This has AirAggregate preempt Expr parsing in the same way as templates,
rather than having `AirTplAggregate` concern itself with expression
tokens. This continues to simplify `AirTplAggregate`, which was getting
quite complex not too long ago.
A pattern is now emerging for the call/ret convention for preemption. That
was intentional, but it's nice to see it manifest so obviously before I
abstract it away.
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This was extracted from xir::parse::ele in previous commits. The
conventions help to ensure that pushing and returns are being performed
correctly. The abstraction will continue to evolve.
This ends up using `Ready` as the dead state. I need to determine if this
is ideal, and if so, maybe just use `Default`, otherwise yield an error.
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The use of ArrayVec doesn't buy us anything anymore. There is no difference
in performance through my own benchmarking (at least on our systems), and
the game has changed since this was written: the size of the states is much
smaller since we're no longer aggregating attributes. Further, the use of
ArrayVec during development was also to keep memory allocation away from
various parts of the code, which simplified analysis of the binary that was
produced. Maybe it also reduced memory contention, but clearly that has no
observable impact.
The use of `Vec` removes the arbitrary bound, though I still kept one around
just in case something goes wrong, so TAMER will terminate. Even though the
token stream is bounded in size, lookahead does create recursion, and the
system cannot (as written) prove that it doesn't.
This is preparing for extracting `StateStack` into `parse` for use with
`AirAggregate`.
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`AirAggregate` now handles all delegation to `AirExprAggregate`. This is
possible because `AirAggregate` is now the superstate for each of these
parsers, so `AirTplAggregate` is able to transition to a state that is not
its own.
This does not go so far as reaching the ultimate objective---having nested
template support---even though it'd be fairly simple to do now; there's
going to be a number of interesting consequences to these changes, and a bit
of cleanup is still needed, and I want tests observing this functionality to
accompany those changes. That is: let's keep this a refactoring, to the
extent that it's possible.
Things are getting much easier to understand now, and much cleaner.
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What hell have I gotten myself into.
In the end, this wasn't too bad, but the initial batch of errors was really
demotivating; the diff does this no justice. `Lookahead::into_super` was
created to help tame those errors.
...now I can move forward. Imagine my disappointment when I ran into this
when expecting from previous work that superstates would now work properly
for the AirAggregate parsers.
(The reason this was needed is because AirAggregate splits tokens into
subtypes for child parsers.)
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Oh, boy, I had forgotten about this, until I started working on some
SuperState stuff and discovered this again due to a compiler error. Don't
want to fix something that isn't used.
But this does not bring back great memories. It's unfortunate that it
didn't work out; I'm pretty sure this was part of ~1mo of wasted effort
going down a path that I ultimately had to abort. Not good times. I'm
still behind from it.
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I love deleting code I just wrote...
This doesn't solve the underlying problems with identifiers, but it does at
least lift it into the `AirAggregateCtx`, allowing `AirExprAggregate` to be
even further simplified. Now the `From` implementation is not specialized
and we can readily convert to a SuperState.
There's still a lot of TODOs here, though. And some of them will
unfortunately require runtime checks where there was previously a
compile-time check. But that's okay in a lot of the cases, because the
empty behavior will replace existing error checks.
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Whether or not dangling expressions are permitted is now based solely off of
the stack context, which is also much more intuitive.
`RootStrategy` now only does one thing, and the existing comments describe
why it exists despite that one thing seeming very similar.
`RootStrategy` further alludes to how `ExprStack` could also be
eliminated, should it be worth doing so. It is a tad redundant now with the
new stack.
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This does the same thing to `AirExprAggregate` that was previously done for
`AirAggregate`, taking all parent context from the stack.
This results in a fairly significant simplification of the code, which is
nice, and it makes the `RootStrategy` obviously obsolete in the dangling
case, which will result in more refactoring to simplify it even more.
I regret not taking this route to begin with, but not only was I hoping I
wouldn't need to, but I was still deriving the graph structure and wasn't
sure how this would eventually turn out. These commits serve as a proof of
necessity. Or, at least, concrete rationale.
