The name "demote" is only meaningful to those who already know what
the Cryptol primitive does. Also, due to recent changes in the error
and warning messages, the name "demote" is showing up much more often
in REPL output. For example:
Defaulting type argument 'rep' of 'demote' to [2]
Showing a specific instance of polymorphic result:
* Using 'Integer' for type argument 'rep' of 'Cryptol::demote'
These messages will hopefully be made less confusing to non-experts
if the name "demote" is replaced with "number".
This does a bunch of small changes, that should improve the usability
of Cryptol. Namely:
* When we are forced to make up a name, pick something derived from
the source of the variable, annotated with the unique.
* When pretty printing a schema, use "n,m,i,j,k" for numeric variables
and "a,b,c,d,e" for value type vairable.
* When generalizing, put numeric vairables first.
The main user visible effect of this might be that sometime things on
the Cryptol command line are instantiated in a slightly different way:
we get `inf` sometimes when we got a finite example before.
We could work around this if it is an issue, but I am not sure which
behavior is more reasonable.
Recent changes resolved issue 002, so we no longer need to indicate that
it's expected to fail. Other small changes to the type checker have
made things like type variable numbers change slightly.
This change partially reverts changeset c620cbf2, which fixed#296,
which was about supporting `:t (~)` in the REPL.
As of this change, `:t (~)` will no longer work in the REPL.
The regression test for issue #296 is removed.
Fixes a bug pointed out by @weaversa:
https://github.com/GaloisInc/cryptol/issues/127#issuecomment-64464455
In addition to the other search path changes in #127, we now will add
the directory containing files to be loaded to the search path. This
applies to:
- files loaded with a command line argument, like in the original
comment
- arguments to `:l`, so for example `:l examples/DES.cry` would work
- batch file arguments, so for example running `cryptol -b
/some/path/bar.cry` adds `/some/path` to the search path.
When `:set mono-binds=on`, any local definitions lacking type
signatures will not be generalized (i.e., will be monomorphic). This
reduces what is in most cases unnecessary polymorphism that can give
rise to constraints that are difficult to solve. This also improves
the performance of the Cryptol interpreter by lifting many polymorphic
type applications out of the inner loops that are commonly defined as
bindings in `where` clauses.
The flag is on by default in the Cryptol REPL, and in most cases makes
it possible to leave out more type signatures in `where` clauses than
before. However, some programs really do rely on inferring polymorphic
types for local variables; in this case adding an explicit polymorphic
type signature to the local binding in question will make the program
typecheck.
