This is already a concept in the XSLT-based compiler, where each package has
a `package/@name` generated from its path. The same will happen with tamec.
Before we can load packages into the graph, we need canonical identifiers so
that they can be indexed. The next commit will handle indexing using this
information.
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The documentation explains the intent here---existing LaTeX documentation.
The intent was to simply copy the documentation into a LaTeX document based
on the lvspec package that I had created long ago. Of course, that's not
appropriate---we're a DSL and should provide first-class support for
documentation that will compile properly into the target format, whether it
be LaTeX, HTML, JS, or anything else.
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These have been a pain in the ass since TAMER began.
It seemed like a good idea at the time to have static code generated in this
way, but the lack of explicit dependencies just makes this a mess and works
against the operating theory of the system.
Furthermore, the _same_ static fragments were generated for each and every
map package.
There is still a post-link step (standalones) handled in XSLT; the
previously-static code has been moved there. This will eventually be
integrated into tameld itself, once TAMER has facilities for JS generation.
(This was discovered while trying to parent identifiers to packages.)
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With the previous commit using a visitor implemented within the `asg`
module, we can now finally encapsulate the graph. This is a wonderfully
liberating, long-awaited change, since I have been fighting with the lack of
encapsulation for some time; it has made certain changes challenging and has
made the system more difficult to reason about. It also made it impossible
to assert that invariants were _actually_ properly enforced, if things could
just peer into and modify the graph directly, out from underneath the API
that provides those assurances.
This also removes our dependency on Petgraph outside of the `asg`
module. There are no plans to migrate away from it currently; we'll see how
the graph continues to evolve over time and what redundancies are introduced
with our data structures. It may render petgraph unnecessary.
Interestingly, because my DFS implementation is so similar to Petgraph's,
the emitted ordering is _identical_ between this commit and the previous.
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This integrates the new topological sort, replacing the previous
implementation in the linker.
This will now allow encapsulating the graph, finally, and ensures that
future changes can be fully maintained within the `asg` module.
More cleanup will come over time.
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This commit includes plenty of documentation, so you should look there.
It's desirable to describe the sorting that TAME performs as a topological
sort, since that's the end result we want. This uses the ontology to
determine what to do to the graph when a cycle is encountered. So
technically we're sorting a graph with cycles, but you can equivalently view
this as first transforming the graph to cut all cycles and then sorting it.
For the sake of trivia, the term "cut" is used for two reasons: (1) it's an
intuitive visualization, and (2) the term "cut" has precedence in logic
programming (e.g. Prolog), where it (`!`) is used to prevent
backtracking. We're also preventing backtracking, via a back edge, which
would produce a cycle.
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This introduces cycle detection, but it does not yet filter ontologically
permitted cycles, which will be needed prior to utilizing this in `tameld`.
There's a considerable amount of documentation here. While the
implementation is fairly simple, there are important algorithmic decisions,
both in the DFS construction and the derivation of the cycle path from data
that already exists.
This also supports recovery (by ignoring cycles), which can then be utilized
to find more cycles and other errors in the system.
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This is an initial implementation that does not yet produce errors on
cycles. Documentation is not yet complete.
The implementation is fairly basic, and similar to Petgraph's DFS.
A terminology note: the DFS will be ontology-aware (or at least aware of
edge metadata) to avoid traversing edges that would introduce cycles in
situations where they are permitted, which effectively performs a
topological sort on an implicitly _filtered_ graph.
This will end up replacing ld::xmle::lower::sort.
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tameld isn't yet adding edges to Idents from their associated Pkg (see
previous commit), but this formalizes how the ontology will interpret such a
relationship. The idea is that Idents are always owned by Pkgs, but they
may be optionally explicitly rooted, which will be used by a particular type
of DFS walk that is about to be written, which can ignore Root->Pkg and
focus instead on cross edges to Idents.
Though it's not lost on me that now that I'll be introducing a DFS for the
linker, the terms "cross" and "tree" edge now become ambiguous; I used to
call them "ontological X edge", but I had fallen out of that habit; perhaps
I need to reintroduce that rigor.
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This modifies the xmlo reader, xmlo->AIR lowering, and AIR->ASG to introduce
a package for identifiers. It does not yet, however, add edges from the
package to the identifier.
Once edges are added, the DFS will change in undesirable ways, which will
require a new implementation. This is desirable to decouple from Petgraph
anyway, and then will be able to restore the prior single-pass sort+cycle
check.
That will also encapsulate visiting behavior within the `asg::graph` module
and, in turn, allow encapsulating `Asg.graph` finally.
