I had never intended to avoid pinning nightly. This is an unfortunate thing
to have to do---require a _specific_ version of a compiler to build your
software; it's madness. But the unstable features utilized by TAMER (as
rationalized in `src/lib.rs`) are still worth the effort.
It's not _actually_ that case that we need a specific version of the
compiler, granted; this is outlined in `rust-toolchain.toml`'s
rationale. You should look there for more information; my approach still
utilizes explicit channels via cargo. Unfortunately, I had hard-coded it
previously, putting me in a bit of a bind an unable to override the behavior
without modifying the software.
The reason for this change is that `adt_const_params` has a BC break
involving the introduction of `ConstParamTy`. This is only the second time
I've been bitten by a nightly BC break; the other was the renaming of
`int_log`'s API, as mentioned in
709291b107. This pinning will in fact
mitigate those future issues---TAMER will be able to resolve the issue at
its leisure, and will further be able to continue to build earlier commits
in the future by simply re-bootstrapping with the committed nightly
version.
If you're curious of my rationale for wanting to inhibit toolchain
downloading during build, or use system libraries, have a look at GNU Guix's
approach to building software safely and reproducibly. In particular,
dependencies are also built from source (rather than downloading binaries
from external sources), and builds take place in network-isolated
containers. The `TAMER_RUST_TOOLCHAIN` configure parameter is meant to
facilitate these situations by giving more flexibility to packagers.
DEV-14476
The code utilizing this is flagged, and so the build would output warnings
saying that it was not used. This resolves that (I've been aware of it for
far too long; I'm developing behind the `wip-asg-derived-xmli` flag where I
don't usually see it).
DEV-13162
This generates some documentation helping to describe the lowering pipeline,
since the function type signature can be daunting to those unfamiliar with
it (and I'm sure to the future me too).
DEV-13162
Like the previous commit's removal of the error type, this eliminates the
explicit source token type since we're able to infer it from the pipeline
definition.
DEV-13162
It does not matter what the error of the source is as long as the caller is
able to deal with it, especially given that the particular error is a
property of the source, which is under control of the caller.
DEV-13162
The macro is off-putting and more complicated than the pipeline definitions
themselves (of course), so this tucks it away so that readers are able to
more easily observe the definitions that they're probably looking for
without feeling compelled to try to understand the macro definition.
DEV-13162
All lowering pipelines are now using `lower_pipeline!`. Finally.
The macro does require some refactoring and documentation, but it's working,
and we now have three pipelines whose definitions are smaller than a single
one was previously. I've been hoping to do this for many months, so it's
nice to finally see this come to fruition.
I had been putting it off, but doing so has made it difficult to compose
other parts of the system, not knowing what abstractions I'll have at my
disposal.
DEV-13162
This makes the sink similar to other pipelines without creating a new
ParseState, and so will allow for integrating into the `lower_pipeline!`
abstraction.
DEV-13162
This has been the ultimate goal for the pipeline for some time---the ability
to declaratively define the lowering pipeline in a way that is clear,
concise, and is correct by definition.
The reason that the lowering pipeline required so much boilerplate was
because of the robust types involved, which ensures that everything in the
pipeline is compatible with one-another---it's not possible to construct a
pipeline that will not work.
Of course, there is nuance involved in some cases---I didn't want to include
the `until` clause, which makes it fail the "obviously correct" criterion,
but that can be improved over time.
This only abstracts away `load_xmlo` and `parse_package_xml`; next I'll have
to evolve the abstraction to support lifetimes for `lower_xmli`'s
`AsgTreeToXirf`. That pipeline also ends with a custom sink that really
ought to become its own parser, but I don't want to jump down that rabbit
hole right now, so we may just support custom sinks for now with the intent
of removing it in the future.
This has been a long time coming. The ultimate goal is that you should be
able to look at the parser pipelines to have a clear, high-level overview of
how everything fits together. I'm not generating documentation yet, but
that'll help serve as a guide as well.
