With the recent merging of embedded package imports and the entry CLI
package, it is now possible for users to build in mcl code into a single
binary. This additional permission makes it explicitly clear that this
is permitted to make it easier for those users. The condition is phrased
so that the terms can be "patched" by the original author if it's
necessary for the project. For example, if the name of the language
(mcl) changes, has a differently named new version, someone finds a
phrasing improvement or a legal loophole, or for some other
reasonable circumstance. Now go write some beautiful embedded tools!
This adds a concat function which can be used directly by string
interpolation to avoid having to constantly unify the plus operator
which is much slower at this time.
The new monomorphisms changes caused type unification of a notable
example to go from ~25s to ~5m30s which was obviously not bearable. With
this fix, things are now down to ~6s.
This is an important optimization, but it's also a good reminder that
type unification of polymorphic functions needs to be improved in
general too.
Since this special one_instance function uses global state, if it's
re-used in more than one test, this won't work since they still all use
the whole global state. Make new ones for each test.
This also breaks the count=2 feature (any number other than 1) when
running these, which is not ideal. Create a cleanup API that we can run
between tests to reset the global state.
We should not call either of these functions more than once for their
values. If we do, it means we have made a mistake with a compiler
optimization.
This is important, because otherwise if you had code like:
$x = random_password()
Then this would obviously be a problem. Thankfully, the situations where
functions generate unique data is rare, but it's probably something we
should take care of.
This adds a new series of "get*" functions which can read values from
the associated "value" resources. The key name of the function must
match the name value of the resource for things to work.
Type unification isn't yet perfect in these scenarios, so you should use
casually and with caution.
This is a new API that is similar in spirit and plumbing to the World
API, but it intended for all local machine operations and will likely
only ever have one implementation.
This modifies the panic feature to accept a boolean or a string. If true
or not empty, then it will cause the panic. This makes some of the error
code a little less ugly.
This is a newer implementation of the panic magic. I kept the old commit
in for posterity and to show the difference. The two versions are
identical to the end-user with one exception: the newer version doesn't
include a useless panic resource in the graph when there is no panic. In
this version, the panic function returns false and the if statement it's
the condition of, doesn't produce the resource within. On error, we
still consume the function in the if expression, and doing so causes
everything to shutdown.
The other benefit is that the implementation is much cleaner and doesn't
need the interpolate hack.
It's valuable to check your runtime values and to shut down the entire
engine in case something doesn't match. This patch adds some magic
plumbing to support a "panic" mechanism.
A new "panic" statement gets transparently converted into a panic
function and panic resource. The former errors if the input is not
empty. The latter must be present to consume the value, but doesn't
actually do anything.
Most of this logging isn't useful for ordinary usage. Hide it for now.
Eventually when we have a fancy logging system (curses-like) we can
bring back more information on the state of everything.
This adds an interesting version of the struct lookup function. In the
situation where we can't type-check the field name, it will use the
optional value passed in. This makes it easy to write a function that
will pull in the desired value, even as the input struct changes type
between compilations, without having to re-write your code.
It's structurally different from the other default lookup functions,
which is why it is named differently.
It's a normally named function for now, until we think of a common
package to move it into.
Hopefully this makes improving the lexer and parser easier for now. We
can consider bringing it back if needed.
This adds a new implementation of the function engine that runs the DAG
function graph. This version is notable in that it can run a graph that
changes shape over time. To make changes to the same of the graph, you
must use the new transaction (Txn) system. This system implements a
simple garbage collector (GC) for scheduled removal of nodes that the
transaction system "reverses" out of the graph.
Special thanks to Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com> for his help
hacking on and debugging so much of this concurrency work with me.
This returns the type with the arg names we'll actually use. This is
helpful so we can pass values to the right places. We have named edges
so you can actually see what's going on.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
This adds a new test functions package and also a new "fastcount"
function which counts up from zero as fast as is possible. You probably
don't want to use this in production, but it is useful for performance
and deadlock testing the resource and function engines.
