* temporary and undocumented while waiting for discussion an approval
* previous patches already allowed definition (at toplevel) but there was no
syntax for calls
* no syntax for multi-args _local_ functions yet
Using them will lead to "not supported yet" errors soon after, but it's a start
to get to handling separate modules.
The idea is that `foo` can now also be `Bar.foo`, `Bar.Baz.foo`, `foo.Struc.fld`
can be `foo.Bar.Baz.Struc.fld`, etc.
The next steps are to enable the lookups to handle this paths, and to provide
ways to load the external modules to feed these lookups.
Closes#373
This forbids expressions such as `a and b or c`, avoiding the need to set an
implicit priority between `and`, `or` and `xor`, which I find error-prone.
Instead, when that appears, a message asking for explicit parentheses will be
shown to the user.
Implementation note: since that would be extremely tedious to do in the parser
directly, the parser is set to allow right-associativity without discrimination
for the logical operators, and the check is done during desugaring. This
required to explicit parentheses in the surface AST to discriminate the case
where the priority was explicit.
This uses the same disambiguation mechanism put in place for
structures, calling the typer on individual rules on the desugared AST
to propagate types, in order to resolve ambiguous operators like `+`
to their strongly typed counterparts (`+!`, `+.`, `+$`, `+@`, `+$`) in
the translation to scopelang.
The patch includes some normalisation of the definition of all the
operators, and classifies them based on their typing policy instead of
their arity. It also adds a little more flexibility:
- a couple new operators, like `-` on date and duration
- optional type annotation on some aggregation constructions
The `Shared_ast` lib is also lightly restructured, with the `Expr`
module split into `Type`, `Operator` and `Expr`.
Quite a few changes are included here, some of which have some extra
implications visible in the language:
- adds the `Scope of { -- input_v: value; ... }` construct in the language
- handle it down the pipeline:
* `ScopeCall` in the surface AST
* `EScopeCall` in desugared and scopelang
* expressions are now traversed to detect dependencies between scopes
* transformed into a normal function call in dcalc
- defining a scope now implicitely defines a structure with the same name, with
the output variables of the scope defined as fields. This allows us to type
the return value from a scope call and access its fields easily.
* the implications are mostly in surface/name_resolution.ml code-wise
* the `Scope_out` struct that was defined in scope_to_dcalc is no longer
needed/used and the fields are no longer renamed (changes some outputs; the
explicit suffix for variables with multiple states is ignored as well)
* one benefit is that disambiguation works just like for structures when there
are conflicts on field names
* however, it's now a conflict if a scope and a structure have the same
name (side-note: issues with conflicting enum / struct names or scope
variables / subscope names were silent and are now properly reported)
- you can consequently use scope names as types for variables as well. Writing
literals is not allowed though, they can only be obtained by calling the
scope.
Remaining TODOs:
- context variables are not handled properly at the moment
- error handling on invalid calls
- tests show a small error message regression; lots of examples will need
tweaking to avoid scope/struct name or struct fields / output variable
conflicts
- add a `->` syntax to make struct field access distinct from scope output var
access, enforced with typing. This is expected to reduce confusion of users
and add a little typing precision.
- document the new syntax & implications (tutorial, cheat-sheet)
- a consequence of the changes is that subscope variables also can now be typed.
A possible future evolution / simplification would be to rewrite subscopes as
explicit scope calls early in the pipeline. That could also allow to manipulate
them as expressions (bind them in let-ins, return them...)
this patch is just a bunch of `sed` commands
```shell
cd compiler
sed -i 's/Pos.marked/Marked.pos/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
sed -i 's/Pos.unmark/Marked.unmark/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
sed -i 's/Pos\.get_position/Marked.get_mark/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
sed -i 's/Pos\.same_pos_as/Marked.same_mark_as/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
sed -i 's/Pos\.map_under_mark/Marked.map_under_mark/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
sed -i 's/Pos\.mark/Marked.mark/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
sed -i 's/Pos\.compare_marked/Marked.compare/g' *.ml* **/*.ml*
```
