This implements a new type of syntactic sugar for the common pattern of
a base class which returns a child class, and so on. Instead of needing
to repeatedly indent the child classes, we can instead prefix them at
the definition site (where created with the class keyword) with the name
of the parent class, followed by a colon, to get the desired embedded
sugar.
For example, instead of writing:
class base() {
class inner() {
class deepest() {
}
}
}
You can instead write:
class base() {
}
class base:inner() {
}
class base:inner:deepest() {
}
Of course, you can only access any of the inner classes by first
including (with the include keyword) a parent class, and then
subsequently including the inner one.
This adds support for `include as <identifier>` type statements which in
addition to pulling in any defined resources, it also makes the contents
of the scope of the class available to the scope of the include
statement, but prefixed by the identifier specified.
This makes passing data between scopes much more powerful, and it also
allows classes to return useful classes for subsequent use.
This also improves the SetScope procedure and adds to the Ordering
stage. It's unclear if the current Ordering stage can handle all code,
or if there exist corner-cases which are valid code, but which would
produce a wrong or imprecise topological sort.
Some extraneous scoping bugs still exist, which expose certain variables
that we should not depend on in future code.
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>
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.
This lets us add a resource that has an implementation with a field
whose type is determined at compile time. This let's us write more
flexible resources.
What's missing is additional type checking so that we guarantee that a
specific resource doesn't change types during run-time.
This is a big giant patch that implements the AST part of lambdas!
I don't know how Sam is able to understand the AST so well, but he does,
and we're all grateful for it. Most of this code was written by him.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
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 plumbs through the new Output method signature that accepts a table
of function pointers to values and relies on the previous storing of the
function pointers to be used for the lookup right now. This has the
elegant side-effect that Output generation could run in parallel with
the graph engine, as the engine only needs to pause to take a snapshot
of the current values tables.
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
The Graph signature changes are needed for future function work, and it
also fits in nicely with the need for storing the value pointer for each
function node. These are used to later extract values during the Output
stage.
Sam deserves all of the credit for realizing both of these points and
convincing me to make the change! It worked out great, cheers!
Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
This adds a meta state store that is preserved between graph switches if
the kind and name match. This is useful so that rapid graph changes
don't necessarily reset their retry count if they've only changed one
resource field.
There were some bugs about setting resource fields that were structs
with various fields. This makes things more strict and correct. Now we
check for duplicate field names earlier (duplicates due to identical
aliases) and we also don't try and set private fields, or incorrectly
set partial structs.
Most interestingly, this also cleans up all of the resources and ensures
that each one has nicer docs and a clear struct tag for fields that we
want to use in mcl. These are mandatory now, and if you're missing the
tag, then we will ignore the field.
This doesn't let us have nested mcl at the moment, but we could improve
on this with an embed API for each package. For now this makes building
the project easier.
There were a bunch of packages that weren't well documented. With the
recent split up of the lang package, I figured it would be more helpful
for new contributors who want to learn the structure of the project.
This is a giant refactor to split the giant lang package into many
subpackages. The most difficult piece was figuring out how to extract
the extra ast structs into their own package, because they needed to
call two functions which also needed to import the ast.
The solution was to separate out those functions into their own
packages, and to pass them into the ast at the root when they're needed,
and to let the relevant ast portions call a handle.
This isn't terribly ugly because we already had a giant data struct
woven through the ast.
The bad part is rebasing any WIP work on top of this.
