This performs `.Self` substitution in a single step, for the whole facet
type, instead of doing it individually for each constraint visited in
the top-level facet type. Then we don't need to track state to avoid
subst in constraints that come from other named constraints.
The semir changes are because we now generate a whole other FacetType
from the substitution.
Carbon currently requires a comment to be the only non-whitespace on its
line. A `//` comment that follows other content on a line, called a
_trailing comment_, is a lexer error. This proposal removes that
restriction, allowing a comment to follow other content on a line.
Everything else about comments is unchanged: a comment still begins with
`//`, still requires whitespace after the `//`, and still runs to the
end of the line. Carbon continues to provide only line comments; no
block or intra-line comments are added.
Three observations motivate the change. First, trailing comments are
well suited to short _annotations_ attached to a specific entity or
value on a line. Second, the lexer design now makes it trivial to lex
trailing comments, and in fact requires extra logic and potentially cost
to reject them. Third, C++ code routinely uses trailing comments, so
allowing them lets Carbon carry the layout of migrated code over
directly, rather than reworking each comment to read well in a different
structure.
Implementation notes (beyond the proposal's design):
Keeping trailing comments cheap to lex required a few supporting
changes, all of which keep the cost off the lexer's hot path:
- The lexer already dispatches `//` to comment lexing wherever it
appears, so classifying a comment as trailing is a single O(1) check of
whether the `//` is the line's first non-whitespace (`start + indent`).
The hot comment path is otherwise unchanged.
- That check relies on each line's recorded indentation being its real
leading whitespace. Multi-line string literals previously recorded the
column where the literal opened for the lines they span; they now record
the true (closing-delimiter) indentation instead.
- Parser error recovery (`SkipPastLikelyEnd`) had relied on that
opening-column indentation to keep tokens following a multi-line string
literal attached to the same construct. It now reconstructs that
relationship directly by consulting the line on which the literal
opened, including when other tokens follow the closing delimiter (such
as `''' + "more"`). This is on the cold recovery path.
- `CommentData` records the trailing bit in the high bit of its length
field, keeping it at 8 bytes.
Assisted-by: Claude Code
When we find a named constraint during identity, we recurse into it. The
specific args of the named constraint may contain references to `.Self`
which can then make `.Self` appear inside the named constraint, which
was making us replace `.Self` at multiple levels and incorrectly. The
first specific argument replaces `Self` in the named constraint, and we
pass in the self-type of the identify operation. This may contain
`.Self` and we should _not_ be replacing the `.Self` references with the
self-type that they are contained within. This led to infinite cycles.
In the meantime, we have made the toolchain reject any ambiguous `.Self`
from being constructed. So we know there is only one value of `.Self`
around in a facet type.
So now we replace `.Self` only in the top level facet type during
identity. That means replacing `.Self` in the specifics of the named
constraints that we recurse into. But we do _not_ replace `.Self`
anymore inside those named constraints. This resolves the infinite loop.
At the same time, when we are identifying an `impls` constraint from
earlier in the same facet type, like `C impls Z(.Self)` we are
identifying with a self-type of `C`. We want the output to use `C` as
the self-type since we should get back an identified facet type that
says `C impls Z(.Self)`. But we do _not_ want to replace the `.Self`
there since we're inside a facet type and the `.Self` does not refer to
`C`. So we parameterize `TryToIdentifyFacetType` to not replace `.Self`
when identifying an `impls` constraint from the `where_stack()`. This
resolves a large number of `fail_todo_` tests.
Impl lookup identifies the types of facets in the query, replacing
`.Self` in each type with the facet. This allows references using the
facet from outside the facet type to match similar structures inside the
facet type.
However replacing `.Self` with the facet can re-evaluate symbolic impl
lookups inside the facet type. These can perform deduction in generic
`final impl`s, which can attempt to convert the facet. Convert does an
impl lookup with that facet in the query, which causes us to form an
infinite recursion cycle.
