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Author SHA1 Message Date
Marcin Kostrzewa
4fc6dcced0
Get rid of free-floating atoms. Everything has a type now! (#3671)
This is a step towards the new language spec. The `type` keyword now means something. So we now have
```
type Maybe a
Some (from_some : a)
None
```
as a thing one may write. Also `Some` and `None` are not standalone types now – only `Maybe` is.
This halfway to static methods – we still allow for things like `Number + Number` for backwards compatibility. It will disappear in the next PR.

The concept of a type is now used for method dispatch – with great impact on interpreter code density.

Some APIs in the STDLIB may require re-thinking. I take this is going to be up to the libraries team – some choices are not as good with a semantically different language. I've strived to update stdlib with minimal changes – to make sure it still works as it did.

It is worth mentioning the conflicting constructor name convention I've used: if `Foo` only has one constructor, previously named `Foo`, we now have:
```
type Foo
Foo_Data f1 f2 f3
```

This is now necessary, because we still don't have proper statics. When they arrive, this can be changed (quite easily, with SED) to use them, and figure out the actual convention then.

I have also reworked large parts of the builtins system, because it did not work at all with the new concepts.

It also exposes the type variants in SuggestionBuilder, that was the original tiny PR this was based on.

PS I'm so sorry for the size of this. No idea how this could have been smaller. It's a breaking language change after all.
2022-08-30 22:54:53 +00:00
James Dunkerley
a54a7d5553
Tidying up what is in Standard.Base (#3603)
- Added various of the types from the new APIs to the Standard.Base export.
- Removed Syntax_Error types for Regex and Uri and used the common one.
2022-07-27 13:28:00 +00:00
Hubert Plociniczak
96e50648dd
Remove 'here' and make method name resolution case-sensitive (#3538)
Modified UppercaseNames to now resolve methods without an explicit `here` to point to the current module.
`here` was also often used instead of `self` which was allowed by the compiler.
Therefore UppercaseNames pass is now GlobalNames and does some extra work -
it translated method calls without an explicit target into proper applications.

# Important Notes
There was a long-standing bug in scopes usage when compiling standalone expressions.
This resulted in AliasAnalysis generating incorrect graphs and manifested itself only in unit tests
and when running `eval`, thus being a bit hard to locate.
See `runExpression` for details.

Additionally, method name resolution is now case-sensitive.

Obsolete passes like UndefinedVariables and ModuleThisToHere were removed. All tests have been adapted.
2022-07-07 10:31:06 +00:00
James Dunkerley
a0c6fa9c96
Removing old functions and tidy up of Table types (#3519)
- Removed `select` method.
- Removed `group` method.
- Removed `Aggregate_Table` type.
- Removed `Order_Rule` type.
- Removed `sort` method from Table.
- Expanded comments on `order_by`.
- Update comment on `aggregate` on Database.
- Update Visualisation to use new APIs.
- Updated Data Science examples to use new APIs.
- Moved Examples test out of Tests to own test.

# Important Notes
Need to get Examples_Tests added to CI.
2022-06-14 13:37:20 +00:00