It's worth noting that this also introduces `From` implementations for
`AirAggregate` and the child parsers, and then uses _that_ to push context
from the `AirTplAggregate` parser. This means that we're just about ready
for it to serve as a superstate. But there is still a specialization of
`AirExprAggregate` in that `From` impl, which must be removed.
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This is more of the same of the previous commit, but in a more digestable
chunk. We now have child states that are able to be constructed using a
simple `From`, which is important to making `AirAggregate` a `SuperState`.
This also makes `AirStack` act like a prototype chain for `ObjectIndex`es,
creating environments where context shadows. The linear search should only
have to check the last two frames (e.g. an Expr has a parent Pkg or Tpl
context which will have a `rooting_oi` value), and this is only done during
a rooting operation.
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This begins to introduce `AirStack` and starts to migrate context away from
the individual `ParseState`s onto the stack.
I should have started to commit earlier; this is getting a bit large and
makes it hard to follow what I'm doing so, hopefully stopping a little bit
short will allow the following commit to show that.
This is a work-in-progress change. All tests pass, but the refactoring is
incomplete. The `AirStack` abstraction is _also_ incomplete and will have
better, more domain-specific operations that make it harder to mess up
pairing pushes with pops.
The purpose of doing this is to allow `AirAggregate` to serve exclusively as
a sum state, which can then become a SuperState, much like `ele_parse!`'s
approach.
The _end_ goal of all of this is arbitrary template nesting.
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The graph's ontology is defined in the direction of the edge: from OA
to OB. This is enforced by the type system to ensure that no code path is
able to generate an invalid graph.
But that also makes it very difficult to work with a generic source to a
specific target.
This introduces a `ObjectIndexRelTo` trait that says whether `Self` is able
to be related to some `ObjectKind` `OB`, implements it for `ObjectIndex
where ObjectRelTo<OB>`, and introduces a new semi-opaque type
`ObjectIndexTo` that allows for the source `ObjectIndex` to be generic.
This then redefines some existing graph primitives in terms of
`ObjectIndexRelTo`, in particular creating edges, so that `ObjectIndex` can
be used as today, and the new `ObjectIndexTo` can be used in the same way
with the same API, without violating the graph ontology.
This will be used by `AirAggregate` to create dynamic targets for rooting
and splicing/expansion.
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To simplify things in support of upcoming changes, we'll just instantiate a
new one as needed. This doesn't have an appreciable performance impact, so
the optimization is premature. It was done just because it was more of the
same that TAMER was already doing, but now it's making things more
difficult.
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Future changes to `AirAggregate` are going to require additional context (a
stack, specifically), but the `Context` is currently utilized
by `Asg`. This introduces a layer of abstraction that will allow us to add
the stack.
Alongside these changes, `ParseState` has been augmented with a `PubContext`
type that is utilized on public APIs, both maintaining BC with existing code
and keeping these implementation details encapsulated.
This does make a bit of a mess of the internal implementation, though, with
`asg_mut()` sprinkled about, so maybe the next commit can clean that up a
bit. EDIT: After adding `AsMut` to a bunch of asg::graph::object::*
methods, I decided against it, because it messes with the inferred
ownership, requiring explicit borrows via `as_mut()` where they were not
required before. I think the existing code is easier to reason about than
what would otherwise result from having `mut asg: impl AsMut<Asg>`
everwhere.
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Previously, `AirTplAggregate` worked only in a `Pkg` context, being able to
root `Tpl` `Ident`s in `Pkg` and expand only into `Pkg`. This still does
the same, but generalizes to allow for different roots and expansion
targets.
This will be utilized to parse nested templates.
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I'm happy with how this ended up turning out---I was able to accomplish this
without having to introduce any additional state to the parser (I _removed_
a state, actually) by tweaking NIR a bit in a previous commit.