Add tests that caused such a cycle, to demonstrate we no longer crash.
Some of these tests fail impl lookups using concrete values in the query
that match values from a `final impl`, with TODOs to address them.
Instead of traversing the entire pattern block looking for
`VarPattern`s, we keep track of them on creation, and then build
`VarStorage`s directly from that list.
This also gets rid of the global `var_storage_map`, and instead keep
that information narrowly scoped to each full-pattern, and consume it in
a single linear traversal instead of with random-access lookups. To
enable that, this fixes a parse bug where nested `var` patterns were
getting diagnosed but not marked as errors.
In #7378 we forbid writing `where` on the RHS of another `where`
expression. However it's still possible to inject a `where` expression
through eval, using an `alias` or an `eval fn`. We address this by
looking in the constant value of constraints of a `WhereExpr` (which
sees the outcome of eval) and searching for a nested `where` there. We
can determine a facet type was written with a nested `where` by seeing
that it has some non-extend constraint.
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Co-authored-by: David Blaikie <dblaikie@gmail.com>
If the deduction fails while forming the parameter type, ensure that we
print an actual diagnostic saying what went wrong.
And always ensure that an invalid array bounds error points at a
location. The `inst_id` given to `EvalConstantInst` always has a
location, but the `bounds_id` instruction inside it may be canonical
when it's coming from inside a larger type. So when it is, fall back to
using the location of the whole array inst.
This disallows building a facet type that contains another facet type
with non-extend constraints in it. Which in turn prevents the
possibility of introducing a different `.Self` into a facet type.
Eval can still insert a facet type with non-extend constraints, as we
only prevent it for `where` being written into the facet type. There is
a TODO in handle_where.cpp for this and some tests in
toolchain/check/testdata/facet/nested_facet_types_from_eval.carbon
In `PerformActionHelper`, use the unqualified type for lookup.
In `PerformInstanceBinding`, propagate qualifiers to the unbound element
type's class type when doing the `ConvertToValueOrRefOfType` conversion,
and to the element type when forming the `ClassElementAccess` instr
(except for `partial`, which is only used if the member being accessed
is `base`).
In handle_operator.cpp, prevent assignment to a reference to a const
type.
Move the existing derived->base conversion earlier in
`PerformBuiltinConversion`, into the block that handles qualifier
conversions. This allows, for example, converting from `partial Derived`
to `partial Base` -- see the tests in
`toolchain/check/testdata/class/inheritance/derived_to_base.carbon`.
The function to set the visible declarations with a given name
overwrites any existing declarations imported from an AST file, so we
need to avoid calling that for declaration contexts whose names are
managed by Clang to avoid clobbering names imported from modules.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Depending on the order in which type completion identifies things in the
facet type, it may try to replace `.Self` with a facet that fails to
convert to the type of `.Self` due to a monomorphization error. We
should fail gracefully, not crash.
Formatting an instruction with an initializing expr category will call
`FindStorageArgForInitializer()` to get the target id.
`GetExprCategory()` supports imported instructions by walking to the
imported IR, in order to get the expr category. We do the same in
`FindStorageArgForInitializer()`, instead of hitting a CARBON_CHECK.
The new test crashes without the changes here.
Notably this allows accessing fields in an abstract base class via a
derived class without going through `base`. E.g.
`my_obj.field_in_base_class` rather than
`my_obj.base.field_in_base_class`.
In `Convert`, allow forming a value or reference of abstract class type,
but not an initializer.
For now, limit the scope to just `ClassElementAccess` to avoid affecting
tests where I'm unclear if allowing abstract types is correct.
This test was assuming that we'd allow qualified lookup in rewrite
constraints, but that is not in agreement with the design. The design
says that the LHS of a rewrite must be a member access designator like
`.Member`.
