The Int represented the resolved name, but this isn't guaranteed to be
up to date after reloading and, worse, it doesn't display helpfully. I'm
bored of updating the tests which fail as a result!
This also fixes#407, which is about displaying the wrong name after
reloading the ttc.
There is an argument that, for import public, this should be automatic
(that is, the publicly imported things should be reexported with the
parent namespace). I decided not to do this, because another use of
import public which we do a lot in the Idris 2 code base is purely as a
convenience, where we still expect things to be in their original
namespace.
Also, where there's a choice between things being explicit and implicit,
I prefer to err on the side of explicit now.
So, if what you really want in an API is to reexport, you can do that,
but explicitly.
Instead of just the cursory name update that we used to do (which didn't
work properly anyway for a lot of reasons), now we add aliases for all
the names in the imported module.
So, like Idris 1, every global has a canonical name by which we can
refer to it, but it can also have aliases via "import ... as".
If we have a delayed thing, but we don't yet know the expected type,
don't commit to forcing because the expected type might turn out to be a
delay.
Fixes#395
'convert' doesn't solve holes, so might reject things that are solvable.
This can be an issue when resolving interfaces, because we were using
convert for arguments of the invertible holes that arise when trying to
resolve them. Fixes#66.
We need to make sure they are inferred again when elaborating methods,
so substitute in a _ in method types before substituting in the explicit
parameters.
In future, it might (probably will) also be useful to allow giving the
implicit parameters explicitly when defining implementations.
Fixes#374
It's worth delaying in case doing some more work (and some more
interface resolution) can make the type more concrete. This makes
test linear011 work more smoothly, and will help with this sort of
program in general.
A better way, later, would be to try elaborating and delay only if the
type is not yet known. We have the facilities, but it's too fiddly for
me to want to implement it right now...
We need to check below top level too, since there could be holes that
we're happy to resolve by searching. The linearity test added
illustrates a place where this is needed.
The namespace parser was not requiring a minimum indentation and instead
based its indentation on the following line, which meant that a line like:
namespace Foo
foodef : Int
placed foodef into namespace Foo instead of the module's top level.
And so made it unclear when a namespace ends.
Following a fairly detailed discussion on slack, the feeling is
generally that it's better to have a single interface. While precision
is nice, it doesn't appear to buy us anything here. If that turns out to
be wrong, or limiting somehow, we can revisit it later. Also:
- it's easier for backend authors if the type of IO operations is
slightly less restrictive. For example, if it's in HasIO, that limits
alternative implementations, which might be awkward for some
alternative back ends.
- it's one less extra detail to learn. This is minor, but there needs to
be a clear advantage if there's more detail to learn.
- It is difficult to think of an underlying type that can't have a Monad
instance (I have personally never encountered one - if they turns out
to exist, again, we can revisit!)
This addresses the case where you'd see an error of:
Ambiguous elaboration at:
r <- pure []
Possible correct results:
[]
[]
[]
By changing it to:
Possible correct results:
Main.Nil
PrimIO.Nil
Prelude.Nil
The output directory was previously called the executable directory, but I changed it because the output is not always an executable (depending on the code generator).
The code generators can now distinguish between where to place the (temporary) build files and the resulting output files.
unelabBinder was losing information for the purpose of displaying names
nicely. This is typically wanted but when working with elabortation it's
useful to have all the information you can get. Things like record field
names would be lost when querying with GetType but are now retained.
