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5 Commits (3c9e1add2062fdbfba9c71ba934d2fcd5cf9a32f)

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Mike Gerwitz c19ecba6ef tamer: asg::air::object::tpl: Reject multi-expression shape
This enforces the new constraint that templates expanding into an `Expr`
context must only inline a single `Expr`.

Perhaps in the future we'll support explicit splicing, like `,@` in
Lisp.  But this new restriction is intended for two purposes:

  - To make templates more predictable (if you have a list of expressions
    inlined then they will act differently depending on the type of
    expression that they are inlined into, which means that more defensive
    programming would otherwise be required); and
  - To make expansion easier, since we're going to have to set aside an
    expansion workspace ahead of time to ensure ordering (Petgraph can't
    replace edges in-place).  If we support multi-expansion, we'd have to
    handle associativity in all expression contexts.

This'll become more clear in future commits.

It's nice to see all this hard work coming together now, though; it's easy
now to perform static analysis on the system, and any part of the graph
construction can throw errors with rich diagnostic information and still
recover properly.  And, importantly, the system enforces its own state, and
the compiler helps us with that (the previous commits).

DEV-13163
2023-07-26 04:03:52 -04:00
Mike Gerwitz 9cb6195046 tamer: asg: Add basic Doc support (for @desc)
This introduces a new `Doc` object that can be owned by `Expr` (only atm)
and contain what it describes as a concise independent clause.  This
construction is not enforced, and is only really obvious today via the
Summary Pages.

There's a lot of latent and unrealized potential in TAME's documentation
philosophy that was never realized, so this will certainly evolve over
time.  But for now, the primary purpose was to get `@desc` working on things
like classifications so that `xmli` output can compile for certain
packages.

DEV-13708
2023-04-12 11:59:48 -04:00
Mike Gerwitz 669302700a tamer: build-aux/asg-ontviz: Vary arrowhead for cross edges
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.

DEV-13708
2023-03-29 12:58:34 -04:00
Mike Gerwitz 893da0ed20 tamer: asg: Dynamically determined cross edges
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.

DEV-13708
2023-03-29 12:58:34 -04:00
Mike Gerwitz 18fa910e0f tamer: {tools=>build-aux}/asg-ontviz
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.

DEV-13708
2023-03-10 15:13:30 -05:00