If C++ overload resolution selects a builtin operator candidate for an
enum comparison or bitwise operator, provide support for that operator
by generating a corresponding Carbon builtin function. This is
structured to be easily extensible to other C++ builtin overload
candidates if we so choose, but for now the operators defined in the
prelude are doing what we want in most cases.
Bitwise operators on enums produce the same enum type as a result. This
intentionally deviates from C++, where they produce a promoted integral
type.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
When a facet type contains a rewrite constraint like `.(J.J1).(I.I1)`
the ImplWitnessAccess should only use its RHS value if it's trying to
find `.(J.J1).(I.I1)`. It can't just look at the `.(I.I1)` part or it
may grab the RHS for a similar `.(K.K2).(I.I1)` rewrite.
While it's not possible to write a nested access on the LHS of a rewrite
constraint like `.(J.J1).(I.I1)`, it is possible to construct a facet
type that ends up with that as its rewrite using nested facet types:
```carbon
T:! J where .J1 impls (I where .I1 = ())
```
The access `T.(J.J1).(I.I1)` should evaluate to `()`. The
ImplWitnessAccess evaluation starts by looking for a rewrite of
`.(I.I1)` in the type of the access self, which is `T.(J.J1)`. Then it
looks for `.(I.I1)` in the type of that access self, which is `T`. At
that point it finds the rewrite of `.(J.J1).(I.I1) = ()` and can use the
`()`. However it can also find other rewrites that end in `.(I.I1)`.
To do this correctly, when moving through an ImplWitnessAccess to the
next nested access self, we record the access (interface, element) pair
that we are looking through. And then we require the rewrite constraint
to be prefixed by all of the (interface, element) pairs that we have
recorded.
- A test showing we need to search facets in the specific interface of
an access to find a witness
- A test using a `<type> impls ...` constraint from earlier in the same
facet type
- Some tests to show a rewrite constraint from earlier in the same facet
type is not incorrectly used when it's applied to a different facet
- A test of a facet type with a rewrite as the RHS of another rewrite,
and the rewrite there should not leak or access things from the outer
facet type
The bulk of this change is changing most pattern insts to be `Always`
rather than `AlwaysUnique` constants, so that they can be wrapped in
`SpecificConstant`s to perform substitution. That then lets thunking
rely much more on `SpecificConstant` wrappers instead of deep-copying
the inst tree with modified types.
This approach to thunking should scale better, particularly as things
like form generics make function signatures more complex, because we can
leverage the existing support for constant evaluation and substitution.
Unfortunately, applying this approach to binding patterns will require
more work; see the TODO near the top of `thunk.cpp` for details.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Converting an integer value to a destination type that is not a valid
integer type -- such as `i8388609` or `i16777216`, whose bit widths are
diagnosed as invalid -- hit a CHECK failure in
`TypeStore::GetIntTypeInfo` during constant evaluation of `int.convert`
/ `int.convert_checked`:
```
CHECK failure at toolchain/sem_ir/type.cpp:189: int_info: Type type(...) is not an integer type
```
The width error is already diagnosed when forming the type
(`IntWidthNotMultipleOf8` / `IntWidthTooLarge`), so `PerformIntConvert`
and `PerformCheckedIntConvert` now use `TryGetIntTypeInfo` and produce
an error value instead of crashing, following the existing
`SemIR::ErrorInst::ConstantId` convention in `eval.cpp`.
Added a file test covering all three reproducers from the issue
(`i8388609`, `i16777216`, `Core.Int(8388609)`); it crashes without this
change. The full `//toolchain/testing:file_test` suite (1578 tests)
passes.
Fixes#7278.
I have reviewed this change and take responsibility for it.
Assisted-by: Claude
Because we now support calling a function with a `self` parameter
directly, we can unconditionally call `operator$(lhs, rhs)` rather than
calling `lhs.operator$(rhs)` if the selected operator function happens
to be a member function.
This makes the logic a bit simpler and the SemIR a bit smaller.
