A nested designator like `.(X.X1).(Y.Y1)` results in nested
ImplWitnessAccess instructions, which can produce cycles in the
toolchain easily when replacing `.Self`.
First, when constructing a facet type like `V:! Z where .Z1 impls (Y
where .Y1 = U)` we substitute replace `.Self` in the nested facet type,
and in this case we replace `.Self` with `.Z1` which contains a `.Self`
of its own. This was coming from us being lazy about replacing `.Self`
in an `impl as` declaration, such as `impl C as Z where .Z1 = .Self`.
The self type is known there, so we can more eagerly replace `.Self` as
we do in a `require impls` declaration. Then the replacement for `.Self`
never comes with a `.Self` that needs to also be replaced. Any resulting
`.Self` would always be the top-level one.
Second, when evaluating ImplWitnessAccess, we were replacing .Self in
the LHS of rewrite constraints, but the `.Self` may itself have a type
that contains rewrite constraints. If one of those rewrite constraints
has nested ImplWitnessAccess instructions, we evaluate the new
ImplWitnessAccess, which again finds rewrite constraints to replace
`.Self` in, and we repeat forever. For this one we just stop replacing
.Self in the LHS of rewrite constraints. Since they are always against
.Self, we can always look in the access facet's type for a value.
While fixing ImplWitness access, also correct the lookup to search
through the types of nested ImplWitnessAccess instructions to find a
rewrite value, since it may find it at any level up to the eventual
`.Self`.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
The key changes here are:
- Relocating and renaming it to align with `IdKind` (and relocating
`ToRaw` and `FromRaw` to follow it).
- Adding a `Dispatch` method that provides a generic overload-based API
for expressing per-ID-kind dispatch, and rewriting existing code to use
it.
Note in particular that using overloads instead of switch cases makes it
possible to generically handle all specializations of a templated ID
type, e.g. `SomeIdType<T>` for all `T`. We have no such templated ID
types yet, but I'm introducing one in a follow-up PR that needs this
capability.
A `where` expression nested inside a `T impls X` constraint makes
`.Self` ambiguous on the right-hand side of the `where` if `T` is
anything other than `.Self`. After the `where`, the value of a `.Self`
could be `T` or could be the value of `.Self` before the `impls`
constraint: the so-called top-level value of `.Self`.
Implicit use of `.Self` in designators is always allowed, and they are
bound (and replaced by a reference) to the inner-most possible value of
`.Self`. On the right-hand side of the nested `where` above, they have
the value `T as X`.
`.Self impls ...` is also always allowed, since it acts more as a
keyword here, and it always refers to the inner-most possible value of
`.Self`.
Any other explicit use of `.Self` is diagnosed when ambiguous, in any
kind of constraint. This is done in the handling of `WhereExpr` since it
has enough context to allow `.Self impls` (which is an explicit use)
while disallowing other explicit uses. And because it has non-canonical
instructions to work with, so it is able to diagnose errors with precise
locations.
Since `.Self` is no longer going to be marked with depth modifiers, the
eval of `WhereExpr` does not need an input facet value instruction
representing `.Self` to compare with, as they are now going to all be
equivalent. So revert it back to just looking for the `PeriodSelf` name
id, through a shared helper being introduced as `IsPeriodSelf`. And drop
the period self InstId from the `WhereExpr` instruction. This causes
most of the formatted SemIR changes.
Move helpers for working with and replacing `.Self` to their own file,
out of the `facet_type.h` header/cpp files. These are working with
`.Self` facet values more than facet types, though `.Self` is a name
that only exists inside the scope of a facet type.
See
[here](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rWcueFwIfZox6GKVGxiUG4cBzjrZ6djXiIDGyJDtrE4/edit?tab=t.0)
for the design doc.
This also removes the default value of the `result_type_inst_id`
parameter of `HandleAction`, moves it before the action in the parameter
list, and documents it. This solves two problems:
- The default made it easy to forget, leading to unnecessary
`TypeOfInst` instructions.
