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.
DEV-13708
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.
DEV-13708
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.
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.
DEV-13708
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.
DEV-13708
This introduces a new macro `sum_ir!` to help with a long-standing problem
of not being able to easily narrow types in Rust without a whole lot of
boilerplate. This patch includes a bit of documentation, so see that for
more information.
This was not a welcome change---I jumped down this rabbit hole trying to
decompose `AirAggregate` so that I can share portions of parsing with the
current parser and a template parser. I can now proceed with that.
This is not the only implementation that I had tried. I previously inverted
the approach, as I've been doing manually for some time: manually create
types to hold the sets of variants, and then create a sum type to hold those
types. That works, but it resulted in a mess for systems that have to use
the IR, since now you have two enums to contend with. I didn't find that to
be appropriate, because we shouldn't complicate the external API for
implementation details.
The enum for IRs is supposed to be like a bytecode---a list of operations
that can be performed with the IR. They can be grouped if it makes sense
for a public API, but in my case, I only wanted subsets for the sake of
delegating responsibilities to smaller subsystems, while retaining the
context that `match` provides via its exhaustiveness checking but does not
expose as something concrete (which is deeply frustrating!).
Anyway, here we are; this'll be refined over time, hopefully, and
portions of it can be generalized for removing boilerplate from other IRs.
Another thing to note is that this syntax is really a compromise---I had to
move on, and I was spending too much time trying to get creative with
`macro_rules!`. It isn't the best, and it doesn't seem very Rust-like in
some places and is therefore not necessarily all that intuitive. This can
be refined further in the future. But the end result, all things
considered, isn't too bad.
DEV-13708
This sets the stage for template parsing, and finally decides how we're
going to represent templates on the ASG. This is going to start simple,
since my original plans for improving how templates are
handled (conceptually) is going to have to wait.
This is the last difficult object type to figure out, with respect to graph
representation and derivation, so I wanted to get it out of the way.
DEV-13708
I wasn't initially sure whether I'd want separate tokens for different types
of identifying operations, but now that I see that it is clear from the
current state of the parser, there's no need.
This matches the name of the token in NIR.
DEV-13708
Just as `rate` is a `sum`, `classify` is an `all` by default. The `@any`
attribute will change that interpretation, though I only intend to recognize
that in parsing later on, not emit that in XMLI.
DEV-13708
Let's start to be explicit about what's missing as we continue to add new
tokens; the exhaustiveness checks throughout the system will guide the
changes that need to be made.
DEV-13708
The element only, no attributes yet.
I'll keep forming boilerplate until abstraction points become obvious with
more variety; this is still pretty close to what was already supported.
DEV-13708
This was a fairly simple addition, since rate blocks already lower into sum
expressions; these are just non-identified.
This does emphasize that the nir::parse `ele_parse!` abstraction I spent so
much time on ended up not being a perfect fit, as it now has some
boilerplate after it was stripped of much of its capabilities some time ago.
Don't worry, `nir::air` and `asg::graph::xmli` will get cleaned up.
DEV-13708
This does not yet create edges from identifiers to the package; just getting
this introduced was quite a bit of work, so I want to get this committed.
Note that this also includes a change to NIR so that `Close` contains the
entity so that we can pattern-match for AIR transformations rather than
retaining yet another stack with checks that are already going to be done by
AIR. This makes NIR stand less on its own from a self-validation point, but
that's okay, given that it's the language that the user entered and,
conceptually, they could enter invalid NIR the same as they enter invalid
XML (e.g. from a REPL).
In _practice_, of course, NIR is lowered from XML and the schema is enforced
during that lowering and so the validation does exist as part of that
parsing.
These concessions speak more to the verbosity of the language (Rust) than
anything.
DEV-13159
This commit is what I've been sitting on for testing some of the recent
changes; it is a very basic demonstration of lowering all the way down
from source XML files into the ASG. This can be run on real files to
observe, beyond unit tests, how the system reacts.
Once this outputs data from the graph, we'll finally have tamec end-to-end
and can just keep filling the gaps.
I'm hoping to roll the desugaring process into NirToAir rather than having a
separate process as originally planned a couple of months back.
This also introduces the `wip-nir-to-air` feature flag. Currently,
interpolation will cause a `Nir::BindIdent` to be emitted in blocks that
aren't yet emitting NIR, and so results in an invalid parse.
DEV-13159
This does not yet yield the produces ASG, but does set up the lowering
pipeline to prepare to produce it. It's also currently a no-op, with
`NirToAsg` just yielding `Incomplete`.
The goal is to begin to move toward vertical slices for TAMER as I start to
return to the previous approach of a handoff with the old compiler. Now
that I've gained clarity from my previous failed approach (which I
documented in previous commits), I feel that this is the best way forward
that will allow me to incrementally introduce more fine-grained performance
improvements, at the cost of some throwaway work as this progresses. But
the cost of delay with these build times is far greater.
DEV-13429
Mike Gerwitz