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This doesn't go far enough, but it elaborates a bit---the existing was far
too much of a catch-all. It's important to take advantage of exhaustiveness
checks to ensure each transition is properly accounted for.
This parser is going to get more work over time, including right now, so I'm
not going to go too deep into this yet, but it's be useful (as a reader) to
compare it to e.g. asg::air's parsers' explicit enumeration of states and
favoring of explicit errors over dead state transitions.
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This may now index _any_ type of object, in preparation for indexing package
import paths. In practice, this only makes sense (at least currently) for
`Pkg` and `Ident`.
This generalization also applies to `Asg::lookup_or_missing`.
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Historically, the ASG was better described as a "dependency graph",
containing only identifiers (which are simply called "symbols" in the
XSLT-based compiler). Consequently, it was appropriate for the graph to
have operations specific to identifiers. (Indeed, that's the only type of
object the graph supported.)
Much has changed since then. This cleans things up, and makes parenting
identifiers to root an _explicit_ operation. This will make it easier to
move forward with handling of scope, and importing identifiers into
packages, and removing `Source`, and so on.
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I've been torturing myself trying to figure out how I want to generalize
indexing, lookups, and value numbering in a way that is appropriate for this
project (that is, not over-engineered relative to my needs).
Before I can do much of anything, though, I need to stop having indexing
only as a `Root` thing (previously it wasn't even tied to `Root`). This
makes that change for tamec, but temporarily removes scoping concerns until
I can add more specific types of indexing.
Not only does this allow cleaning up some `Ident`-specific stuff from `Asg`,
but the cleanup also helps to show that portions of the system aren't still
using Root-based globals.
The linker (`tameld`) still uses the old `global` methods for now; those
will eventually go away, but this needs to change to unify both tamec and
tameld once we get to imports as part of the compiler.
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This is needed to then support `@desc` for shorthand desugaring; it's
required by the XSLT-based compiler (and will eventually be required by
TAMER too).
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This is needed by TAMER's template desugaring. The XSD is superceded by
`nir::parse`, but can't go away until TAMER fully supplants the XSLT-based
compiler.
...and after all this time, I still never got rid of the duplicate XSD. Or
even recall which one is the duplicate.
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TAMER desugars shorthand template application bodies (`@values@`) into _the
name of a closed template_ whose body should be expanded into place. This
change recognizes that convention, and makes use of it.
Desugaring is part of `nir::tplshort`.
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XIRF->Nir produces `Todo` and `TodoAttr` tokens for many different
things. The previous approach was to ignore those things so that I could
begin adding portions of packages to the graph and observe how that goes.
But now that I'm starting to be able to compile certain packages that
utilize only small subsets of TAME features, I need to have confidence that
I'm fully parsing them. This means rejecting tokens that I haven't yet
gotten to.
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This supports arbitrary documentation as sibling text (mixed content, in XML
terms). The motivation behind this change is to permit existing system
tests to succeed when `Todo | TodoAttr` are both rejected, rather than
having to ignore this.
TAME has always had a philosophy of literate documentation, however it was
never fully realized. This just maintains the status quo; the text is
unstructured, and maybe will be parsed in the future.
Unfortunately, this does _not_ include the output in the `xmli` file or the
system tests. The reason has nothing to do with TAMER---`xmllint` does not
format the output when there is mixed content, it seems, and I need to move
on for now; I'll consider my options in the future. But, it's available on
the graph and ready to go.
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This _only_ re-introduces for PackageStmt since that's all I have tests for
at present. More will be re-added later.
They were previously removed when the attribute parsing was upended in
`ele_parse!`.
This does lose the attribute name, compared to before; that'll ideally be
re-added, and I'll explore options for doing so later, since I also want
them in other contexts. But it needs to be done generically (not
XML-related).
This had to be done before blowing up on TODOs, or system tests would fail.
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This is in preparation for throwing errors (with diagnostic information) on
yet-to-be-supported tokens, so that I can confidently compile individual
packages without worrying that something is just being ignored.
This makes obvious that `ele_parse!` had a different design in mind
previously, and it's now resulting in a lot of boilerplate; I'll address
that in the future once I'm certain requirements have been settled on, since
I've spent far too much time on it to waste more.
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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.
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These are used by virtually every `ObjectKind`; I've been meaning to do this
for a while, but now that I'm about to introduce a new one (`Doc`), let's
just get it out of the way.
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This doesn't do the actual hard work yet of resolving and loading a package,
but it does place it on the graph and re-derive it into the xmli output.
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This introduces `<match on="foo" />` and `<match on="foo" value="bar" />`,
which are both equality predicates. Other types of predicates are not yet
supported.