DEV-13162
The report acts as the sink for `load_xmlo` and `parse_package_xml`. At the
moment, the type is `()`, and so there's nothing to report on but the
error. But the idea is to add logging via `AirAggregate::Object`, which is
currently just `()`.
This change therefore is only a refactoring---it changes no functionality
but sets up for future changes.
This also introduces consistency with `lower_xmli` in use of `terminal` for
the final operation.
DEV-13162
Diagnostic events need not be errors. While that was the original intent,
it'd also be nice to be able to use the diagnostic system for any type of
logging, where the verbosity level would determine the type of report that
is output (whether source information should be provided).
Then we could have e.g. AirAggregate produce events describing what actions
are occurring, which could be much more useful than a trace in many
contexts, and would be able to operate via a runtime toggle/filter without
having an adverse effect on performance (since the diagnostic rendering
itself is the hit; the underlying data are cheap).
Anyway---I'm addressing this now to generalize the reporter in the lowering
pipeline, so that it can report on not just errors but anything.
DEV-13162
This formats the pipeline to mirror the style of
`parse_package_xml`. Based on the previous commits, the end goal (though
not necessarily now) will be to derive a concise abstraction for all the
lowering pipelines, which means first factoring them into a common form.
DEV-13162
This makes the API of `load_xmlo` much closer to `parse_package_xml`, both
accepting a reporter and distinguishing between recoverable and
unrecoverable errors.
The linker still does not use a reporter and still fails on the first
error, as before; I wanted to keep this change small.
DEV-13162
This allows us to drop `AirIdent::IdentRef`, which in turn allows dropping
`AirIdent` entirely from `AirPkgAggregate`.
This is also a more appropriate abstraction; having to track all the ways in
which `IdentRef` was used can be confusing. This means that `AirIdent` is
true to its name---used only for identifiers. The new token type makes it
very clear where package imports are recognized, and it's also easier to
search for.
DEV-13162
This is the same idea as the previous two commits: get all the lowering
pipelines into the same place so that we can observe commonalities and
attempt to derive an appropriate abstraction.
`lower_xmli` could have invoked `tree_reconstruction` itself, since it has
all the information that it needs to do so, but the idea is that these will
accept sources from the caller. This also demonstrates that sinks need to
be flexible. In an ideal abstraction, perhaps this would be able to produce
an iterator that accepts the first token type and yields the last, which can
then be directed to a sink, but that's not compatible with how the lowering
operations currently work, which requires a single value to be
returned. But if it did work that way, then they'd be able to compose just
as any other parser.
Maybe for the future.
DEV-13162
The previous commit extracted xmlo loading, because that will be a common
operation between `tamec` and `tameld`. This extracts parsing, which will
only used by `tamec` for now, though components of the pipeline are similar
to xmlo loading.
Not only does it need to be removed from `tamec` and better abstracted, but
the intent now is to get all of these things into one place so that the
patterns are obviated and a better abstraction can be created to remove all
of this boilerplate and type complexity.
Furthermore, xmlo loading needs to use reporting and recovery, so having
`parse_package_xml` here will help show how to make that happen easily. I'm
pleased that it ended up being trivial to extract error reporting from the
lowering pipeline as a simple (mutable) callback. I'm not pleased about
the side-effects, but, this works well for now given how the system works
today.
DEV-13162
I want to clean this up a bit further. The motivation is that we need this
for imports in `tamec`.
Eventually this will be cleaned up to the point where it's declarative and
easy to understand---there's a mess of types involved now and, when
something goes wrong, it can be brutally confusing.
DEV-13162
This extracts and decouples the boundary rules from the stack frames
themselves, which not only clarifies what the rules are (and makes them
match the scope diagrams), but paves the way for future isolation.
DEV-13162
This was used for metavariable declaration before scoping was sorted
out. That was just resolved, and so this is no longer needed (and is indeed
not desirable, since it side-steps the scope index and so will not be found
except by `lookup_local_linear`).
DEV-13162
The ASG had its output reduced previously but I had apparently stashed it; I
found it while trying to clean up after so many failed or partial attempts
and the various scoping changes.
