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Richard Smith 3bbc03f527 Add better algorithm for repairing mismatched brackets (#7574)
Adds an algorithm to compute where to insert brackets to repair
bracketing mismatches during lexing. This takes indentation, as well as
a number of other cues, into account to predict where the brackets
should have gone. Detects when there is ambiguity between solutions and
makes no suggestion in that case. Reduces the problem by splitting on
properly bracketed top-level constructs, then uses a beam search to find
good candidate solutions quickly.

This includes both a fuzzer and an eval tool that can be used to
determine how well the algorithm fares against a given corpus of valid
Carbon code, by damaging it in various ways and seeing whether the
algorithm can correctly fix it. On all the eval modes, this algorithm
can correctly infer the positions for over 80% of lost brackets (and can
correctly restore 95+% of brackets in some modes), with low rates of
incorrect suggestions.

See added documentation for full details.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity, Claude via Claude Code
2026-08-19 18:55:32 +00:00
Geoff Romer 6429c1655c Make the tree structure more explicit in parse dumps (#7591)
It's hard to track 2-space indent levels across large vertical gaps, and
it can be hard to suppress the instinct to read the dump as if it were
preorder. This change introduces a new dump mode that addresses both
problems by using box-drawing characters to explicitly represent the
parent-child edges of the tree. This new mode is the default, but the
old behavior remains available with
`--parse-dump-format=yaml-postorder`.
2026-07-31 16:44:18 +00:00
Dana Jansens d2ac9b3933 Diagnose where in a binding that introduces a .Self that does not refer to the binding (#7517)
This is in addition to finding a `where` on the RHS of another `where`.
Since a generic binding introduces `.Self`, any `where` expression that
isn't part of a facet type modifying the binding itself would introduce
an ambiguous `.Self`.

Add virtual parse nodes for let, var, and form bindings, which goes
before the type. This allows us to track if `where` appears in the
binding's type. We only need to look for an invalid `where` if any
appeared in the type. We combine these three nodes together into a
single node kind, which requires us to remove the name from it as a
child. We move it up to the Pattern node again, and rename the
PatternStart nodes to PatternTypeStart as they are now located in the
middle of the Pattern nodes, just before the type.

And we only need to thaw `.Self` in generic bindings. Non-generic
bindings can only have `.Self` through a `where` expression, since the
name is not provided otherwise to non-generic bindings. And `where`
expressions thaw their `.Self` independently. So the binding only needs
to thaw a `.Self` that it introduced, which is only for generic
bindings.
2026-07-22 16:45:00 +00:00
Chandler Carruth 8be274cf60 Replace :! binding syntax with phase keywords and contextual defaults (#7479)
Implement the toolchain side of proposal #7254, removing the `:!`
binding
syntax for generic and template parameters in favor of the keywords
`generic`,
`template`, and `runtime` plus contextual defaults for phase.

For valid programs this is semantics-preserving: each binding resolves
to the
same phase, and produces the same SemIR, as it did under `:!`/`:`. The
parser
derives a binding's phase from its syntactic context plus any explicit
phase
keyword; new diagnostics and error recovery for misused keywords are
described
below.

Implementation details for each component:

- Lexer: remove the `:!` (`ColonExclaim`) token, move its virtual
parse-node
  budget onto `:`, and add the `generic` and `runtime` keywords.
- Parser: thread a `BindingContext` (`ExplicitParam`, `DeducedParam`, or
`CompileTimeEntityParam`) from declaration introducers down through
parameter
lists to each binding pattern, using a one-token lookahead to
distinguish a
name-qualifier parameter list from a declaration's own final list.
Parameters
of a compile-time entity (`class`, `interface`, `constraint`, `choice`,
`alias`, `export`, `namespace`) and deduced `[]` parameters default to
checked
generic; explicit function parameters and local bindings default to
runtime.
`HandleBindingPattern` resolves the phase from that context plus the
keyword: a
`generic` keyword needs no node of its own (the phase is carried by the
  binding's node kind), while a `runtime` keyword is preserved as a
`RuntimeBindingName` node so `check` can name it in a diagnostic. A
phase
keyword that is merely redundant with the contextual default is
diagnosed
  here, without invalidating the parse tree.
- Check: a phase keyword that is invalid for its context (for example
`runtime`
on a checked-generic parameter) is diagnosed here, and recovers by
building an
error binding that still introduces the name so that later uses of it do
not
  produce cascading errors.