- When it was present, putting it after the fairly "bulky" action
argument tended to make the callsite harder to read.
This allows `T impls X` constraints to function, since they must contain
some reference to `.Self` in order to be valid. This should be
sufficient to support the interfaces we need for for loops over C++
range-for-compatible types.
We replace `.Self` in the following places:
- In a require decl, as we have a specific self facet to replace it with
from the declaration, either a user-specified facet or the symbolic
`Self`.
- When identifying a facet type, as we have a specific self that we are
identifying the facet type with. That self gets used for all `.Self`
references.
- Implicit `.Self` references on the RHS of an `impls` constraint when
building a facet type. The `.Self` references there no longer refer to
the top level self facet, so replace them with the facet that we now
know they refer to, which is found on the LHS of the `where` before the
`impls`.
- Rewrite constraints in impl lookup when validating them and comparing
them with constants from witnesses, which come from identifying a facet
type.
- Rewrite constraints in ImplWitnessAccess eval when comparing them with
constants from witnesses, which come from identifying a facet type.
Substitution is done through `SubstPeriodSelf`. It handles replacing
`.Self` and `.Self as type`, for a replacement facet that is either of
type FacetType or TypeType.
Eval currently diagnoses some ambiguous `.Self` references when doing
substitution of `.Self` but this is the incorrect place to do it, so
there are TODOs about moving this to name lookup. To support these
diagnostics there's some additional complexity in `SubstPeriodSelf` that
can go away once the TODOs are addressed, such as asking the caller if
they want to replace each `.Self`, in order for it to report a
diagnostic.
There are a number of follow-up work items here:
- Some TODO tests.
- Remove `SymbolicBindingType` since its intention was to support
`.Self` but we don't need it with this approach.
- Replace `.Self` in rewrite constraints of require decls.
- Replace `.Self` in rewrite constraints of impl as when constructing
the witness table.
- Reject explicit `.Self` in name lookup when it would be ambiguous.
- Officially disallow `.Self.A = B` in rewrite constraints in the design
docs, so that we don't have the case where `.A` is allowed but `.Self.A`
is not due to ambiguity.
We were not copying named constraints in the base facet type over to the
result of the WhereExpr eval.
Add tests that cover this by doing `impl as Constraint where ...` with
rewrite contraints either in the impl-as or in the named constraint.
When the interface is generic, these tests fail (as TODOs). When the
impl is used in impl lookup, we crash (with TODOs in the tests).
Part of #6991.
- Rename `ActionIsDependent` to `ActionIsPerformable` (with negated
meaning), because that name is more concrete and, um, actionable.
- Replace `OperandIsDependent` with `OperandDependence`, which returns a
`ConstantDependence` instead of a bool. We need this additional
generality for handling form actions, where we sometimes need to ask
whether something has _any_ dependence, not just whether it has template
dependence.
This makes them part of the identified facet type, and we can see the
constraints as part of stringify and format output.
But this does not do enough to make them useful yet: Any `T impls X`
constraint must contain a reference to `.Self` somewhere. And `.Self`
references do not get substituted, so neither `T(.Self) impls X` and `T
impls X(.Self)` will match against an incoming facet value derived from
an `impl T(U) as X` or `impl T as X(U)`, since `U` and `.Self` are never
the same thing until `.Self` can be substituted.
Now that impl lookup runs into facet values containing `.Self` (a
symbolic binding), such as in `C(.Self)`, we were crashing assuming the
type of `.Self` is a FacetType, but it can be `type` in the case of
`type where C(.Self) impls...`. Instead, use an empty facet type for the
type of `.Self` so it is always a facet. This assists with substituting
other facets into it, without having to insert an extra FacetAccessType.
`MakePeriodSelfFacetValue()` now enforces this requirement.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
This splits off the functionality to handle the base facet type,
rewrites, and impls constraints into separate functions.