This change is a bit messy and leaves a bit to be desired. `NirToAir` is
quite messy and needs some cleanup. There's also the issue of introducing
XML-specific errors in NIR so that users know what things like "subject"
mean, but not being able to do so yet because NIR is agnostic to the source
document type; another layer of abstraction is needed.
But, my priority is first to get derivation of a particularly
expensive (generated) package in our internal systems working first.
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The alternative I was floating was a tagged `Ref` (that is, with an enum
within it), but I settled on this for now, in part for a more concise
notation with the mapping in nir::parse.
We'll see how this evolves. For now, it's not important with the only thing
that uses ref in nir::parse, which is template application.
This was introduced for `match`, which is to come shortly.
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This recognizes template application within expressions. Since expressions
can occur within templates, this can occur arbitrarily deeply.
And with that, we have the core of the template system represented on the
graph. Of course, there are some glaring scoping issues to be resolved, but
those aren't unique to template application.
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I had hoped this would be considerably easier to implement, but there are
some confounding factors.
First of all: this accomplishes the initial task of getting nested template
applications and definitions re-output in the `xmli` file. But to do so
successfully, some assumptions had to be made.
The primary issue is that of scope. The old (XSLT-based) TAME relied on the
output JS to handle lexical scope for it at runtime in most situations. In
the case of the template system, when scoping/shadowing were needed, complex
and buggy XPaths were used to make a best effort. The equivalent here would
be a graph traversal, which is not ideal.
I had begun going down the rabbit hole of formalizing lexical scope for
TAMER with environments, but I want to get this committed and working first;
I've been holding onto this and breaking off changes for some time now.
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All ObjectIndex-like objects hash using only the underlying identifier,
which ultimately boils down to a `NodeIndex` (petgraph), which is just a
u32. And so in that sense, the only purpose we have for hashing it is to
(a) reduce the space required to store mappings, and (b) compose with other
`Hash`es.
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This creates another trait and struct `ObjectIndexToTree` that assert a
stronger invariant than `ObjectIndexRelTo`---that not only does it uphold
the invariants of `ObjectIndexRelTo`, but also that it represents a _tree_
edge, which indicates _ownership_ rather than just a reference.
This will be used to statically infer what can serve as a scope boundary for
upcoming changes. Specifically, anything that can own an `Ident` introduces
a new level of scope.
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This allows this method to be used on anything that is able to relate to an
identifier, which is needed for the changes being made for the template
system.
This linear lookup is actually going away (as hinted at by preceding
commits); this is extracted as part of a larger change and I wanted to get
it committed to make it easier to follow upcoming changes.
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The prior commit begins to explain the end goal of being able to index
identifiers outside of the global environment.
This change continues to index things as before, but introduces a new key
based on the pair of the symbol id together with a node that is _part of_
its target environment. The only environment utilized at the moment (in this
commit) is that of the root node (which is the global scope), in both
indexing and lookup. Future commits will extend this, and contain more
information about and rationale for the implementation.
The new general index methods are restricted to `pub(super)` until an
abstraction can be put in place that is responsible for environment
indexing; that's a responsibility that is currently handled by
`AirAggregateCtx` for tamec, and the linker has no scoping
requirements since all of that has already been dealt with.
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This reverts commit 1b7eac337cd5909c01ede3a5b3fba577898d5961.
This is a revert of the previous revert, just so that I (and you) have
references to prior rationale.
This was previously reverted because it wasn't worth doing, but now we have
a situation where we need to begin implementing lexical scoping rules for
nested containers (packages and templates). In particular, as you'll see in
the commits that follow, we need to be able to look up an identifier that
may have been created as Missing at one level of scope (certain types of
blocks), but then define it at another level.
Or, even more simply at this point, since I'm not yet doing anything
sophisticated with scope: we're only indexing in the global environment, and
we need to be able to index elsewhere too.
The next commit will go into more information, but suffice it to say for now
that indexing is going to get more complicated than a SymbolId.
Sticking with FxHash for now; we don't need a stable hash now.
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There are no such invalid expansion contexts yet, but this gets rid of the
final remaining TODO from introducing the stack. With the existing feature
set, at least.
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This eliminates the TODOs that existed when looking for an OI for rooting an
identifier.
The change to `rooting_ci` is ridiculous, but I want to get other things
done before I jump down the rabbit hole of generalizing that (indexing local
identifiers). Though I have an approach in mind.
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Just some continued cleanup.
Unfortunately, we have sacrificed knowing a package OI must exist
statically, even though one will always be available.
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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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Mike Gerwitz