This is just the declaration, without initialization. Partly breaking it out because I'm changing the placeholder builtin types.
Might also need to separate out storage of the var from the name bind.
Initially I'd added this to lexer, this includes parser and semantics. Also adds ComparableIndexBase to unify a few common cases where <> comparisons are supported.
Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
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.
This starts adding builtins with TypeType and IntegerLiteralType. Note, structurally that's all they are, and not directly accessible in any way.
Adds a type field to SemanticsNode. Now, IntegerLiteralType can be identified as having type=TypeType, and IntegerLiteral as type=IntegerLiteralType. The current iteration doesn't do anything for type propagation, because I wanted to avoid making this too big.
This also switches the Identifier IR to instead BindName, with some side-effects. I'd been trying to think how to provide a name for TypeType, and switching around how things worked seemed like a better approach. And while I think it's the right direction (e.g., alias should just be a BindName), I also realized I don't need to name TypeType: there's probably a keyword to refer to the builtin, so it shouldn't use regular name lookup.
As a step towards builtins, provide more blocks. The intent is that any significant scope change will become its own NodeBlock. Builtins should produce the first set of node blocks.
Note, SemanticsIR as set up here isn't handling ordering of import processing -- I haven't thought that through much beyond that we probably want some lighter-weight processing of the parse tree to achieve it. But I think the essence of loading builtins first as their own IR block is... probably right?
I'm thinking about how to handle multiple files, and I think the current IRFactory is useful as a file-focused thing. So shifting/renaming accordingly. (doing this in its own PR to make the history a little cleaner for git's move detection)
This rewrites semantics towards a more pure instruction model, in pursuit of the simple instruction-style output.
I think I can get this approach to type-check as it goes along, but obviously this change doesn't prove that yet. I'm separating it out because it's a large rewrite of the semantics structure, tossing out a lot of what was there before. But I think it does help towards several requests, like setting up a clear path for consolidating duplicate identifiers and making the node style more standardized.
I expect to need to pass multiple args to function calls, that'd probably be storing vectors of args similar to how I'm showing identifiers and integer literals stored.
This removes the semantics namespace because (a) it was getting annoying writing the `::` everywhere, and (b) I think the leaning with Carbon is to avoid namespaces (@chandlerc asked not to put SemanticsIR/SemanticsFactory in a namespace, which is the crux of the issue). But, it's still necessary to avoid name conflicts so I just prefix everything with "Semantics" (still a lot of typing, but no `::`).
This builds on semantics-ir lit support added by #2222
The googletest setup was feeling cumbersome, especially as I'm thinking about how to add more testing: I feel like I'm wrestling with the infrastructure.
The `[[ID1]]` and so on in tests is one advantage of switching: it's easier to do matching of IDs for verification. This is also more agnostic about the numbers than before, something which I'm concerned will be important as I think about builtins.
To explain my builtins thought, I think that needs to be another SemanticsIR with basically names pointing at builtin things. But this (a) creates multiple SemanticsIRs, which would confuse the current singleton approach and (b) starts creating more fluctuation for IDs, potentially impacting the numbers used (also, chandlerc's suggested pointers for some use-cases).
Overall it felt like I was heading towards a situation with googletest where writing the tests would be really difficult, and it was adding to my hesitance to write more code in the toolchain. I'm hoping this acts as a simplification.
Note, the "cp" commit has some incremental changes to googletest that I'd considered for making it easier to add matchers, but ultimately I ended up with this outcome.
This unifies `dump-tokens` and `dump-parse-tree` so that we don't keep writing basically the same code repeatedly.
I'll need to modify the output of SemanticsIR::Print more, and may soon unify printing multiple IRs this way (particularly including the builtins SemanticsIR) but this is intended to offer a starting point.
I may eventually try to unify lit.cfg.py files, but I was thinking about whether that works in various contexts we may run in and eventually decided copying the driver/testdata/lit.cfg.py file would be the easiest solution.
This is how I'm interpreting discussion:
- Basic elements are getting set to an ID.
- SetName exists to assign a name (which can then be referred to later with an identifier expression) to an ID.
- Expressions are broken down into a series of operations which operate on IDs.
So with something like the last test:
```
fn Main() { return 12 + 34; }
```
This becomes:
```
Function(%0,
{IntegerLiteral(%3, 12),
IntegerLiteral(%2, 34),
BinaryOperator(%1, +, %3, %2),
Return(%1),
})
SetName(`Main`, %0)
```
Note I'm treating blocks as fairly equal to the top of a file now, and basically eliminating boundaries between things. That's because we have discussed also supporting code like:
```
fn Foo() {
fn Bar() {}
Bar();
}
```
Here a declaration of a function is occurring inside a code block, so it felt like eliminating the difference was the best choice.
I know you'd commented on the separation of nodes to individual files before; I still think we're going to have a lot of different types of nodes, and so separating them out into individual files makes them easier to browse.
Working on toolchain semantics:
- SemanticsIR is set up as a container for the semantic tree.
- SemanticsIRFactory builds the tree, with separate transformations for each ParseNodeKind.
- ParseSubtreeConsumer is a helper for transforming a ParseTree::Node's children, managing size/nodes to prevent errors.
- The nodes subdirectory contains SemanticIR nodes.
- MetaNode is used to represent nodes which have "sub-classes": Statements, Declarations, and Expressions.
- MetaNodeBlock is used to represent nodes which exist together in a block with name lookup: Statements and Declarations (not Expressions).
This is traversing children first in order to address the RPO format of ParseTree. This means that when lists are formed, they're reversed to be in code-order (`FixReverseOrdering`).
This is still very much incomplete -- the main intent at present is to demonstrate structure.
Jon Ross-Perkins
