Mike Gerwitz
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This ensures that each metavariable defined within a template (a template parameter) has, by the time that the template definition is ended, at least one reference to each metavariable. This has practical benefits---ensuring that you haven't forgotten to use a metavariable; ensuring that you clean up when code is removed; and ensuring that you didn't accidentally delete some reference that you didn't intend to (at least in the case of _all_ references...)---but the rationale for it in this commit is a bit different. More on that below. This does introduce the negative effect of making it more difficult to consume inputs without utilizing them, acting more like a relevant type system (in terms of substructural type systems and with respect to metavariables, at least). You can for now reference them in contexts that would reasonably have no effect on the program or be optimized away, but in the future it'd be nice to explicitly state "hey this isn't intended to be used yet", especially if you're creating shells of templates, or trying to maintain BC in a particular situation. But more on that in the future. For now, the real reason for this change is because of how I intend for template expansion to work: by walking the body. Rather than having to check both the parameters of the template and then expand the body separately, we can simply trust that each parameter is referenced. Then, after rebinding metavariable references, we can perform the same check on the expansion template to see if there were arguments provided that do not correspond to parameters. This also adds flexibility with parameters that are used conditionally---we'll be able to have conditionally required parameters in error reporting. More information on this is coming, though; it'll be included in the docs of the commit that introduces the changes. DEV-13163 |
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README.md
System and Integration Tests
Rust files in this directory will be recognized by Cargo and will be
automatically compiled and run by make check.
Shell scripts prefixed with test- will be recognized by our test harness
and run on make check. These scripts should be preferred when confidence
in the system end-to-end is required, since they invoke the binaries just
the same as the user or build process would.
Unit and integration tests written in Rust are located alongside the modules
they test in ../src/. Benchmarks are in
../benches.