We can't update the system test yet, though, because nested templates are
not yet supported by asg::air::tpl; that'll come next. If you try, you'll
be greeted with this error presently (which is worth showing since you'll
never see it unless you're hacking TAMER):
,=====[ ./tests/xmli/template/ logs ]======
|
| thread 'main' panicked at 'not yet implemented: internal error:
| note: nested tpl open
| --> ./tests/xmli/template/src.xml:129:5
| |
| 129 | <t:inner-short />
| | -------------- note: for this template
|
|
| !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!
| !!! THIS IS AN UNFINISHED FEATURE IN TAMER !!!
| !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!
| !!! This message means that TAMER has encountered an !!!
| !!! unrecoverable error that forced it to terminate !!!
| !!! processing. !!!
| !!! !!!
| !!! TAMER has attempted to provide you with contextual !!!
| !!! information above that might allow you to work around !!!
| !!! this problem until it can be fixed. !!!
| !!! !!!
| !!! Please report this error, including the above !!!
| !!! diagnostic output beginning with 'internal error:'. !!!
| !!! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ !!!
| ', src/asg/air/tpl.rs:207:55
| note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
| Command exited with non-zero status 101
| 0/165fault 0/8io 3528rss 14/2ctx
| /home/[...]/tame/tamer/target/debug/tamec -o ./tests/xmli/template/out.xmli --emit xmlo ./tests/xmli/template/src.xml
|
`====[ end ./tests/xmli/template/ logs ]====
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This is a long-overdue change to make this easier to read, but I'm _still_
holding off on refactoring, since there's still a lot of room for different
patterns to form with all of NIR that is left.
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This adds explicit variants for shorthand template application. This is
less cryptic, and we'll be able to check for the close directly during
desugaring.
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This represents a significant departure from how the XSLT-based TAME handles
the `@values@` param, but it will end up having the same effect. It builds
upon prior work, utilizing the fact that referencing a template in TAMER
will expand it.
The problem is this: allowing trees in `Meta` would add yet another
container; we have `Pkg` and `Tpl` already. This was the same problem with
template application---I didn't want to add support for binding arguments
separately, and so re-used templates themselves, reaching the generalization
I just mentioned above.
`Meta` is intended to be a lexical metasyntatic variable. That keeps its
implementation quite simple. But if we start allowing trees, that gets
rather complicated really quickly, and starts to require much more complex
AIR parser state.
But we can accomplish the same behavior by desugaring into an existing
container---a template---and placing the body within it. Then, in the
future, we'll parse `param-copy` into a simple `Air::RefIdent`, which will
expand the closed template and produce the same result as it does today in
the XSLT-based system.
This leaves open issues of closure (variable binding) in complex scenarios,
such as in templates that introduce metavariables to be utilized by the
body. That's never a practice I liked, but we'll see how things evolve.
Further, this does not yet handle nested template applications.
But this saved me a ton of work. Desugaring is much simpler.
The question is going to be how the XSLT-based compiler responds to this for
large packages with thousands of template applications. I'll have to see
if it's worth the hit at that time, or if we should inline it when
generating the `xmli` file, producing the same `@values@` as
before. But as it stands at this moment, the output is _not_ compatible
with the current compiler, as it expects `@values@` to be a tree, so a
modification would have to be made there.
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This applies to template application only; there's still some work to do for
template parameters in definitions (well, for deriving them in `xmli` at
least). And, as you can see, there's still a lot of TODO items here.
I ended up backtracking on tree edges to Meta, and even on cross edges to
Meta, because it complicated xmli derivation with no benefit right now;
maybe a cross edge will be re-added in the future, but I need to move on and
see where this takes me.
But, it works.
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I'm not happy with this implementation. The linear search is undesirable,
but not too bad (and maybe wouldn't even be worth caching, if this were the
whole story), but we _also_ need to prevent duplicate identifiers. We are
not going to want to perform a linear search of a linked list (effectively)
every time we add an identifier to check for uniqueness, so I think the
caching is going to have to be generalized very shortly anyway.
