A user seemed to experience a weird golang issue when they had deps from
both package managers installed. I won't block or fail their install,
but we can print a warning message so that someone sees it in their
logs.
Since this was an early form of the modern data struct, remove those and
pass in the correct data. This is also important in case we have
something more complex inside our string interpolation!
We hit a weird bug where dirs would not get copied properly. I thought
the solution might be to add the missing dirs so they'd get a proper
mkdir, but in the end that didn't work well, so we just use `mkdirall`
and that seems to work. Let's leave it like this for now. Some of the
previous work for that is in the previous commit.
This adds a readfile function to actually access files from our deploy.
A fun side effect is that we can even access our own code! In general,
it's a good reminder that you should only run trusted code on your own
infrastructure. This also includes a fancy new test case.
This should give us options as to how a function should interact with an
FS. I feel like it's cleaner to go through the World API, and passing in
the FsURI lets us do that, but I passed in the Fs at the same time in
case it's useful for some reason. I think using it is a boundary
violation, but it's just a hunch. Does anything break when we move from
one deploy to the next?
We weren't calling Init on some functions which should have had this
done. I'm not sure whether this is the right place, or if it should be
elsewhere as part of the scope building process. Good enough for now.
Sometimes certain internal functions might want to get some data from
the AST or from something relating to the state of the language. This
adds a method to pass in that data. For now it's a very simple method,
but we could generalize it in the future if it becomes more useful.
It seems when we had a files/ dir that we added to our deploy, it would
get copied into /files/files/whatever instead of /files/whatever where
it should be. Hopefully this works around the issue forever.
This adds a giant missing piece of the language: proper function values!
It is lovely to now understand why early programming language designers
didn't implement these, but a joy to now reap the benefits of them. In
adding these, many other changes had to be made to get them to "fit"
correctly. This improved the code and fixed a number of bugs.
Unfortunately this touched many areas of the code, and since I was
learning how to do all of this for the first time, I've squashed most of
my work into a single commit. Some more information:
* This adds over 70 new tests to verify the new functionality.
* Functions, global variables, and classes can all be implemented
natively in mcl and built into core packages.
* A new compiler step called "Ordering" was added. It is called by the
SetScope step, and determines statement ordering and shadowing
precedence formally. It helped remove at least one bug and provided the
additional analysis required to properly capture variables when
implementing function generators and closures.
* The type unification code was improved to handle the new cases.
* Light copying of Node's allowed our function graphs to be more optimal
and share common vertices and edges. For example, if two different
closures capture a variable $x, they'll both use the same copy when
running the function, since the compiler can prove if they're identical.
* Some areas still need improvements, but this is ready for mainstream
testing and use!
Hopefully our type unification algorithm will be sufficiently good that
you never need to actually specify the function type, but it's useful
for testing and completeness.
If a test failed in stage 2 (fail2) instead of an expected fail in stage
3 (fail3) then it would continue running, which was an undefined
behaviour in our API. IOW we should not run Unify if SetScope failed.
This patch adds these additional checks to ensure our tests are more
robust.
This improves the ComplexCmp function so that it can compare partial
types to variant types. As a result of this improvement, it actually
ended up simplifying the code significantly. This also added a test
suite for this function. This fix was important for tricky type
unification problems.
This lets you specify which args are being used in the general function
API, which can make code readability and debugability slightly better.
In an ideal world, we wouldn't need this at all, but I can't figure out
how to avoid it at the moment, so we'll include it for now, as it's
always easy to delete if we find a more elegant solution.
We were using the default argnames when the actual list of names was
available. Use these instead, and validate that we have the correct
number of them.
If you want to know which test to run, it's not always obvious, so by
adding the -short flag, we'll get a listing that we can use! You'll need
to add -v as well so that the output actually displays.