The most fundamental issue is that there's too much information: it's very
difficult to interrogate so I seldom look at it, and it slows down Parser
trace output to the point where it's useless on even one of our smallest
systems, generating 1.5GiB of output for a graph of ~10k
objects (via tameld).
DEV-13162
The scope system works with the AIR stack frames, expecting all parent
environments to be on that stack. Since metavariables were (awkwardly) part
of the template parser, that didn't happen.
This change extracts metavariable parsing (with some remaining TODOs) into
its own parser, so that `AirTplAggregate` will be on the stack; then it's a
simple matter of using the existing `AirAggregateCtx` methods to define a
variable and index its shadow scope, which addresses TODOs in the existing
scope test cases.
This also involved separating the tokens from `AirTpl` into `AirMeta`; they
need to be renamed, which will happen in a following commit, since this is
large enough as it is.
Another change that had to be included here, which I wish I could have just
done separately if it wasn't too much work, was to permit overlapping
identifier shadows. Local variables have to cast a shadow so that we can
figure out if they would in turn shadow an identifier (which would be an
error), but they don't conflict with one-another if they don't have a
shared (visible) scope.
`AirAggregate` can be simplified even further, e.g. to eliminate the
expression stack and just use the ctx stack (which didn't previously exist),
but I need to continue; I'll return to it.
DEV-13162
That was being done automatically before this change, but the change that
I'm about to introduce for metavariables will require this distinction, at
the very least to emphasize the behavior of the indexing.
See the next commit for more information.
(The next commit has a bit too much going on, so I wanted to at least
attempt to separate things where it wasn't much work to do so.)
DEV-13162
The motivating factor here is some out of date or corrupted rustc cache,
however we really ought to be doing fresh builds for TAME; it doesn't add
enough time that it's worth sacrificing assurances.
This finally removes the awkward index from the ASG. This will need much
more documentation and a better organized abstraction, but in the meantime,
previous commit dive into some of the rationale.
In essence: it only really makes sense to have indexing on the ASG itself if
it is used to cache queries or other expensive operations. But that is not
what we were using it for---it was used for caching _lexical_ properties,
which are useful only during parsing for the sake of forming relationships
on the graph. Once those relationships have formed, different types of
indexes will be useful in different lowering, optimization, or querying
contexts.
This formalizes that, and in doing so, ensures that the index is will always
be accurate relative to the content of the ASG. Once the index becomes
separated from it---through the `AirAggregateCtx::finish` operation---then
it is discarded and the ASG exposed.
This is also important because the index is incomplete---it contains only
the information necessary for the parser to carry out its task.
This change was a long time coming, and has reduced ASG to its essence.
DEV-13162
A new AirAggregate parser is utilized for each package import. This
prevents us from moving the index from `Asg` onto `AirAggregateCtx` because
the index would be dropped between each import.
This allows re-using that context and solves for problems that result from
attempting to do so, as explained in the new
`resume_previous_parsing_context` test case.
But, it's now clear that there's a missing abstraction, and that reasoning
about this problem at the topmost level of the compiler/linker in terms of
internal parsing details like "context" is not appropriate. What we're
doing is suspending parsing and resuming it later on for another package,
aggregating into the same destination (ASG + index). An abstraction ought
to be formed in terms of that.
DEV-13162
This was the remaining of my stashed changes that I had mentioned in a
previous commit, but is accomplished differently than I had prototyped. My
initial approach was a bit too klugey: to accept as an argument in various
scope contexts the active parser, as if it were the top stack frame. This
was prototyped before the `AirPkgAggregate` parser was even created.
So we've since created a Pkg parser and now an opaque parser for opaque
idents. There may be other opaque objects in the future.
Because of this change, the parent `AirPkgAggregate` gets stored on the
stack and just naturally becomes part of the lexical scope determination,
and so everything Just Works!
This commit was _supposed_ to be moving the index from `Asg` onto
`AirAggregateCtx`, but I wasn't able to do that because that context is
re-created for each package import currently.
