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6 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
James Shubin
e10e92596f lang: types: Add stringer information manually
This lets us get the more correct lowercase versions of type kinds in
error messages. (These match what the user would type.)
2024-07-01 18:35:20 -04:00
James Shubin
14577a0c46 lang: Add modern type unification implementation
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>
2024-07-01 18:33:47 -04:00
James Shubin
51cf1e2921 lang: ast: The res and edge names should not use exclusives
This removes the exclusive from the res names and edge names. We now
require that the names should be lists of strings, however they can
still be single strings if that can be determined statically.
Programmers should explicitly wrap their variables in a string by
interpolation to force this, or in square brackets to force a list. The
former is generally preferable because it generates a small function
graph since it doesn't need to build a list.
2024-04-18 00:07:53 -04:00
James Shubin
96093984e4 test, examples: lang: Add new syntax for map lookup
Sugar at last!
2023-10-17 15:32:13 -04:00
James Shubin
d1c15bd0b7 lang: funcs: Rename the lookup functions
This will make things more consistent with future use.
2023-10-17 15:21:18 -04:00
James Shubin
8d63b98212 lang: Add a bunch of new language tests
These test both graph shape consistency and single value outputs.
Eventually we want to make the graph shape tests more precise, and also
verify specific outputs how it used to be. For now, this is okay.

Co-authored-by: Samuel Gélineau <gelisam@gmail.com>
2023-09-25 18:50:43 -04:00