The removed `:!` syntax is now rejected as an ordinary parse error.

The `form`/`:?`/`->?` ("extended types") portion of proposal #7254 is
left for a
separate change.

Assisted-by: Claude Code
2026-07-11 01:22:44 +00:00
Richard Smith 181a592b8c Support for parsing expression patterns (#6977)
When parsing a pattern, if we encounter something that isn't pattern
syntax, try parsing as an expression instead. We only need one-token
lookahead to distinguish pattern syntax from expression syntax.

Track a precedence group through pattern parsing so that we can allow
different kinds of expressions in a top-level pattern (such as the
operand of `let`) and in a nested pattern (such as a subpattern of a
tuple pattern or within grouping parens). For example, we do not allow
`case if ...`, and for now I've chosen to also not allow logical or
relational operators at the top level of a pattern, so `case 1 + 1` is
OK, but `case 1 == 1` and `case true and false` require parentheses.
This decision should be ratified or revisited by a design proposal.

Very basic check support is also provided, only sufficient to form an
`ExprPattern` instruction and nothing beyond that. For now, all pattern
matching against an `ExprPattern` fails with a TODO error. To support
that, I've switched from calling `BeginSubpattern` in the parent handler
of a pattern and `EndSubpatternAs*` in the pattern handler itself to
calling both functions in parent handlers, with `EndSubpattern`
converting an expression into an expression pattern where needed.

Depends on #6976.

Assisted-by: Gemini via Google Antigravity
2026-03-28 00:06:06 +00:00
Geoff RomerandDavid Blaikie 2e155567bd Disallow :? within var (#6812)
Co-authored-by: David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com>
2026-03-06 21:08:22 +00:00
bf9219d30e Check support for form literals and :? bindings (#6747)
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
Co-authored-by: Carbon Infra Bot <carbon-external-infra@google.com>
2026-02-26 23:01:24 +00:00
Geoff Romer 4a0cf6c1fb Track the start of a signature more accurately (#6760)
This change ensures that a function signature always starts with an
`IdentifierNameMaybeBeforeSignature` node (renamed from
`IdentifierNameBeforeParams`), even in the case of function declarations
like `fn F -> T` that have no parameter list. As a consequence, this
ensures that we push new entries onto `pattern_block_stack` and
`full_pattern_stack` when we start processing the function signature.
2026-02-23 22:46:03 +00:00
Richard Smith 1b2ae912fc Add basic support for eval fn and musteval fn. (#6694)
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
2026-02-11 02:08:16 +00:00
Geoff Romer 7938d9a8d0 Lex/parse support for ->?, :?, and form literals (#6695)
See #5389 (pending) for the language design.
2026-02-07 02:41:22 +00:00
Burak Emir 80639a02f0 [parse] Implement initial parsing support for Lambda expressions (#6583)
This adds the necessary parser infrastructure to recognize and parse
lambda expressions in Carbon.

Key changes:
- Added  and  Parse Node Kinds.
- Updated  to use  to accommodate the growing number of node kinds.
- Implemented parser states and handlers for lambda syntax ( or ).
- Added  structure to .
- Added diagnostics for missing lambda bodies.
- Added a stub in  phase to defer semantic analysis using .
- Added parser tests for lambdas.
2026-01-14 16:58:15 +00:00
Geoff Romerandjosh11b e940cb72b6 Parse ref as operator (#6539)
This is the first step of implementing the guidance in #6342.

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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-12-30 19:18:34 +00:00
Geoff Romer 57a2715f10 Remove support for addr (#6375)
Every test that used `addr` before #6283 should be using `ref` after
this PR. In most cases that was done in #6283, but this PR transitions a
few that I missed in that first pass. In addition, #6283 cloned the old
`addr` tests from `foo.carbon` to `foo_addr.carbon` in order to maintain
test coverage during the transition; this PR removes those cloned tests.
2025-11-18 19:48:58 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith 43ffd721a4 Support ref tags on arguments to ref params (#6312)
The issue of whether/how to include `ref` tags in the textual and
in-memory SemIR (see discussion
[here](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1431316355742961805))
is left as future work.

