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- Completely remove the nexp = nexp syntax in favour of nexp ==
nexp. All our existing specs have already switched over. As part of
this fix every test that used the old syntax, and update the
generated aarch64 specs
- Remove the `type when constraint` syntax. It just makes changing the
parser in any way really awkward.
- Change the syntax for declaring new types with multiple type
parameters from:
type foo('a : Type) ('n : Int), constraint = ...
to
type foo('a: Type, 'n: Int), constraint = ...
This makes type declarations mimic function declarations, and makes
the syntax for declaring types match the syntax for using types, as
foo is used as foo(type, nexp). None of our specifications use types
with multiple type parameters so this change doesn't actually break
anything, other than some tests. The brackets around the type
parameters are now mandatory.
- Experiment with splitting Type/Order type parameters from Int type
parameters in the parser.
Currently in a type bar(x, y, z) all of x, y, and z could be either
numeric expressions, orders, or types. This means that in the parser
we are severely restricted in what we can parse in numeric
expressions because everything has to be parseable as a type (atyp)
- it also means we can't introduce boolean type
variables/expressions or other minisail features (like removing
ticks from type variables!) because we are heavily constrained by
what we can parse unambigiously due to how these different type
parameters can be mixed and interleaved.
There is now experimental syntax: vector::<'o, 'a>('n) <-->
vector('n, 'o, 'a) which splits the type argument list into two
between Type/Order-polymorphic arguments and Int-polymorphic
arguments. The exact choice of delimiters isn't set in stone - ::<
and > match generics in Rust. The obvious choices of < and > / [ and
] are ambigious in various ways.
Using this syntax right now triggers a warning.
- Fix undefined behaviour in C compilation when concatenating a
0-length vector with a 64-length vector.
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Previously union types could have no-argument constructors, for
example the option type was previously:
union option ('a : Type) = {
Some : 'a,
None
}
Now every union constructor must have a type, so option becomes:
union option ('a : Type) = {
Some : 'a,
None : unit
}
The reason for this is because previously these two different types of
constructors where very different in the AST, constructors with
arguments were used the E_app AST node, and no-argument constructors
used the E_id node. This was particularly awkward, because it meant
that E_id nodes could have polymorphic types, i.e. every E_id node
that was also a union constructor had to be annotated with a type
quantifier, in constrast with all other identifiers that have
unquantified types. This became an issue when monomorphising types,
because the machinery for figuring out function instantiations can't
be applied to identifier nodes. The same story occurs in patterns,
where previously unions were split across P_id and P_app nodes - now
the P_app node alone is used solely for unions.
This is a breaking change because it changes the syntax for union
constructors - where as previously option was matched as:
function is_none opt = match opt {
Some(_) => false,
None => true
}
it is now matched as
function is_none opt = match opt {
Some(_) => false,
None() => true
}
note that constructor() is syntactic sugar for constructor(()), i.e. a
one argument constructor with unit as it's value. This is exactly the
same as for functions where a unit-function can be called as f() and
not as f(()). (This commit also makes exit() work consistently in the
same way) An attempt to pattern match a variable with the same name as
a union-constructor now gives an error as a way to guard against
mistakes made because of this change.
There is probably an argument for supporting the old syntax via some
syntactic sugar, as it is slightly prettier that way, but for now I
have chosen to keep the implementation as simple as possible.
The RISCV spec, ARM spec, and tests have been updated to account for
this change. Furthermore the option type can now be included from
$SAIL_DIR/lib/ using
$include <option.sail>
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