* feat: add box templates and box type
This commit adds an implementation of Boxes, memory manged heap
allocated values.
Boxes are implemented as C pointers, with no additional structure but
are treated as structs in Carp. To facilitate this, we need to add them
as a clause to our special type emissions (TypesToC) as they'd otherwise
be emitted like other struct types.
Co-authored-by: Veit Heller <veit@veitheller.de>
* fix: slight memory management fix for Box
Make sure we free the box!
* test: add tests for box (including memory checks)
* Revert "fix: Ignore clang nitpick"
This reverts commit 70ec6d46d4.
* fix: update example/functor.carp
Now that a builtin type named Box exists, the definitions in this file
cause a conflict. I've renamed the "Box" type in the functor example to
remove the conflict.
* feat: add Box.peek
Box.peek allows users to transform a reference to a box into a a
reference to the box's contained value. The returned reference will have
the same lifetime as the box. This function allows callers to manipulate
the value in a box without re-allocation, for example:
```clojure
(deftype Num [val Int])
(let-do [box (Box.init (Num.init 0))]
(Num.set-val! (Box.peek &box) 1)
@(Num.val (Box.peek &box)))
```
This commit also includes tests for Box.peek.
Co-authored-by: TimDeve <TimDeve@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Veit Heller <veit@veitheller.de>
Co-authored-by: Erik Svedäng <erik@coherence.io>
Co-authored-by: TimDeve <TimDeve@users.noreply.github.com>
Constrained interfaces require little change to core carp. In rare cases
(illustrated in test/interfaces.carp) we need to make our functions
slightly more specific. This weakens inference slightly, but in my
opinion is a reasonable case of weakness and not a fault of the type
system.
Exceptional cases that were typed `a-> a` that is, cases that relied on
the previous typing errors related to interfaces, as might be expected,
no longer work (as is the case for the higher-order use of fmap in
examples/functor.carp).
Aside from that, nothing changes.