As it stands now, a duplicate identifier would cause an error at expansion
time. That's not what we want, but it's not terrible, because you can have
that same problem in normal circumstances without local conflicts.
But this'll be used for metavariables as well, where we absolutely _do_ want
to fail at template definition time.
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Identifier lookups, as done using the graph methods today, look up from a
cache representing the global environment.
Templates must not contribute to this environment until expansion. Further,
metavariables will not be present in this environment. To avoid confusion
and help obviate accidental contributions to this environment, the methods
have been renamed. This will also allow for the creation of more general
methods down the line.
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This makes the tests quite a bit easier to understand visually. I've been
doing this with all new tests but had to go back to some old ones, and still
have more to go back to. Baby steps.
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I had intended for this to be a full vertical slice initially, but AIR's
parser is going to need enough work that it'll muddy this patch a bit too
much.
This keeps the desugaring simple, which is what I was hoping for.
The next step is to load it into the graph and emit regenerated longhand
sources.
I also don't like how the namespace prefix is just being ignored for
shorthand param desugaring. This is also the case in the XSLT-based
compiler, but this violates TAMER's principle that it should parse every bit
of information; nothing should be ignored. If something does not contribute
useful information, then it is not a useful construct and ought to be
rejected.
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This moves translation from NirToAir into TplShortDesugar, and changes the
output from AIR to NIR.
This is going to be much easier to reason about as a desugaring
operation (and indeed that's always how TAME has implemented it, in XSLT);
this keeps the complexity isolated.
Ideally, NirToAir wouldn't even accept tokens that it can't handle, but
that's going to take quite a bit more work and I don't have the time right
now. Instead, we'll fail at runtime with some hopefully-useful
information. It shouldn't actually happen in practice.
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This makes it more visually apparent, when looking directly at a node,
whether an edge could represent a tree edge.
Dynamic edges could be tree edges, so I left those solid; that's the more
important visual indicator that I'm interested in, and it's disambiguated by
the dashed line.
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Previous to this commit, ontological cross edges were declared
statically. But this doesn't fare well with the decided implementation for
template application.
The documentation details it, but we have Tpl->Ident which could mean "I
define this Ident once expanded", or it could mean "this is a reference to a
template I will be applying". The former is a tree edge, the latter is a
cross edge, and that determination can only be made by inspecting edge data
at runtime.
It could have been resolved by introducing new Object types, but that is a
lot of work for little benefit, especially given that only (right now) the
visitor uses this information.
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This this a big change that's difficult to break up, and I don't have the
energy after it.
This introduces nullary template application, short- and long-form. Note
that a body of the short form is a `@values@` argument, so that's not
supported yet.
This continues to formalize the idea of what "template application" and
"template expansion" mean in TAMER. It makes a separate `TplApply`
unnecessary, because now application is simply a reference to a
template. Expansion and application are one and the same: when a template
expands, it'll re-bind metavariables to the parent context. So in a
template context, this amounts to application.
But applying a closed template will have nothing to bind, and so is
equivalent to expansion. And since `Meta` objects are not valid outside of
a `Tpl` context, applying a non-closed template outside of another template
will be invalid.
So we get all of this with a single primitive (getting the "value" of a
template).
The expansion is conceptually like `,@` in Lisp, where we're splicing trees.
It's a mess in some spots, but I want to get this committed before I do a
little bit of cleanup.
This was missing `@FEATURES@`, which was causing more compilation than
necessary, but also causing clippy to evaluate different code.
This also adds RUSTFLAGS, for the same reason of not wanting to recompile.
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This chooses Option B, as stated would likely be the case in the previous
commit. The reasons are practical---I intend to support partial application
if doing so is worth it, either in implementation of the compiler or the
source language.
Closed templates can be referenced using `IdentRef` to trigger
expansion---their value is what they expand into, and they are spliced into
that point in the tree, like `,@` in Lisp. We are able to overload this
behavior because we have the necessary type information.