We use the Context instead of EvalContext throughout, as the goal is to
move this code to EvalConstantInst in time. That means we do not apply
specifics to the functions in the requirements inst block. That is fine
because WhereExpr never evaluates to an WhereExpr, so this instruction
never survives as a constant value long enough to be re-evaluated with a
specific applied to it.
We don't yet actually add any in check, but this adds the storage for
them, and capabilities to import them, evaluate them, substitute into
them with specifics, name them, format them, and stringify them.
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Co-authored-by: Chandler Carruth <chandlerc@gmail.com>
This makes it possible to do const eval when calling a constexpr C++
function with params and return types other than 32/64-bit integers.
Most of the new logic is in `MaybeModifyCppThunkCallForConstEval`, which
is called by `MakeConstantForCall`. This checks if the callee is a C++
thunk (using a new `SpecialFunctionKind::CppThunk` variant), and if so
it:
* Changes the callee from the C++ thunk to the thunk's callee
* Remaps parameters that are passed by pointer to the thunk to the
underlying value
* Drops the return value parameter, if present
This removes some loops in type completion, but is motivated by the
thought that eval probably wants to query it.
Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini
Ignore storage arguments when evaluating a call, like we do for other
kinds of instruction. Create a placeholder constant to represent each
out parameter so that it can be used in the function body to form more
storage arguments.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
When a `var` is not explicitly given an initializer, initialize it in
one of two ways:
* If its type implements the new interface `Core.Default`, call
`Core.Default.Op` to initialize it.
* Otherwise, if its type implements `UnformedInit`, leave it in an
unformed state. For now, this is always an uninitialized state, but that
will change in the future.
* If neither of those apply, the `var` declaration is ill-formed.
This is a step towards implementing leads decision #6739 and proposals
#257 and #5913.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3.1 Pro via Antigravity
---------
Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
Using a named constraint inside itself is problematic:
- If there were not require decls written above, it identifies as an
empty set. This makes `Z(Self)` essentially disappear in the identified
facet type, which produces "no use of Self" diagnostics while the user
can see a use of Self in the code.
- It won't include require decls that are written after, and so `require
T impls Z` won't actually enforce that `T` impls all of `Z`.
Previously this was an error because using the named constraint would
require it to be identified, and it's not identified until it is
complete. But this will change in proposal #6902. So that proposal also
includes changes to preserve diagnostics for incorrect use of a named
constraint before it's complete, which is implemented here.
Discussed in open discussion [on
2026-03-12](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mjllGO3ZCL4qGt9uJHUtcxKoHAGEY7Y999ie4EtBWB8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.1dvbbrp5a6t3).
The new tests exposed a bug where we're not copying named constraints in
a facet type on the RHS of `where .Self impls` into the facet type on
the left, which is now fixed. The
`fail_require_impls_incomplete_self_in_period_self_impls.carbon` test
would not diagnose its error without this fix.
Introduces `Context` and `SoftContext` messages, which can be introduced
through a `ContextBuilder`:
- The `Context` messages come before the diagnostic in the output.
- The first `Context` message steals the diagnostic level from the main
diagnostic, and turns the main diagnostic into a Note attached to the
context.
- A `SoftContext` message works similarly, but if it's preceeded by a
`Context` or `SoftContext` message, then it is dropped. This can be used
as a default/backup scope when nothing more interesting is provided up
the stack, such as in `TryEvalBlockForSpecific`.
The `ContextBuilder` is provided to a callback through
`Diagnostics::ContextScope`, an RAII type `AnnotationScope` but for
context messages.
This allows a high level operation to provide a context message like
"failed to identify facet type {0}" which will then be used as the error
if a diagnostic is produced during identification, with the latter
diagnostic attached as a note to explain why the contextual operation
failed.