DEV-13162
As evidenced by this change, the tuple syntax was no longer serving us
well. But the real reason for this change is to prepare for the addition of
a fourth field: the index, taken from `Asg`.
DEV-13162
This change means that `asg::air` is now the only module that directly
invokes index-related methods on `Asg`. This clears the way, finally, to
removing the index from `Asg` entirely.
Not only does this result in a less awkward architecture, it also ensures
that lookups are forced to go through the system that understands and
controls lexical scoping, which will be able to give the correct answer.
Of course, the caveat is that the "correct" answer depends on what's
currently on the stack, depending on what type of lookup is being performed,
but those details are still encapsulated within the `asg::air` module and
its tests.
DEV-13162
This is the culmination of a great deal of work over the past few
weeks. Indeed, this change has been prototyped a number of different ways
and has lived in a stash of mine, in one form or another, for a few weeks.
This is not done just yet---I have to finish moving the index out of Asg,
and then clean up a little bit more---but this is a significant
simplification of the system. It was very difficult to reason about prior
approaches, and this finally moves toward doing something that I wasn't sure
if I'd be able to do successfully: formalize scope using AirAggregate's
stack and encapsulate indexing as something that is _supplemental_ to the
graph, rather than an integral component of it.
This _does not yet_ index the AirIdent operation on the package itself
because the active state is not part of the stack; that is one of the
remaining changes I still have stashed. It will be needed shortly for
package imports.
This rationale will have to appear in docs, which I intend to write soon,
but: this means that `Asg` contains _resolved_ data and itself has no
concept of scope. The state of the ASG immediately after parsing _can_ be
used to derive what the scope _must_ be (and indeed that's what
`asg::air::test::scope::derive_scopes_from_asg` does), but once we start
performing optimizations, that will no longer be true in all cases.
This means that lexical scope is a property of parsing, which, well, seems
kind of obvious from its name. But the awkwardness was that, if we consider
scope to be purely a parse-time thing---used only to construct the
relationships on the graph and then be discarded---then how do we query for
information on the graph? We'd have to walk the graph in search of an
identifier, which is slow.
But when do we need to do such a thing? For tests, it doesn't matter if
it's a little bit slow, and the graphs aren't all that large. And for
operations like template expansion and optimizations, if they need access to
a particular index, then we'll be sure to generate or provide the
appropriate one. If we need a central database of identifiers for tooling
in the future, we'll create one then. No general-purpose identifier lookup
_is_ actually needed.
And with that, `Asg::lookup_or_missing` is removed. It has been around
since the beginning of the ASG, when the linker was just a prototype, so
it's the end of TAMER's early era as I was trying to discover exactly what I
wanted the ASG to represent.
DEV-13162
This is in the same spirit as previous commits modifying (or removing)
tests and benchmarks related to accessing the ASG and its indexes directly.
With this change, only `asg::air` uses the indexing and lookup methods on
`Asg`. This will allow me to extract the index from `Asg` entirely and have
`Air` solely responsible for lookup; the graph will be responsible only for,
well, being a graph. Indexing is an optimization strategy.
More information in the commit to follow. But notice how this moving
environment-related concerns away from `Asg` and into AIR, and how the
remaining environment concerns are index-related.
But there is one remaining barrier: to fully move the indexing away from
`Asg`, we have to use an alternative (and complete)
abstraction---AirAggregateCtx with its ability to resolve and introduce
scope based on the stack. The `AirIdent` token subset doesn't yet do that,
and all the work up to this point was in prepartion for doing that. Since
introducing indexing at Root a few commits ago, it's now possible to
proceed.
DEV-13162
These benchmarks were useful as TAMER was in its infancy and I was trying to
gain an intuition for working with Rust. But they are now out of date, and
there are better ways to measure TAMER's performance, including running it
on real-world data (which wasn't possible previously) and through profiling
tools like Valgrind.
With that said, these types of benchmarks _would_ be useful for helping to
dig down into improvements that could be made, at a glance. The problem is,
they aren't testing anything new, and they're also testing something I'm
about to extract from `Asg`. It is not worth the ongoing maintenance cost.
