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".
Note: the hardcoding in this patch is only for the 2.2 hotfix branch; in
the 2.3 branch we will only have to change the default setting for the
typechecker.
Previously we were just using Prelude's `readFile`, which uses the
system default locale. This meant that people writing Cryptol in other
locales might produce source files that work fine for them but not
others. Now the interpreter sets the default locale to utf8 at startup.
Additionally, the code to catch exceptions from loading modules was too
lazy, allowing exceptions to bring down the whole process when the
module contents were forced outside of the `try`.
We also assumed that any IO exception was from files not being found;
there's now an "Other IO exception" possiblity. Incorrect locales will
trigger this alternative because the actual IOException raised isn't
specific to locale errors.
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.
This tries to address #125 by making the errors from the renamer a little bit
more clear.
Squashed commit of the following:
commit 8afd3d7961b58df042fe801c3c5e1b9787f813bc
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 19:33:59 2014 -0800
Update tests for new renamer errors
commit 7cac01836d8943cf3b08d6715ac328e3b6658cef
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 19:33:49 2014 -0800
Add `at` on errors and warnings to be more consistent
commit 308908ba318a4cdc839710f66f1a487543f8c07e
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 19:06:57 2014 -0800
More consistent renamer warnings
commit be8100a78e9eaba6d554591121c24ed5dcd3c780
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 18:56:53 2014 -0800
More consistent error formatting from the renamer
commit 26c45c3b51e0bdbcf6a1431cab8e1eb8760ea0bb
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 18:56:36 2014 -0800
Remove an un-triggerable error
commit ccdb93e036ba1e111ccd977c8b3b35523f3c1bf0
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 16:38:44 2014 -0800
Try to give better errors for unbound identifiers
commit eb5784145985bb55c761088eaba27c67d08c1326
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 16:38:23 2014 -0800
Remove old TODOs about located errors
commit b984bb5f451f3aa7b4fc8f15167483c5142ee9a3
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 14:37:34 2014 -0800
Differentiate missing type and expression symbols
commit b9e6f13856db6765dced3cb9565cdc8387a7976d
Author: Trevor Elliott <trevor@galois.com>
Date: Wed Dec 3 14:36:52 2014 -0800
Remove a shadowing warning