In particular, this allows monomorphization errors (such as an array
bound being negative) to be attached to a higher lever operation instead
of being top-level diagnostics themselves, with the monomorphization
site being a note. This inverts the source code locations that appear in
the diagnostic, so that the top-level diagnostic points to the "user
code" which causes the monomorphization.
This is presented as an alternative strategy to #6753, which plumbed
diagnoser callbacks around to achieve the same goals.
We replace the diagnoser callbacks in type completion and operators with
ContextScope callbacks instead, which now provide better diagnostics for
monomorphization errors. Other callers to MakeSpecific do not yet have
ContextScopes introduced in order to turn monomorphization errors into
more interesting diagnostics.
Add support for `BranchWithArg` and `BlockArg` during compile-time
function execution. We only track the most recent block arg value for
now, because that's all we need -- we never look at a block argument for
any block other than the current one.
Also refactor `FunctionExecContext` to better encapsulate the blocks
list.
Add support for compile-time functions. `eval fn` is analogous to C++
`constexpr`, and is evaluated at compile time when it has compile-time
arguments. `musteval fn` is analogous to C++ `consteval`, and requires
that its arguments be available at compile time and is always evaluated
at compile time. For now we require the modifier to match across
redeclarations of the function. The specific modifier syntax here is a
placeholder and not yet part of an approved design.
Limitations: Only very basic support for evaluation is provided. So far
there's no support for mutable state or `if` expressions, but otherwise
control flow and passing and returning values should work. Carbon
evaluation recursion is modeled by C++ recursion for now, so you can
overflow the toolchain stack easily. Functions that use in-place
initialization will generally not work yet, as they are modeled as
passing a non-compile-time-constant reference to a temporary to the
call.
Add missing categorization of `name_binding_decl` as `NotExpr` to match
other similar declaration instructions like `FunctionDecl`, so that we
can uniformly skip over them when they occur within function bodies.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro and Flash via Antigravity
Mainly because "sorting_diagnostic_consumer" is legacy, since
`SortingDiagnosticConsumer` became `SortingConsumer`. Also better
reflecting contents of these files.
Where I'm not renaming, I'm less positive about dropping "diagnostics"
from "file_diagnostics" and "null_diagnostics" (which contain both a
consumer and emitter, and "null.h" seems like poor naming), so not doing
that here. Also "diagnostic.h" contains `struct Diagnostic`, so is a
decent fit.
Assisted-by: Google Antigravity with Gemini 3 Flash
Add a new builtin function `cpp.std.initializer_list.make` that takes an
array and returns a `std::initializer_list`, initialized to refer to
that array. When C++ initialization wants to perform a
`std::initializer_list`-from-array construction, synthesize a
declaration of a matching builtin function and use that to perform the
initialization.
Ideally we would specify this conversion as an impl of `ImplicitAs` in
the prelude instead of hardcoding it in the interop layer, but
unfortunately that's not currently possible, for various reasons -- we
can't make the conversion form-generic, we can't deduce the array length
from the initializer, and we can't deduce against the arguments of
imported C++ class templates yet -- so for now synthesizing a builtin
function on demand is the best we can do.
Assisted-by: Gemini 3 Pro via Antigravity
This pull request adds support for integer-to-char conversion, allowing
the compiler to correctly handle character casting, implementing part of
the issue #5922.
```carbon
import Core library "io";
fn Run() -> i32 {
var i : i32 = 65;
var ch: char = (i as char); // Support implemented!
Core.PrintChar(ch); // Print 'A'
return 0;
}
```
---------
Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
Support an implicit conversion from `T*` to `Cpp.void*` and to `const
Cpp.void*`, and an `unsafe as` conversion in the opposite direction.
In order to support C++ calls taking and returning `void*` (which get
mapped to Carbon `Optional(Cpp.void*)`, also support conversions from
`Optional(T)` to `Optional(U)` if there's a conversion from `T` to `U`.
