This started with cleaning up the remaining Name/expression type punning
in the node stack, and grew. I'm factoring out a class because we've
previously expressed the desire to factor logic out of SemanticsContext
where possible, and this seemed like a reasonable cut.
NameExpression as the first node as a QualifiedExpression allows the
qualifier handling to consider Name in one less spot, an incremental
simplification. However, the additional complexity caused by this makes
me split ApplyNameQualifier/ApplyExpressionQualifier in order to avoid
repeat checks of the parse node's kind. The logic is still largely
shared, thus a couple helper functions. I think this is all fairly well
structured in the isolated class.
I can see that we may want to avoid passing SemanticsContext as an
argument in the future if it elides a step of lookup.
This handles namespacing of functions. Parsing and semantics are changed
significantly, while lowering works without changes. Variables can't be
namespaced yet because they're dealing with patterns, and I didn't dig
through that code.
Most of the logic is done through the new name declaration stack, which
is necessary because semantics isn't quite sure where the declaration
name ends. It'd be complex for parsing to send a signal about this,
probably involving node variants and rewrites of the tree, and this
solution seems to work well. Unfortunately this means a new stack, but
that may be inevitable due to the extra information needing to be
tracked.
Note this doesn't deal with scoped lookups of non-namespace things,
which we'll need for generics. That'll probably involve pushing resolved
scopes onto a stack (or maybe just setting a singleton value?) to affect
contextual name lookup. But, I think the basics are there to make it
work when we can test the behavior.
This renames "designator expression" to "qualified expression" and adds
"qualified declaration" in order to use terminology more consistent with
C++.
Namespaces will probably need to be considered for name mangling down
the line, but this still uses the basic name.
Jon Ross-Perkins