This enables us to stop using `Env` in the typechecker. As a byproduct, this commit also restructures the interpreter to handle run-time global initialization as part of ordinary execution, using the Action stack.
As a byproduct, replace NamedEntity with a type-erasing wrapper NamedEntityView, eliminate virtual inheritance from the AST, and eliminate interfaces from gen_rtti.
This doesn't actually use the results of name resolution, but it does verify that they are present.
Also ensures that name resolution and type checking are applied to deduced function parameters and the implicit call to `Main()`.
Co-authored-by: Jon Meow <46229924+jonmeow@users.noreply.github.com>
This enables us to stop treating the return type as a Pattern (which is really isn't), treat return types more consistently with other static types in the typechecker, and drop ReturnTypeContext.
Additional changes:
- Merge TypeCheckFunDef with TypeOfFunDef.
- Handle implicit conversions in `return` statements.
- Require function type literals to have an explicit `->`.
- Move consistency check for omitted returns from TypeChecker to ResolveControlFlow.
This starts detecting naming collisions as a consequence of being able to determine when the name is declared twice in a given scope.
Co-authored-by: Geoff Romer <gromer@google.com>
This was born out of wanting FunctionDeclaration to explicitly have a Block for a body, and became a bit more of specifying types around. Note this forces exec_program to generate a Block for print()'s body, which is probably more correct as now we can expect a standard FunctionDeclaration AST structure, even for the built-ins.
There is a syntactic change here: a continuation's body is now a Block, not just a Statement. I've added an example disallowed test case. I think this is more reasonable syntax.
Other than that, note that optional_else now generates a valid Block. This has me thinking about whether we can eliminate Sequence, but that seemed well out of scope for this.
This does a mass rename of:
- `SourceLoc()` -> `source_loc()` for property naming
- `loc` -> `source_loc_` for underscore+consistency
- Generally changing function args to `source_loc` for consistency
- `Tag()` -> `kind()` for property naming and `Kind` parity
- `tag` -> `kind_` for underscore
Also renames `Pos` and `Results` on `Action`. These are a bit of an exception in that most base classes only have `Tag` and maybe `SourceLoc`, whereas `Action` has a little more. I felt okay having `source_loc()` and `kind()` on the base class where children do `Exp()` and the like, but it felt weird to me to mix it on the same class.
The reason for doing this cross-class in one PR is so that I can do it efficiently with a global replace in the codebase, rather than e.g. changing `Expression` but having to read through compiler errors to determine where it's calling `Expression`'s `Tag` versus a different `Tag`. The end result should be equivalent.
The code is pretty intertwined: having the AST be truly mutable means (to me) changing parser.ypp to return non-const values, but then the way things are passed around between objects should be non-const (particularly an issue with lists), which then creates issues with construction of lists in the TypeChecker, which then TypeChecker needs to mostly be non-const.
Due to the difficulties in breaking this apart, whereas I'd previously considering refactoring accessor naming in the same PR, I've largely avoided doing so. The intent is then that this PR focuses mainly on const -> non-const AST behavior.
call_main moves out of interpreter.cpp so that interpreter.cpp can receive a fully const AST.
Revives BisonWrap because this seems a reasonable use of it (avoiding the need to have an std::optional or pointer for Alternative, both of which I thought could be unclear about the intent).
Sorry about the big change, this is hard to split. ParenContents is used by both, templated, and expects the same pointer type. While I could duplicate ParenContents with some ExpressionParenContents or PatternParenContents, that seems a little kludgy versus a single large change handling both. The worst of it is that Expression is already pretty sweeping, Pattern is really just incrementally adding.
That said, I believe this includes a couple fixes I found with incorrect use of dyn_cast in typecheck.cpp (checked nullptr at the wrong step in 2 code locations). There's also a missing `*` in member.cpp this caught. I adjust passing of expressions for Return due to nullness (I felt adding another constructor was the best solution).
I add a `.Release()` to BisonWrap due to things like `$3.first` needing some way to work through BIsonWrap. I felt this was better than `operator->`, but feel free to comment if you prefer the other path (`.Release()` conveniently lets me do pair unwrapping, so it felt a better solution).
I do add a TODO to think about better Ptr-to-Ptr cast<> support too, though, as that doesn't work cleanly with LLVM's infra. But so far it seems to only come up in one spot, so I'm not prioritizing it.
This opens up a path for switching `int line_num` to a `Location loc`, which I want to do for tracking filenames of code. But I don't think we should have a default constructor on `Location` to avoid mistakes, and switching FunctionDefinition to an arena alloc seems more consistent anyways.
`Pattern` is intended to pilot some changes I would like to apply to all our sum types:
- The alternatives are expressed as derived classes rather than members of a `std::variant`.
- The alternatives are classes in the [style guide sense](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Structs_vs._Classes), meaning they can have invariants, but can't have public data members.
- Creating an object is expressed using a constructor rather than a factory function.
- Accessing an alternative is expressed as a cast (using LLVM's RTTI system) rather than `std::get` or a `Get` method.
Co-authored-by: Jon Meow <46229924+jonmeow@users.noreply.github.com>
- Switch code to llvm::raw_ostream as part of standardizing output forms.
- Preferring llvm::raw_ostream over std::ostream because other tooling code should be expected to rely on llvm more closely, and an overall preference towards library consistency.
- There are a couple spots in syntax/ that still use std streams, but I'd prefer to take a separate PR to see how best to address those.
- std::boolalpha doesn't work with llvm, so I've implemented equivalent in a couple places (not enough that it felt like worth making a helper function).
- Implement Print(ostream) as consistently as we can, as an instance member.
- This facilitates the use of the common/ostream.h template to provide operators.
- Preferring this approach so that Print is easily accessible via gdb, per suggestion on #executable-semantics.
- Switch code currently calling `type->Print(ostream)` to instead do `ostream << *type`.
- Remove the unused `PrintTypeEnv`, nothing used it and the declaration didn't match the definition.
Note this makes some structural choices that I'm not sure how popular they'll be... Most notably, I could remove `DeclarationKind` because I'm using `std::visit` and `Declaration::Visitor` in reality. I could go to `switch(tag())` instead, but I'm wondering if this approach will be well received for the separation of ownership. Alternatively, I could move `Declaration` around so that it actually implements the things like `TopLevel` -- I did feel weird with the old structure of typecheck.cpp implementing members of declaration.h, though.
Making Values const allows us to separate the actual mutations (search for "*&" in this change) from places where the Value is effectively passed by-value.
* global variables
* implemented type checking of global variable, added test case
* added a comment
* improvements based on Dave's suggestions
* improvements based on Jon's suggestions
* added test cases about global variable ordering
* improve abstraction for AssocList, fix bug in optional else
* add flag for tracing output, clean up code for output
* turned off tracing by default, updated goldens, removed two examples that use pointers, shouldn't have been there yet
This change creates an unpleasant amount of boilerplate where `Declaration` is declared, in exchange for being able to—very pleasantly—treat it as a simple value that composes with other values everywhere it is used. Applying this technique broadly will pay off in code comprehensibility; once it has been done for all things being new'd, pointers disappear and references are only needed as an idiomatic approximation of inout. The unpleasant code grows only when new polymorphic operations are added, and then only a bit, and is an idiom whose details can readily be ignored once in place. The pleasant code pervades the codebase.
Too bad we don't have existential types in C++ ;-)
Geoff Romer
Jon Meow
Jeremy G. Siek
Dave Abrahams