However, I don't want to have to generate an Ident for every single template
expansion; there are many tens of thousands of them in our production
system. Since AIR doesn't presently have a way to deal with this situation,
I'll for now add a special token that will close and expand a template in
place; it can be replaced with two separate tokens (`TplEnd` + `Ref`, for
example) in the future if such a need arises.
Are we there yet...?
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Also known as metavariables or template parameters.
This is a bit of a tortured excursion, trying to figure out how I want to
best represent this. I have a number of pages of hand-written notes that
I'd like to distill over time, but the rendered graph ontology (via
`asg-ontviz`) demonstrates the broad idea.
`AirTpl::TplApply` highlights some remaining questions. What I had _wanted_
to do is to separate the concepts of application and expansion, and support
partial application and such. But it's going to be too much work for now,
when it isn't needed---partial application can be worked around by simply
creating new templates and duplicating params, as we do today, although that
sucks and is a maintenance issue. But I'd rather address that head-on in
the future.
So it's looking like Option B is going to be the approach for now, with
templates being closed (as in, no free metavariables) and expanded at the
same time. This simplifies the parser and error conditions significantly
and makes it easier to utilize anonymous templates, since it'll still be the
active context.
My intent is to get at least the graph construction sorted out---not the
actual expansion and binding yet---enough that I can use templates to
represent parts of NIR that do not have proper graph representations or
desugaring yet, so that I can spit them back out again in the `xmli` file
and incrementally handle them. That was an option I had considered some
months ago, but didn't want to entertain it at the time because I wasn't
sure what doing so would look like; while it was an attractive approach
since it pushes existing primitives into the template system (something I've
wanted to do for years), I didn't want to potentially tank performance or
compromise the design for it after I had spent so much effort on all of this
so far.
But my efforts have yielded a system that significantly exceeds my initial
performance expectations, with a decent abstractions, and so this seems
viable.
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See the Air docblock for more information. I'm introducing new tokens for
the template system, which uses the terms "free" and "closed". I prefer
open/close for delimiters, as I've expressed elsewhere, but unfortunately it
conflicts too much (and too confusingly) with other standard terminology as
we get more into the formal side of the language.
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This removes special cases, but it does complicate the parent `AirAggregate`
parser. A pattern of delegation is forming, though abstracting it may be an
interesting challenge, given Rust's limitation on macro invocations as match
arms. But, I think I can manage by generating the entire match using a
macro with a match-compatible syntax, augmenting where
needed...maybe. This'll be messy.
...but if I can write the nightmare that is `ele_parse!`, I'm sure I can
manage this. I just prefer to avoid complex macros unless I really need
them.
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Now that these are actually intended to be used as part of the build, this
is a more appropriate location. I originally wrote it as a manual tool.
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This parses the declarative `object_rel!` definitions from the Rust sources
and produces a DOT representation of the ontology of the graph, which can
then be rendered using Graphviz.
This does not yet introduce it into the build; it ought to be run as part of
`make check` (without rendering with Graphviz) to ensure that we catch
breaking changes, and `make html` ought to integrate it into the
documentation, perhaps as part of `asg::graph` or `asg::graph::object`.
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Small break from templates for something easier. I have COVID-19, so I'll
use that as my excuse for wanting to be more lazy.
The real reason is to see some more concrete progress and ensure that
patterns hold for simple expressions before further refactoring.
But, before I proceed with such refactoring, I really ought to approach
something that requires a NIR desugaring step, like case statements.
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Going higher than that doesn't make sense because we're in shell and
invoking commands all around this, so even milliseconds isn't going to be
entirely accurate here. However, what I am more interested in is observing
time relative to other runs; this isn't intended for profiling, but for
eyeballing unexpected behavior.
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There's a lot to look at, especially in the event of failure. Further, I
wanted to add additional statistics that could be eyeballed.
Right now, tamec is too fast (at least on my machine) for the precision of
/usr/bin/time: we need milliseconds, but we only get hundredths of a
second. So it'll all show as 0:00.00s. Which is okay, for now; it just
shouldn't exceed that. ;)
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Mike Gerwitz