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2025-11-11 20:30:19 +00:00
Dana Jansens 26381f6eaf Handle parsing of require...impls declarations (#6255)
Check is not implemented yet, but some tests are added.
2025-10-23 18:34:52 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 705c95d6e0 Drop fn destroy support (#6136)
`fn destroy` is being removed per decision on #6124. It seems like the
relevant decision will result in no more keyword-based function names,
so this is removing all related support.
2025-09-25 21:56:48 +00:00
Elliott KaltandRichard Smith f4bd6e42f9 Replace impl fn with override fn (#6008)
This proposal renames the syntax used to mark an overriding definition
of a virtual method from `impl fn` to `override fn` to avoid ambiguity:
besides indicating an overriding virtual function, it can be parsed as
an "impl" declaration when the construct following "impl" begins with a
lambda introduced by "fn".

Closes #5711

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2025-09-12 23:27:02 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 21687e8cb1 Fix use of keyword names in qualifiers with params (#5130)
This is a crash bug, since NameQualifierWithParams needs a specific open
kind. I'd missed that this wasn't actually tested.
2025-03-14 20:16:01 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkinsandjosh11b c44e688e5d Add parsing for 'fn destroy' (#5045)
Syntax is proposed in #5017, but has already been discussed with leads.
Semantics is left as a TODO.

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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
2025-03-03 17:37:10 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins ec58a48994 Consolidate parse function tests (#5039)
These tests pretty much predate split tests. There are lots of files as
a result, and I think consolidation will help (hopefully others agree).
2025-02-28 19:34:48 +00:00
Geoff RomerandJon Ross-Perkins 74e1a9949f Support tuple patterns outside parameter lists (#4923)
Parameter lists need substantially different treatment than tuple
patterns in other contexts, so this change splits them into separate
parse node kinds.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2025-02-20 03:17:45 +00:00
Geoff Romer 943acf1ec2 Separate node kind for bindings inside var (#4822)
This is a step toward making binding pattern handling more robust, by
removing its reliance on the node stack for context.
2025-01-21 20:15:19 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith 13434f0e8a Model var as a pattern operator (#4720)
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2025-01-17 17:51:34 +00:00
David BlaikieandJon Ross-Perkins e6c1f0630a Add a newline after diagnostic output when testing (#4818)
This removes some churn when adding new diagnostic cases to test files
(where previous to this change the newly added newline would cause the
previous diagnostic CHECKs to be updated including changes to the line
number because the CHECK for the blank line meant an extra line between
CHECK and source line).

A few alternatives discussed here:
https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1329573358475673723

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2025-01-16 23:23:57 +00:00
Geoff RomerandJon Ross-Perkins 4f10735751 Track params in the parser (#4777)
This change splits `NodeKind::IdentifierName` into separate node kinds
depending on whether the identifier is followed by parameters, and
similarly splits `NameQualifier` based on whether the qualifier has
parameters. This enables us to only push a pattern block when it's
actually needed, rather than "defensively" pushing one when it might be
needed.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2025-01-10 22:11:07 +00:00
Richard Smith d42128ef9a Parse all kinds of declarations at function scope. (#4779)
These don't fully work in check and beyond yet, because they're not
added into lexical lookup, but already mostly do the right thing.

Per #3407, disallow namespace declarations anywhere other than at file
scope for now.

We don't treat statements starting with a packaging introducer keyword
(`package`, `library`, `import`) as declarations because they're
sufficiently unlikely to occur that the error recovery doesn't seem
important, and this avoids needing to disambiguate `package.` at the
start of an expression.
2025-01-10 07:03:10 +00:00
Richard Smith 2e63da1a40 Move diagnostic kind name to the end of the diagnostic. (#4437)
Also surround it in square brackets rather than parentheses. This
matches the format used by Clang and GCC, and means diagnostics will
still match the `file:line:col: error: ` pattern used by some IDE tools.

Before:
```console
fail_builtins.carbon:11:11: error(AliasRequiresNameRef): alias initializer must be a name reference
```

After:
```console
fail_builtins.carbon:11:11: error: alias initializer must be a name reference [AliasRequiresNameRef]
```

Also tighten up test regex to only match on `STDERR` lines that list a
file name.
2024-10-23 16:56:23 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 62c36eceda Support printing the diagnostic kind for verification. (#4425)
This is to help identify which diagnostics we're actually using.

