We should really be doing the math to find out how far along the string
each token really is, but that's complicated and tedious, especially
with the simplification passes, so let's skip that for now and just show
the whole thing.
This ports things to the new textarea. We need to plumb through things a
lot more, especially the string interpolation math to get the right
offsets everywhere, but that's coming.
This adds an initial implementation of printing line numbers on type
unification errors. It also attempts to print a visual position
indicator for most scenarios.
This patch was started by Felix Frank and finished by James Shubin.
Co-authored-by: Felix Frank <Felix.Frank.de@gmail.com>
Instead of constantly making these updates, let's just remove the year
since things are stored in git anyways, and this is not an actual modern
legal risk anymore.
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>
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.
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.
