This adds a modern type unification algorithm, which drastically
improves performance, particularly for bigger programs.
This required a change to the AST to add TypeCheck methods (for Stmt)
and Infer/Check methods (for Expr). This also changed how the functions
express their invariants, and as a result this was changed as well.
This greatly improves the way we express these invariants, and as a
result it makes adding new polymorphic functions significantly easier.
This also makes error output for the user a lot better in pretty much
all scenarios.
The one downside of this patch is that a good chunk of it is merged in
this giant single commit since it was hard to do it step-wise. That's
not the end of the world.
This couldn't be done without the guidance of Sam who helped me in
explaining, debugging, and writing all the sneaky algorithmic parts and
much more. Thanks again Sam!
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
This adds ExprTopLevel and ExprSingleton and ensures that ExprBind is
now monomorphic.
This corrects a previous design bug where it was not monomorphic and
would thus cause spawning of many more copies than necessary. In most
cases this was only harmful to memory and performance, and not
behaviour, since these functions were pure, and we didn't have a test
for this.
This also adds a bunch more tests. Most notably, the graph shape tests
generally produce smaller graphs now.
Lastly, a lambda cannot have two different types when used at two
different call sites. It is rare that this would be used, and when it
would make sense, there are easy workarounds to accomplish equivalent
goals.
This was mostly authored by Sam, James helped with some cleanup and
debugging.
Co-authored-by: James Shubin <james@shubin.ca>