Note that driver/testdata still has tests which don't pass this flag,
and so continue to test the kind-less (default) behavior.
2024-10-18 22:33:56 +00:00
Jon Ross-PerkinsandRichard Smith e7aebbe581 Update basic diagnostic capitalization/punctuation (#4328)
This is a primarily automated change:

- Search & replace for capitalization
-
`(CARBON_DIAGNOSTIC\((?:\n\s+)?\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s")([A-Z])`
    - `$1\L$2`
- Search & replace for period
-
`(CARBON_DIAGNOSTIC\((?:\n\s+)?\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s\w+,(?:\n\s+)?\s"(?:[^)]|\n)+)\.("[,)])`
    - `$1$2`
- Limited search & replace for `ERROR: ` -> `error: ` in streamed things
- Leaving a TODO for command_line because there's more cleanup that can
be done there
- Modify diagnostic_consumer.cpp
    - ERROR -> error
    - WARNING -> warning

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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2024-09-19 21:32:53 +00:00
josh11bandJosh L 7611aac355 Clarify what was missing in binding pattern errors (#4314)
Co-authored-by: Josh L <josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-09-14 03:31:43 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins ae675e61bd Add initial parsing for 'extern library' (#4173) 2024-07-26 20:47:25 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 83413479d7 Move some of the test information to TIP lines (#4007)
This has is a nice-to-have for me. Frequently I want to run a specific
test, and end up digging through output to be able to copy-paste the run
line. This uses TIP lines to inject the command into the file when using
AUTOUPDATE.

Note, one of the reasons I want this is because "bazel test
//toolchain/testing:file_test --test_output=all" has been regularly
exceeding bazel's output limit for me (workaround is either opening the
output file or specifying an obscure output limit flag), making it a
little harder for me to get the commands. However, frequently I'm adding
a file and want to iterate on it, so that's really the use case I have
in mind here.
2024-06-04 17:57:23 +00:00
Richard SmithandJon Ross-Perkins 28170c7867 Parse parameters in name qualifiers. (#3988)
Parse the name of a declaration as a sequence of `NameQualifier`s --
which have a name, possibly parameters, and a trailing period --
followed by a name and possibly parameters. This prepares us for parsing
declarations of members of generic classes and similar cases, but
actually supporting such member redeclarations is left to a future
change.

We previously required functions to have parameters, but no longer do,
following the direction of #3848. Cases like namespaces that can't
actually have parameters are now diagnosed in check instead of in parse.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2024-05-29 00:47:29 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins b8ceb8dd8b Print a blank line after a diagnostic. (#3806)
The purpose of the newline is to make it clearer where a given
diagnostic begins and ends, particularly as the first message of a
diagnostic may not be the error.

This is a trivial code change, but ripples edits through test files.
2024-03-22 18:10:49 +00:00
Richard Smith f0e940ddfd Initial support for builtin functions. (#3803)
For now, a builtin function is defined by specifying a string literal
initializer in a function declaration:

```carbon
fn MyBuiltin(a: i32) -> i32 = "builtin.name";
```

End-to-end support is included for a sample `"int.add"` builtin
performing integer addition, covering constant evaluation and code
generation.

The implementation here needs substantial refactoring before we'll be
ready to start adding more builtins. That refactoring work will be
coming next. This change is aiming to checkpoint some incremental
progress.
2024-03-21 20:46:34 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 096daecc57 Add framework for the extern keyword. (#3755)
This doesn't add full support. I'm separating it out to make the effects
of the modifier changes clearer for review. I'm restructuring a little
with the expectation that we'll have some more categories of modifier
keywords in the future (similar to `extern`, these may not be in a "set"
such as access), and thus easily scaling up to a few more would be
useful.
2024-03-08 16:01:12 +00:00
josh11b f5c34d62dd Abbreviate "address" -> "addr" (#3580)
As [requested in
Discord](https://discord.com/channels/655572317891461132/655578254970716160/1184904724483416064)
and is now documented in [the toolchain architecture
doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RRYMm42osyqhI2LyjrjockYCutQ5dOf8Abu50kTrkX0/edit?resourcekey=0-kHyqOESbOHmzZphUbtLrTw&tab=t.0#heading=h.pph7i5m5un7q).
2024-01-09 22:37:48 +00:00
Richard Smith 0a06fceb5f Improve diagnosis of mismatched brackets. (#3282)
Move handling of mismatched brackets out of the main lexing loop into a
separate pass that is only run if there are mismatched brackets This is
done in preparation for using both lookahead and lookbehind to work out
how to match brackets, and to get this code far away from the hot lexing
loop.

