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
This introduces, but does not yet integrate, `CanonicalName`, which not only
represents canonicalized package names, but handles namespec resolution.
The term "namespec" is motivated by Git's use of *spec (e.g. refspec)
referring to various ways of specifying a particular object. Names look
like paths, and are derived from them, but they _are not paths_. Their
resolution is a purely lexical operation, and they include a number of
restrictions to simplify their clarity and handling. I expect them to
evolve more in the future, and I've had ideas to do so for quite some time.
In particular, resolving packages in this way and then loading the from the
filesystem relative to the project root will ensure that
traversing (conceptually) to a parent directory will not operate
unintuitively with symlinks. The path will always resolve unambigiously.
(With that said, if the symlink is to a shared directory with different
directory structures, that doesn't solve the compilation problem---we'll
have to move object files into a project-specific build directory to handle
that.)
Span Slicing
------------
Okay, it's worth commenting on the horridity of the path name slicing that
goes on here. Care has been taken to ensure that spans will be able to be
properly sliced in all relevant contexts, and there are plenty of words
devoted to that in the documentation committed here.
But there is a more fundamental problem here that I regret not having solved
earlier, because I don't have the time for it right now: while we do have
SPair, it makes no guarantees that the span associated with the corresponding
SymbolId is actually the span that matches the original source lexeme. In
fact, it's often not.
This is a problem when we want to slice up a symbol in an SPair and produce
a sensible span. If it _is_ a source lexeme with its original span, that's
no problem. But if it's _not_, then the two are not in sync, and slicing up
the span won't produce something that actually makes sense to the user. Or,
worse (or maybe it's not worse?), it may cause a panic if the slicing is out
of bounds.
The solution in the future might be to store explicitly the state of an
SPair, or call it Lexeme, or something, so that we know the conditions under
which slicing is safe. If I ever have time for that in this project.
But the result of the lack of a proper abstraction really shows here: this
is some of the most confusing code in TAMER, and it's really not doing
anything all that complicated. It is disproportionately confusing.
DEV-13162
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
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
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
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
RSG (Ryan Specialty Group) recently announced a rename to Ryan Specialty (no
"Group"), but I'm not sure if the legal name has been changed yet or not, so
I'll wait on that.
This is enabled by default in nightly, and is not available at all in
stable. Considering the PITA that it will be to go back and rewrite docs to
use the new format, and how important of a feature this is, we will just
make use of it now.
Mike Gerwitz