Fix a bug in `OptionalStorage` for `T*` where its `HasValue` was exactly
backwards.
Pursuant to recent decisions on #6124, switch `Destroy` to use a
`CustomWitness` for its implementation. Right now this is manufacturing
no-op implementation functions on each lookup, which obviously isn't
ideal but is intended as a first pass. I'm mostly trying to find the
right balance between updating the approach to reflect new decisions,
while still breaking apart work in a way.
The `CoreInterface` logic is intended to build on `CoreIdentifier`
support. We have a number of additional interfaces that require
specialized logic, and that'll extend pretty far with C++ interop, so it
seemed easiest to have a generic function for it. That's what's
replacing the logic inside C++ interop that was doing string comparisons
(which could have already been moved to `CoreIdentifier`, I just missed
it in my first pass).
This adds `CustomWitness` support because the `Destroy` witnesses can be
imported cross-file. `CustomWitness` was previously only used for C++
types, which don't yet support import, which is why that wasn't
previously an issue. The addition of `query_specific_interface_id` is
similarly needed in order to get correct sorting of witness blocks when
imported.
This PR also removes builtin constraint logic (note this is in a
separate commit to help review; it's not a separate PR because it's
difficult to split apart without tests breaking). This had been made
generic with the expectation that destroy, copy, move, and conversions
would all need related support. Under the new decision, we are not going
to do blanket impls and will instead just manufacture a `CustomWitness`
for everything.
A lot of SemIR fingerprints change, but that's probably because the
addition of `Destroy` on core classes is yielding structural changes.
Don't CHECK-fail when trying to format invalid SemIR with an ImplWitness
whose table_id isn't an ImplWitnessTable. We use SemIR formatting as a
debugging aid, so it's good for it to be robust even in the presence of
invalid SemIR.
Don't crash if a typed instruction has no type_id field and has a
constant kind of Always. We don't have any instructions like that at the
moment.
These caused problems while working on #6451, and while I ended up not
needing either fix for that PR, they both seem like they may be worth
keeping to save some trouble for the next person who hits these.
---------
Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
Identifying a facet type is an operation on a pair of (self type, facet
type). It substitutes that self in as the `Self` of any require
declarations in order to form the set of (self type, SpecificInterface)
pairs that constitute the requirements of the IdentifiedFacetType.
Currently we don't pass around any self type, and assume all require
declarations are written against `Self` but this will change in the
future.
By contrast, type completion is done in the abstract and does not form
specifics for the require declarations. The purpose of type completion
is to enumerate the scopes where name lookup can occur and ensure they
are completed.
With this change, type completion is:
- No longer built on top of identification for facet types.
- Recursively ensures all `extend` scopes are complete since name lookup
can find symbols in them.
We add some test cases that demonstrate consistency between a resolving
the specific of a generic class, and a generic interface/constraint,
both used in a type position. In all cases, an invalid specific is not
materialized for the type completion when the specific's arguments are
used in a non-extend context. But they specific is materialized and
checked for type completion when in an extend context (extend impl or
extend require).
Type completion itself does not need to recurse into named constraints
or interfaces as the `extend require` declarations require the type to
be complete immediately, just as for `extend impl` in a class.
We had a test (`fail_incomplete_where.carbon`) with `impl as J where
.Self impls K` and `J` is incomplete, which used to be diagnosed but no
longer is, because we don't require non-extend interfaces to be complete
in type completion, nor in identification. The test was trying to test
the presence of rewrite constraints though, which it didn't even use. So
we remove the diagnostic that we can't hit anymore and replaced it with
a TODO, and add a test that should reach that TODO once qualified
rewrite constraints work.
The to_array was mainly needed for zip_equal, and the
GetBlockAsTypeInstIds is forming a vector that should also be size two.
But just writing this out should avoid memory allocations.
Of course, then I'm like "but maybe a lambda or function would be
clearer than a for loop"... So the second commit.