Fix bracket insertion location to be immediately after the token that
we're inserting the bracket after, rather than potentially at the end of
a comment. When there are open brackets at the end of the file, say that
there are open brackets, not that there's a closing bracket without a
matching opening bracket.
2023-12-21 08:49:37 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 7c7afc9e32 Split out infix and prefix operators to separate node kinds. (#3481)
This leaves a single state for each in the expr loop. I was trying to
think through ways to have per-token states, but they felt sort of
bulky.

Note this is more verbose: but I think the long-term is going to be that
when we start wanting to add handlers, we're going to need to switch to
different names based on the token found. As a consequence, the parse
state logic will end up diverging a little, and we'll just want to align
towards boilerplate handlers.

Short-term, this opens up a path for saying that each parse node
corresponds to precisely one token in success states, and separates out
what were becoming big handler functions in check.
2023-12-13 19:52:20 +00:00
josh11bandJon Ross-Perkins 6067ca3f49 Change return of SkipPastLikelyEnd to be last consumed token (#3493)
This approach means the parse subtree includes the full token range
consumed.

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Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2023-12-11 22:11:09 +00:00
josh11bandJon Ross-Perkins 5f439b842b Parsing impl...as (#3473)
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2023-12-09 04:04:00 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith 6e65a30b5d Rename ParamList to TuplePattern (#3479)
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2023-12-08 23:35:47 +00:00
Geoff RomerandRichard Smith 39750b9925 Parse support for tuple patterns in var and let (#3448)
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
2023-12-08 01:16:03 +00:00
Richard Smith fe6f7b4330 Rename Name -> IdentifierName given that we have several other kinds of parse nodes that represent names. (#3453)
Factor out common checking handling for the different kinds of
unqualified names
2023-12-07 01:48:14 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins d73729179a Switch modifiers to use distinct parse nodes. (#3461)
This is supporting a direction that all parse nodes should correspond to
a single token, allowing for reduced tokenized buffer access during
checking (it's still necessary for diagnostics, and some literals).

One of the justifications for a unified parse node was implementation
LOC: note this is slightly smaller, using macros to reduce some
duplication. While this does add more switching in HandleDeclScopeLoop,
that's offset by less explicit switching in the check handlers. Also, I
think the duplication in HandleDeclScopeLoop can be reduced by shifting
the flow there, which I'll do in a separate PR.
2023-12-06 22:14:53 +00:00
josh11bandJon Ross-Perkins fada410559 Support declaration modifier keywords (#3412)
Co-authored-by: Jon Ross-Perkins <jperkins@google.com>
2023-12-05 22:45:57 +00:00
Geoff Romer b8d4e2f41b Binding pattern naming cleanup (#3410)
- Rename `PatternBinding` to `BindingPattern`.
- Use `BindingPattern` rather than `Pattern` in the names of
binding-pattern-specific parse states.
2023-12-01 21:36:51 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins 0db63ff17a Abbreviate Integer and FloatingPoint (#3435)
I was suggesting this because `FloatingPoint` is pretty long. `int` and
`float` should be familiar abbreviations. `unsigned` should be familiar
to developers too, but `UnsignedInt` still feels usefully clearer for
the additional chars.
2023-11-29 23:29:48 +00:00
Jacob Schneider 1d443a3617 Underline the entire token when producing diagnostic messages. (#3413)
This is an incremental improvement on our diagnostic messages that
simply underlines an entire token if the token is larger than 1 char
(else it points to the single char with a caret like it used to).
2023-11-27 16:36:26 +00:00
Jon Ross-Perkins a204689893 Use more specific node kinds for literals. (#3419)
Sounding out the approach, to make it clearer what a literal node
corresponds to.
2023-11-22 01:27:28 +00:00