This replaces u8 and will be used for the new XmloReader.
Previously I wasn't sure what direction TAMER was going to go in with
regards to dimensionality, but I do not expect that higher dimensions will
be supported, and if they are, they'd very likely compile down to lower ones
and create an illusion of higher-dimensionality.
Whatever the future holds, it's not used today, and I'd rather these types
be correct.
ASG needs changing too, but one step at a time.
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This converts the tuple type alias into a newtype, so that we may provide
our own implementations.
This differs from a previous approach that I took, which involved making
this type `Result<(S, T), (S, E)>` so that the return values composed well
with other functions. But the reality is that this is used only by other
`ParseState`s and `Parser`, so it's unnecessary.
However, this is also an attempt to utilize the new Try and FromResidual
traits; note how the Try associated types match precisely what I was trying
to do before, though they're used as intermediate types. I'll see how this
evolves.
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This allows the Results to compose and, importantly, is compatible with
`?` without having to put in any extra effort.
This makes puts the caller in an awkward spot, so I introduced a utility
function `result_tup0_invert` for now; we'll see if that stays or evolves
differently.
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This begins to transition XmloReader into a ParseState. Unlike previous
changes where ParseStates were composed into a single ParseState, this is
instead a lowering operation that will take the output of one Parser and
provide it to another.
The mess in ld::poc (...which still needs to be refactored and removed)
shows the concept, which will be abstracted away. This won't actually get
to the ASG in order to test that that this works with the
wip-xmlo-xir-reader flag on (development hasn't gotten that far yet), but
since it type-checks, it should conceptually work.
Wiring lowering operations together is something that I've been dreading for
months, but my approach of only abstracting after-the-fact has helped to
guide a sane approach for this. For some definition of "sane".
It's also worth noting that AsgBuilder will too become a ParseState
implemented as another lowering operation, so:
XIR -> XIRF -> XMLO -> ASG
These steps will all be streaming, with iteration happening only at the
topmost level. For this reason, it's important that ASG not be responsible
for doing that pull, and further we should propagate Parsed::Incomplete
rather than filtering it out and looping an indeterminate number of times
outside of the toplevel.
One final note: the choice of 64 for the maximum depth is entirely
arbitrary and should be more than generous; it'll be finalized at some point
in the future once I actually evaluate what maximum depth is reasonable
based on how the system is used, with some added growing room.
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The parsing framework originally created for XIR is now more general and
useful to other things. We'll see how this evolves.
This needs additional documentation, but I'd like to see how it changes as
I implement XmloReader and then some of the source readers first.
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This adds a `Token` type to `ParseState`. Everything uses `xir::Token`
currently, but `XmloReader` will use `xir::flat::Object`.
Now that this has been generalized beyond XIR, the parser ought to be
hoisted up a level.
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This does a couple of things: it ensures that documents one and only one
root note, and it properly handles dead transitions once parsing is
complete (allowing it to be composed).
This should make XIRF feature-complete for the time being. It does rely on
the assumption that the reader is stripping out any trailing whitespace, so
I guess we'll see if that's true as we proceed.
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XIRF introduced the concept of `Transition` to help document code and
provide mental synchronization points that make it easier to reason about
the system. I decided to hoist this into XIR's parser itself, and have
`parse_token` accept an owned state and require a new state to be returned,
utilizing `Transition`.
Together with the convenience methods introduced on `Transition` itself,
this produces much clearer code, as is evidenced by tree::Stack (XIRT's
parser). Passing an owned state is something that I had wanted to do
originally, but I thought it'd lead to more concise code to use a mutable
reference. Unfortunately, that concision lead to code that was much more
difficult than necessary to understand, and ended up having a net negative
benefit by leading to some more boilerplate for the nested types (granted,
that could have been alleviated in other ways).
This also opens up the possibility to do something that I wasn't able to
before, which was continue to abstract away parser composition by stitching
their state machines together. I don't know if this'll be done immediately,
but because the actual parsing operations are now able to compose
functionally without mutability getting the way, the previous state coupling
issues with the parent parser go away.
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This introduces XIR Flat (XIRF), which is conceptually between XIR and
XIRT. This provides a more appropriate level of abstraction for further
lowering operations to parse against, and removes the need for other parsers
to perform their own validations (inappropriately) to ensure well-formed
XML.
There is still some cleanup worth doing, including moving some of the
parsing responsibility up a level back into the XIR parser.
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Mike Gerwitz