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Author SHA1 Message Date
James Shubin
5d664855de lang: interfaces, funcs: Implement fmt.Stringer for functions
This adds the requirement that all function implementations provider a
String() string method so that these can be used as vertices in the
pgraph library. If we eventually move to generics for the pgraph DAG,
then this might not matter, but it's not bad that these have names
either.
2023-03-03 14:12:09 -05:00
James Shubin
3cea422365 legal: Happy 2022 everyone...
Done with:

ack '2021+' -l | xargs sed -i -e 's/2021+/2022+/g'

Checked manually with:

git add -p

Hello to future James from 2023, and Happy Hacking!
2022-08-05 23:06:27 -04:00
James Shubin
95cfbd0fff lang: funcs: Ensure that Info sig's are invalid if not built yet
In case something in the type unification tries to speculatively call
Info before it's ready to produce a valid sig, make sure we only return
a definitive answer (non-nil, and no variant types) once we've
conclusively finished defining the signature.
2021-05-23 20:03:10 -04:00
James Shubin
336a38081a legal: Happy 2021 everyone...
Done with:

ack '2020+' -l | xargs sed -i -e 's/2020+/2021+/g'

Checked manually with:

git add -p

Hello to future James from 2022, and Happy Hacking!
2021-01-31 16:52:46 -05:00
James Shubin
2648fb1bb1 legal: Happy 2020 everyone...
Done with:

ack '2019+' -l | xargs sed -i -e 's/2019+/2020+/g'

Checked manually with:

git add -p

Hello to future James from 2021, and Happy Hacking!
2020-01-03 20:08:37 -05:00
James Shubin
f53376cea1 lang: Add function values and lambdas
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!
2019-07-17 00:27:09 -04:00