boundaries in the calling convention.
- An expression category model for references instead of a type system
model.
- How patterns match different expression categories.
- How initialization works in conjunction with function returns.
- Specific pointer syntax, semantics, and library customization
mechanisms.
- A `const` type qualifier for use when the value expression category
system
is too abstracted from the underlying objects in storage.
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Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
Co-authored-by: josh11b <josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Adrien Leravat <Pixep@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Make the preamble of simple programs more ergonomic, by removing the
`package Main` from the main package and removing the `package`
declaration
entirely from the main source file. Imports within a single package no
longer
need to, and are not permitted to, specify the package name.
Partially covers #2001 / #1136.
Covers #1869.
Supersedes #2265.
Addresses design idea #2323.
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Co-authored-by: josh11b <josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
This includes:
- Syntax changes from this chart:
| Before | After |
| ------------------------------- | --------------------------------------- |
| `class D extends B { ... }` | `class D { extend base: B; ... }` |
| `external impl C as Sub;` | `impl C as Sub;` |
| `class C { impl as Sortable; }` | `class C { extend impl as Sortable; }` |
| `adapter A for C { ... }` | `class A { adapt C; ... }` |
| `adapter A extends C { ... }` | `class A { extend adapt C; ... }` |
| `interface I { impl as J; }` | `interface I { require Self impls J; }` |
| `interface I { extends J; }` | `interface I { extend J; }` |
- Dropping the syntax for conditionally implemented internal interfaces.
This does not include:
- terminology changes from #2760 ("internal" and "external")
- changes to code, such as explorer, toolchain, language grammars, or other tooling
Use the keyword `impls` instead of `is` when writing a `where` constraint that a type variable needs to implement an interface or named constraint.
What was previously (provisionally) written:
```
fn Sort[T:! Container where .ElementType is Ordered](x: T*);
```
will now be written:
```
fn Sort[T:! Container where .ElementType impls Ordered](x: T*);
```
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Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
This tries to make it clearer that user code is responsible for ignoring observable differences between the possible behaviors, and uses "alias" instead of "pointer" to describe the reference-like option. It also avoids taking a stance on how we address the possibility of the original value being mutated after it is aliased.
Statements, declarations, and definitions will terminate with either a semicolon
(`;`) or a close curly brace (`}`). Semicolons are never optional.
For example, with a semicolon, `x = x + 2;`. With a close curly brace,
`for ( ... ) { ... }`, or `class C { ...}`.
This does not affect any approved proposal; rather, it makes an important
assumption explicit.
Based on lead decision #1924Fixes#2002
Assignment is permitted only as a complete statement, not as a subexpression.
Assignment and compound assignment syntax follow C++ in all other respects.
Pre-increment is provided. Post-increment is not. Uses of all of these operators
are translated into calls to interface members.
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Also make minor updates to the skeletal design in
docs/design/name_lookup.md following #2113, as there are no longer any prelude names that are made available to unqualified name lookup by default.
Add `type` to the keyword list in
docs/design/lexical_conventions/words.md, following #2360.
Follow-on to change #2410 which created the `expressions/literals.md` home for literal expressions. Incorporates the decision in #2113 to address a TODO.
Update the design documentation to reflect #2274.
The contents are largely copy-pasted from p2274.md with minor edits, but the "Open questions" section is new.
A few changes:
- Merge content from the `primitive_types.md` design doc into the overall design `README.md` since there was so much overlap and no need for two copies.
- Consistently spell integer types `Carbon.Int(N)` and `Carbon.UInt(N)`, including the `Carbon.` prefix and avoiding `Unsigned(N)`.
- Consistently use a comprehensive set of floating-point types.
- Incorporates #2015 into the design docs.
Previous overview is changed to an introduction that includes a modified first example, and adding a brief tour of Carbon in the form of an explanation of the features demonstrated in that example. Also update to reflect that we expect `Print` to be available in some package imported by default, which we are currently calling `Carbon`.
Co-authored-by: Wolff Dobson <wolffg@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Also references were added to clarify that some features are not provisional.
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
The original sentence was grammatically unsound, specified the three options of copy, move or pointer binding in parenthesis and some words around it.
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Fix `-` -> `+` in `Distance`. Typo noticed by gingerBill in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_8lV0nwsc4 .
Also update factory function names `Create` -> `Make`, to reflect latest thinking.
This follows #1274 , #1325 , #1328 , #1336 , and #1347 . This has miscellaneous changes to the design overview without a particular focus.
Also adds some missing keywords to our list of keywords.
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
This follows #1274 , #1325 , and #1328 . It fills in the "Bidirectional interoperability with C and C++" section.
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
This follows #1274 and #1325 and fills in the "safety" section. It only covers our approach in general terms.
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
This follows #1274 . It mainly fills in the "generics" section, with smaller updates to other section.
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
Reorganizes the sections, and makes a pass filling in and updating the first sections including: types, functions, user-defined types. The following sections are left for part 2, including names, generics, and interop.
Also some smaller updates to, not revisiting the text: `pattern_matching.md`, `control_flow/return.md`, and `lexical_conventions/numeric_literals.md`
Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
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