We can't do the same for Carbon operators, unfortunately, as we use the
member access to trigger impl lookup.
A binding can have a constant value that is an `ErrorInst` during error
recovery. In that case, deduction would crash when attempting to
diagnose that the binding had no deduced value.
Adds support for arithmetic and comparison operators on
`Core.CharLiteral`s, as well as conversions between `CharLiteral` and
integer types.
Make some minor tweaks to fix skill issues encountered while making this
change.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Implements proposal #7016: `self` moves from the deduced implicit list
(`fn F[self: Self]()`) to the front of the explicit list. Its type may
be written explicitly (`fn F(self: Self)`) or omitted, in which case it
defaults to `Self` (`fn F(self)`, `fn F(ref self)`); `self` in the
implicit list is rejected.
Throughout checking, `self` is modeled as the first explicit parameter.
Because a method is just a function whose first parameter is `self`, it
can also be called as an ordinary function with the receiver passed
explicitly (`Type.M(obj, ...)`), not only as `obj.M(...)`. A new
`SemIR::CallArgParamPatterns` helper chooses the parameters matched
against the explicit arguments, excluding a leading `self` only when it
is supplied as a method-call receiver; arity checking, conversion, and
generic deduction use it. The resulting SemIR and lowering are
unchanged: `self` is still `call_param0`, and witnesses, thunks, and
vtables are unaffected.
An omitted `self` type is parsed as a `SelfBindingPattern` node with no
type expression; checking synthesizes the `Self` type so it behaves
exactly like `self: Self`. However, the exact spelling used must match
between a forward declaration and a definition, following #3763's rules
around declaration matching.
Generated functions, thunks, and C++ interop import/export build `self`
as the first explicit parameter, and the `self`-type override (e.g.
Derived->Base for a virtual override) applies to the explicit `self`.
Placement is validated by new diagnostics: `SelfInImplicitParamList`,
`SelfNotFirstParam`, and `SelfOutsideParamList`. The benchmark source
generator and the documentation adopt the `(self)` shorthand; the
prelude, the examples, and the test data are migrated in the following
commits.
Assisted-by: Claude Code with Claude Opus 4.7
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Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
Adapters were erroneously satisfying `Core.Destroy` because we were
directly getting the object's representation without consideration for
abstract and adapted types. This change ensures that adapted types'
representations are used instead of the adapter types.
This helps us move away from the clone-with-modifications approach to
thunking, which gets unwieldy as signatures get more complex.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Instead of silently producing an `ErrorInst::InstId` when looking up a
private qualified name in the current package, bypass the access check.
We don't need it -- private names from other libraries are filtered out
by the import logic.
Also fix `DiagnoseInvalidQualifiedNameAccess` to actually always produce
a diagnostic, instead of silently ignoring access control failures in
non-class types. This is a no-op after the fix to the access logic,
since we only allow access control at class and namespace scope
currently, but should avoid this issue from recurring when that changes.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
We exposed `Core.IntLiteral()`, `Core.FloatLiteral()`,
`Core.CharLiteral()`, and `Core.Bool()` as functions as a workaround,
because we had no way to provide the type names without parentheses that
the design requests. But now we can do so, by using an alias. Switch all
of these over from being functions to simply being names of the
corresponding types.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
This ensures the clang_decls map is used as a cache - without this,
visiting the same entity twice could cause it to be
re-exported/duplicated. See attached test case.
Replace all uses of CppGlobalVarStore store with ClangDeclStore.
Adding a VarStorage->VarDecl mapping to ClangDeclStore is now done with
the `AddVar` method, which takes an extra `pattern_id` arg. While the
corresponding `ClangDecl` is unchanged from before, the reverse mapping
in `inst_id_to_clang_decl_id_` now uses the `pattern_id` as the key.
This is necessary because in some places the original VarStorage
instructions gets replaced (e.g. by a call to `Convert`). The
`pattern_id` remains stable in those cases.