There are two uses I'm not converting here, that seem to want the
"shortest" behavior. For everything else, I'm going to `zip_equal` since
it's more restrictive.
I wish `zip` were named `zip_shortest`.
This requires declared FacetTypes to hold NamedConstraintIds (along with
a specific) that are named in an extend or impls requirement. We add
support to stringify and formatter to display the named constraints in
the facet type, and special case when a facet type contains a single
extend named constraint, like we did for a single extend interface.
This means that `RequireIndentifiedFacetType` can now fail, if the facet
type contains a forward-declared named constraint. Add the appropriate
diagnostics for each call to this function, and note the ones that
should change to `RequireCompleteFacetType` in the future with TODOs.
We also add tests for using facet types that can or can't be identified,
or completed, with named constraints in them.
#6289 absentmindedly added fields in more places, and this is undoing
that plus further fixes.
This does some cleanup of types with relation to singletons. For
`TypeType` and `ErrorInst`, they're always complete due to a
`SetComplete` call in `file.cpp`. For `CppVoidType`, it's intended to be
incomplete by construction, and so a `TypeId` should be okay. The intent
though on not generally providing these had been that `GetSingletonType`
needs to be called to get a type to be marked as complete.
In the case of `AutoType`, removing `TypeId`does change a small printing
detail. I think that's old legacy that's just been carried forward.
Otherwise, for both `InstType` and `AutoType`, I've added
`GetSingletonType` calls where they were used in order to ensure
completeness is applied correctly. These calls cause small SemIR
permutations.
This causes `AutoType` to be seen by lowering, so I'm adding a
placeholder for it. Also merging two functions that look like they're
identical in intent -- not sure why they're separate.
---------
Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
SymbolicBindingType evaluates to the type component of a symbolic facet
value (a type/witnesses pair), and that symbolic facet value has its
constant value replaced by a specific. That specific can provide a
FacetValue, in which case it just evaluates to that FacetValue's type
component. It can provide a BindSymbolicName of another binding, in
which case it points to that entity instead and awaits a further
specific. Currently the code only handles these two cases, and they
match the behaviour of the evaluation of FacetAccessType itself.
However FacetAccessType evaluation also handles cases beyond these, as
there are other instructions that occur as facet values, such as
ImplWitnessAccess, when accessing an associated constant of an interface
that has a facet type as its type.
Currently eval then crashes in this scenario. Instead of furthering to
reproduce the contents of FacetAccessType's evaluation, defer to calling
the `EvalConstantInst()` overload for it when evaluating
SymbolicBindingType against a new value from a specific. This means
SymbolicBindingType can evaluate back into a FacetAccessType, when it
was originally a FacetAccessType(BindSymbolicName) and becomes
FacetAccessType(ImplWitnessAccess) through a specific.
This comes with a test that crashed in eval before this change.
In preparation for modeling `Optional(T*)` as a null pointer value.
With this PR, pointers remain non-nullable, but `MaybeUnformed(T*)` has
a particular unformed state that has the same representation as a C++
null pointer, which is accessible and detectable via builtins.
The SymbolicBindingType refers to the type value that will be
substituted in for the BindSymbolicName, but holds onto the EntityNameId
from the BindSymbolicName instead of (or in addition to, for now) the
instruction.
The EntityNameId will be used to look in the ScopeStack to find the
witnesses either from the BindSymbolicName instruction, or other
instructions that specify `impls` constraints against the EntityName.
This will allow us to have the `T` in `I(T)` resolve to a `.Self`
reference in the type so that we get type equality with the binding's
type: `T:! I(.Self)`.
Previously it performed two kinds of operations, with a boolean
parameter to control whether it would unwrap FacetValue or not. This
made the function hard to explain as "canonicalization".
Now the contract of GetCanonicalFacetOrTypeValue is as follows:
1. For a facet value expression, it returns the canonical value of the
facet value.
2. For a `<facet value> as type` it returns the canonical value of the
`<facet value>`.
