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Chandler Carruthandjosh11b
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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 --------- Co-authored-by: josh11b <15258583+josh11b@users.noreply.github.com>
Developer Utilities
This directory collects tools and utilities that may be useful to both Carbon developers and developers writing Carbon code.
Editor Support
Other Editors
Any editor that supports Language server protocol and/or tree-sitter is
supported. The editor just needs to be configured manually.
bazel build //toolchain produces the language server binary.
utils/tree_sitter contains the tree-sitter grammar.