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Co-authored-by: Richard Smith <richard@metafoo.co.uk>
Fix import logic to make all imported packages be children of the
`NameScopeId::Package` scope. Previously, indirectly-imported packages
would end up as children of their importing package's scope, which
resulted in them not being treated as packages at all, and in particular
not being fingerprinted as packages.
Fixing that caused a failure in the fingerprinting logic as we started
to encounter packages with no correspoding import scopes. Instead of
looking for import scopes, use a simpler mechanism to map packages to
their package names, and clean up.
Unfortunately the latter change churns all the fingerprints again :(
Hopefully this is the last time for a while.
Fix a lowering crash when lowering a return by reference of a type with
an in-place initializing representation. We previously misinterpreted
this as an in-place initializing return.
This is addressed by changing lowering to interpret a `ReturnExpr` of a
reference expression as a reference return. However, that exposes
another issue: `return var;` produces a `ReturnExpr` of a reference
expression in the case where it returns in place! To fix that, we switch
`return var;` to producing a `ReturnExpr` of a value expression
regardless of whether the function has a return slot. This makes the
representation of `return var;` more uniform:
* If the expression is a reference, we're performing a `ref` return.
* If the expression is an initializing expression, we're performing a
normal by-initialization return.
* If the expression is a value expression, we're performing a `return
var;`.
Implement support for floating-point <-> integer type conversions as
described in #820 and #845, extended to support `unsafe as` conversions
for the conversions that can't be expressed as either implicit
conversions or `as` conversions.
One tricky part here is conversions from floating-point literals to
integer types. Such literals may have both a very large mantissa and a
corresponding somewhat large negative exponent, and still produce a
result that is in the range of values that a small integer type can
represent. In order to support that while avoiding building very large
2^N or 10^N constants in general, we first compute a conservative
approximation of the number of bits necessary to represent the integer
result, with an early exit if the number is either definitely too large
or definitely zero. The remaining cases have a reasonable bound on the
size of integer necessary to compute the base^exponent multiplicand.
Assisted-by: Gemini via Antigravity
Add `ExportVarToCpp`. This checks the `clang_decls` mapping and returns
an existing decl if found. Otherwise, it creates a new `VarDecl` and
adds it to the `clang_decls` mapping.
When lowering, in `FileContext::BuildGlobalVariableDecl`, the
`clang_decls` mapping is used to lookup an existing
`llvm::GlobalVariable` for the instruction. If found, use that rather
than creating a new one to avoid an unwanted second definition in the
llvm IR.
This change adds rudimentary support for C++ ranges in Carbon range-for
loops. Since C++ ranges are exposed through `Core.Iterate`, C++ ranges
have the same limitations as Carbon ranges (e.g. can't return
references).
`Iterate.CursorType` now requires `Destroy`, since types that implement
`CppRangeForIterate` can't be used in range-for loops unless their
cursor type can be verifiably destructible.
Since we can't currently iterate over ranges as references, the
`CppUnsafeDeref` interface can't require types that implement it to take
or return references.
Update the orphan rule to require a name to be defined within, or by,
the same scope as the impl declaration. Since libraries can not be
nested, this also enforces the old rule, but rejects more impl
declarations. In particular, it rejects an impl declaration in a generic
context which would have no way to provide a value for the generic
bindings it inherited from its enclosing scope, making the impl
unusable.
Discussed in open discussion
[2026-05-04](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mjllGO3ZCL4qGt9uJHUtcxKoHAGEY7Y999ie4EtBWB8/edit?tab=t.3ifnhz83n73d#heading=h.p45zfugbmdih).
When we import from another library in the same package, its entities
end up with our library as their parent scope, resulting in cross-file
fingerprint mismatches. Instead, only include the library ID when
fingerprinting either a package-private entity or an `ImportIRId` that
refers to a particular `SemIR::File`.