So benchmarks may be reintroduced in the future if they are found to be
valuable.
DEV-13162
The previous commit introduced a duplicate `asg_from_toks`; this just makes
it available publicly for any tests that might utilize AIR to lower the
barrier to writing such tests and provide some guidance in doing so.
DEV-13162
This uses AIR---the ASG's proper public interface now---to construct the
graph for tests, just as all the other modern tests do. This is change
works towards encapsulating index operations (both creation and lookups) so
that the index can be moved off of Asg and into AIR, where it belongs. More
information on that and rationale to come.
DEV-13162
This, finally, introduces identifier pooling in the global environment,
represented by `Root`. All package-level identifiers will be scoped as
such, which at the moment means anything that's not within a template.
As mentioned in recent commits, this does require additional cleanup to
finalize, and some more test will make additional rationale more clear.
It's also worth noting the intent of storing the `ObjectIndex<Root>`---not
only does it mean that the active root can be derived solely from the
current parsing state, but it also means that in the future we can
contribute to any, potentially multiple, roots. I had previously used Neo4J
to effectively diff two dependency graphs between versions in the current
XSLT-based TAMER; I'd like to be able to do that with TAMER in the future,
which is an important concept when considering automated data migration, as
well as querying for the effects of changes.
More to come. I'm hoping this is finally nearing a conclusion and I can
finally tie everything together with package imports. `AirIdent` will be
introduced into the mix soon now too, now that this commit is able to root
them.
DEV-13162
Okay, this is finally distilling into something fairly simple and
reasonable, but I'm not quite there yet.
In particular, the responsibility is simply between `Asg` (as the owner of
the index) and `AirAggregateCtx` (as the owner of the stack frames from
which environments and scope are derived). This was inevitable and I was
waiting for it, but now I have a good idea of how to clean it up and
proceed.
This also doesn't index in root yet (`active_rooting_oi` is still `None` for
`Root`), and I think I may remove `Pool` and just make it `Visible` at that
point, since it won't be going any further anyway. I don't think the
distinction is meaningful and will just complicate implementations.
The tests also need some more cleanup---the assertions ideally would live in
independent tests, and the assertion failure is in a function call rather
than the test (function) itself, so requires a Rust backtrace to locate the
line number of (unless you look at the failure data).
So I suppose this is more of a mental synchronization point than
anything. Nothing's broken, though.
DEV-13162
There's a lot of documentation on this in the commit itself, but this stems
from
a) frustration with trying to understand how the system needs to operate
with all of the objects involved; and
b) recognizing that if I'm having difficulty, then others reading the
system later on (including myself) and possibly looking to improve upon
it are going to have a whole lot of trouble.
Identifier scope is something I've been mulling over for years, and more
formally for the past couple of months. This finally begins to formalize
that, out of frustration with package imports. But it will be a weight
lifted off of me as well, with issues of scope always looming.
This demonstrates a declarative means of testing for scope by scanning the
entire graph in tests to determine where an identifier has been
scoped. Since no such scoping has been implemented yet, the tests
demonstrate how they will look, but otherwise just test for current
behavior. There is more existing behavior to check, and further there will
be _references_ to check, as they'll also leave a trail of scope indexing
behind as part of the resolution process.
See the documentation introduced by this commit for more information on
that part of this commit.
Introducing the graph scanning, with the ASG's static assurances, required
more lowering of dynamic types into the static types required by the
API. This was itself a confusing challenge that, while not all that bad in
retrospect, was something that I initially had some trouble with. The
documentation includes clarifying remarks that hopefully make it all
understandable.
DEV-13162
This begins demonstrating that the root will be utilized for identifier
lookup and indexing, as it was originally for TAME and is currently for the
linker.
This was _not_ the original plan---the plan was to have identifiers indexed
only at the package level, at least until we need a global lookup for
something else---but that plan was upended by how externs are currently
handled. So, for now, we need a global scope.