3. For other type expressions, it returns the canonical value of the
type.
1 and 2 together collapse together two representations of a facet value
(as a FacetType or as a TypeType) into a single canonical value, which
is important for constant comparison of facet values where the `as type`
is not meant to change the result. This is the case in impl lookups and
`.Self` comparisons.
The step of unwrapping `FacetValue` is only useful in the constant
evaluation of `LookupImplWitness` and is used to collapse *symbolic*
queries on `FacetValue(T)` and on `T` down to a single canonical value,
since they produce the same result later when `T` is replaced with a
facet value or type that can provide a concrete witness. This is now
extensively documented in the constant evaluation of
`LookupImplWitness`.
This change came out of a request/discussion in #6115 (see comment
https://github.com/carbon-language/carbon-lang/pull/6115#discussion_r2383696576).
This also does a little restructuring in the same direction, following
#6124.
Leads want `Destroy` to work similarly now for all types. As a
consequence, there doesn't seem to be as much benefit to splitting off
aggregate destruction. In this PR, the `type.destroy` function can now
be expected to destroy anything that's destructible; that means it'll be
usable for the `final fn` once that support is available.
Similarly, this gets rid of the impls other than the single blanket
impl, now using `type.can_destroy`. Since they all need to use the same
function, there's no benefit to splitting approaches. Also, now it can
just be a `final impl` since there should be no need for people to
create specializations -- if this blanket impl applies, it means the
`final fn` is the same.
This also slips in `partial` support since there's no reason to have it
diverge anymore. Also `abstract`, which I'm not sure is broadly testable
since most cases it'd come up, the `abstract` keyword is explicitly
detected/rejected.
Note though that this doesn't make any really big changes. It's just
realigning on the leads decision. I'm going this way to try to reduce
name-related churn for other changes.
This is in support of a goal of changing the blanket `destroy` impl to
use (roughly):
```
private fn CanAggregateDestroy() -> type = "type.can_aggregate_destroy";
// Handles aggregate type destruction.
impl forall [AggregateDestroyT:! CanAggregateDestroy()] AggregateDestroyT as Destroy {
fn Op[addr self: Self*]() = "type.aggregate_destroy";
}
```
That isn't done here because there's still other issues that migrating
raises. What this *does* do is add the builtin functions, and in
particular, support to `FacetTypeInfo` to make `CanAggregateDestroy`
work.
The "special requirement" approach in `FacetTypeInfo` allows us to
support restricting a blanket impl under the current approach of impls.
Maybe we'll find a cleaner approach that can work in the future, but
this fits into the current model by propagating similar to other
requirements. I'm using an enum mask because we have a number of similar
things to add (e.g. copy, move) but I'm not sure we need a full vector.
A few alternatives considered were:
- Supporting syntax more like `where .Self impls
TypeCanAggregateDestroy(.Self, SupportedInterface,
UnsupportedInterface)`. I think it'd be a little cleaner, but requires
better compile-time evaluation in order to assess the type of the call.
Right now it's expected to be a `FacetType` too early to make this work,
and I was concerned about pouring too much more time down this route.
- Providing an actual interface, in particular doing name lookup back
into `Core.` for an interface. This would've added name lookup overhead,
and the question of whether an `impl` exists.
- Generating an interface. This avoids the name lookup, but would still
raise the question of whether an `impl` should also be generated. Work
I've previously done generating interfaces for class destruction also
feels complex to both write and understand (an unfortunate issue).
- Still modeling as an `ImplsConstraint`, for example by defining a
special `InterfaceId::CanAggregateDestroy = -2` similar to what we do on
other ids. I was hesitant because of how this expands the number of
modes of `InterfaceId`, and things for consuming code to watch out for,
for what feels like a relatively niche set of use-cases that are only
interface-like.
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Co-authored-by: Dana Jansens <danakj@orodu.net>
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