This litters aberrations like 'alt({foo.bar}) { ... }' and f({*baz})
though the code (mostly in trans.rs). These are a way to explicitly
copy the given value so that it can be safely aliased. At some point
we'll probably want a more explicit copy operator.
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unify_fn_common had the expected and actual types reversed in one
place. This was causing the type of an occurence of a function f
with type fn(int) -> T to be set to fn(_|_) -> T at a call site like
f(fail); I think this was also making some of the type error messages
come out backwards, but I haven't checked.
Also: ty_bot does not contain pointers
Previously, block_ty returned the type of the terminating
expression of the block (or nil if said expression was absent).
I changed check_expr to write the type of that expression into
the annotation for the block itself, so now block_ty can use the
block's annotation.
The typechecker had a number of special cases for unifying types
with _|_ (as with checking if and alt). But, a value of type _|_
should be usable in any context, as such a value always diverges,
and will never be used by its immediate context. Changed unify
accordingly, removed special cases.
Change ty_fn to have a controlflow field. A 'controlflow' is
essentially a bit of data that says whether or not this function
never returns to the caller (if it never returns, that means it calls
"fail" or another "never-returns" function on every control path).
Also add syntax for annotating functions that never return:
fn foo() -> ! {
fail;
}
for example. Functions marked with ! implicitly have a result type of
ty_bot, which is a new type that this commit also adds.
* Reorganized typestate into several modules.
* Made typestate check that any function with a non-nil return type
returns a value. For now, the check is a warning and not an error
(see next item).
* Added a "bot" type (prettyprinted as _|_), for constructs like be, ret, break, cont, and
fail that don't locally return a value that can be inspected. "bot"
is distinct from "nil". There is no concrete syntax for _|_, while
the concrete syntax for the nil type is ().
* Added support to the parser for a ! annotation on functions whose
result type is _|_. Such a function is required to have either a
fail or a call to another ! function that is reached in all control
flow paths. The point of this annotation is to mark functions like
unimpl() and span_err(), so that an alt with a call to err() in one
case isn't a false positive for the return-value checker. I haven't
actually annotated anything with it yet.
* Random bugfixes:
* * Fixed bug in trans::trans_binary that was throwing away the
cleanups for nested subexpressions of an and or or
(tests: box-inside-if and box-inside-if2).
** In typeck, unify the expected type arguments of a tag with the
actual specified arguments.
