Fixes#5826.
# Important Notes
- Change frontend representation of negation.
- Fix a precedence issue: The `.` operators in -1.x and -1.2 must have different precedences.
- Remove a no-longer-needed special case from backend translation.
- Add tests for this case after all translations.
Implement new Enso documentation parser; remove old Scala Enso parser.
Performance: Total time parsing documentation is now ~2ms.
# Important Notes
- Doc parsing is now done only in the frontend.
- Some engine tests had never been switched to the new parser. We should investigate tests that don't pass after the switch: #5894.
- The option to run the old searcher has been removed, as it is obsolete and was already broken before this (see #5909).
- Some interfaces used only by the old searcher have been removed.
`@` should not be legal to use as a binary operator. I accepted it in the parser because it occurred in the .enso sources, but it was actually used to create a syntax error to test error recovery.
See: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/184054024
Libraries: Revert changes that were necessitated by a new rule we have decided not to introduce.
Parser:
- Support mixed constructors/bindings in types.
- Disallow zero-length hex sequences in character escapes: `\x`, `\u`, `\u{}`, `\U`, `\U{}` are no longer legal synonyms for `\0` (matches old parser behavior).
Ensure all tokens from the input are represented in trees resulting from invalid inputs--tests now cover every reachable code line that creates an `Invalid` node. (Also implemented stricter validation, mainly of `import`/`export` statements.)
See: https://www.pivotaltracker.com/story/show/183405907
Fix bugs in `TreeToIr` (rewrite) and parser. Implement more undocumented features in parser. Emulate some old parser bugs and quirks for compatibility.
Changes in libs:
- Fix some bugs.
- Clean up some odd syntaxes that the old parser translates idiosyncratically.
- Constructors are now required to precede methods.
# Important Notes
Out of 221 files:
- 215 match the old parser
- 6 contain complex types the old parser is known not to handle correctly
So, compared to the old parser, the new parser parses 103% of files correctly.
- Special precedence rules for case-of so that `:` operator works without parens or nospace-grouping.
- Support an old-lambda syntax: `x->x-> x`. According to the usual rules, the first nospace group would be parsed as an operator section. The expression now parses as a lambda that contains a lambda.
- Match old parser treatment of # in doc comments.
- Tweak precedence so (a : B = c) works.
- Documented constructors.
- Implement macro-contexts-lite (`from` is now only a keyword at the beginning of a line)
- Support special nospace-group handling for old lambdas (so expressions like this work: `x-> y-> x + y`)
- Fix a text-escape incompatibility
# Important Notes
- There is now an `OperatorFunction`, which is like a `Function` but has an operator for a name, and likewise an `OperatorTypeSignature`.