(Externs are resolved by the linker in such a way that _any_ package that
happens to be imported transitively may resolve the import. This is a
global environment, which I had hoped to get rid of, and which will need to
eventually go away (possibly along with externs) to support loading multiple
programs into the graph simultaneously for cross-program analysis.)
This commit renames the base state for `AirAggregate` to emphasize the fact,
especially when observing it in the `AirStack`, and changes
`AirAggregateCtx::lookup_lexical_or_missing` to resolve from the _bottom_ of
the stack upward, rather than reverse, to prove that the system still
operates correctly with this change in place.
The reason for this direction change is to simplify lookup in the most
general case of non-local identifiers, which are almost all of them in
practice---they'll be immediately resolved at the root once they're
indexed. This can be done because I determined that I will _not_ support
shadowing; rationale for that will come later, but TAME is intended to be a
language suitable for non-programmer audiences as well. Note that
identifiers will be resolved lexically within templates in TAMER, unlike
TAME, which means that the expansion context will _not_ be considered when
checking for shadowing, so templates will still be able to compose without a
problem so long as they do not shadow in their definition context. (I'll
have to consider how that affects template-generating templates later on,
but that's an ambiguous construction in TAME today anyway.)
This _does not_ yet index anything at the root where it wasn't already being
indexed explicitly.
DEV-13162
This requires the name as part of the package definition, which in turn
removes a state (and all the combinations resulting from it) from
AirAggregate, which results in significant complexity reduction for a very
complex part of the system.
Pushing this complexity outward results in a reduction of overall
complexity, and obviates the question of where NIR will receive a generated
name.
DEV-13162
The comment speaks for itself.
My concern is that this will be especially off-putting to people looking at
TAMER and wondering how one could possibly work with this system.
DEV-13162
This is something I've wanted to do for some time, but the system is
becoming hard enough to reason about (with some attempted future changes)
that I require the consistency afforded by this change.
It's not entirely done---as noted by the TODO for `UnnamedPkg`---but it's
close, and then `AirAggregate` will just be a delegating superstate, like
`ele_parse!`.
Importantly, this also puts a package parser on the stack, which will work
better with the stack-based scoping system being developed. It will also
make it easier to fall back to a base case that I had really wanted to
avoid, and will have more information on in the future: root indexing for a
shared global environment for package-level identifiers. (Imports are still
package-scoped, but only in appearance, by contributing to the global
environment of the compilation unit during import. Well, it doesn't do that
yet. The XSLT compiler works in that way.)
DEV-13162
This is one of many changes that have been lingering that I need to start to
break apart in an attempt to commit the confusing and disappointing
conclusion to this package loading madness.
More information to come.
DEV-13162
I had apparently forgotten about this, because I didn't benefit from the
exhaustiveness check; this needs to be eliminated so that this doesn't
happen again, and to provide a proper non-panicking error.
DEV-13162
This reverts commit da7fe96254e425bc7b75f8cf454465b71e27e372.
I'm a fool---this would be pursuant to a future plan that removes AirIdent
opaque tokens. But for now, I need it on IdentDecl and others, which
currently has a `Source` (that I want to go away, as just mentioned), which
contains the same information.
So maybe more to come on this...
DEV-13162
This allows for a canonical package name to be optionally provided to
explicitly resolve a reference against, avoiding a lexical lookup.
This change doesn't actually utilize this new value yet; it just
retains BC. The new argument will be used for the linker, since it already
knows the package that defined an identifier while reading the object file's
symbol table. It will also be used by tamec for the same purposes while
processing package imports.
DEV-13162
-- squashed with --
tamer: asg::air::ir::RefIdent: CanonicalName=SPair
The use of CanonicalName created an asymmetry between RefIdent and
BindIdent. The hope was to move CanonicalName instantiation outside of AIR
and into NIR, but doing so would be confusing and awkward without doing
something with BindIdent.
I don't have the time to deal with that for now, so let's observe how the
system continues to evolve and see whether hoisting it out makes sense in the
end. For now, this works just fine and I need to move on with the actual
goal of finishing package imports so that I can expand templates.
DEV-13162
Mike Gerwitz