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118 lines
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# TODO items
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## General code cleanup
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- standardize on an error type that isn't String
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-give scope reduction reference to symbol_table
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-turn ast reduction into methods-on-struct-returning-result format
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## Reduction
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- make a good type for actual language builtins to avoid string comparisons
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## Typechecking
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- make a type to represent types rather than relying on string comparisons
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- look at https://rickyhan.com/jekyll/update/2018/05/26/hindley-milner-tutorial-rust.html
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- cf. the notation mentioned in the cardelli paper, the debug information for the `typechecking` pass should
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print the generated type variable for every subexpression in an expression
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- think about idris-related ideas of multiple implementations of a type for an interface (+ vs * impl for monoids, for preorder/inorder/postorder for Foldable)
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-should have an Idris-like `cast To From` function
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## Schala-lang syntax
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-idea: the `type` declaration should have some kind of GADT-like syntax
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- Idea: if you have a pattern-match where one variant has a variable and the other lacks it
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instead of treating this as a type error, promote the bound variable to an option type
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- Include extensible scala-style html"string ${var}" string interpolations
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- A neat idea for pattern matching optimization would be if you could match on one of several things in a list
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ex:
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```if x {
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is (comp, LHSPat, RHSPat) if comp in ["==, "<"] -> ...
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}```
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- Schala should have both currying *and* default arguments!
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```fn a(b: Int, c:Int, d:Int = 1) -> Int
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a(1,2) : Int
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a(1,2,d=2): Int
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a(_,1,3) : Int -> Int
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a(1,2, c=_): Int -> Int
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a(_,_,_) : Int -> Int -> Int -> Int
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```
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- scoped types - be able to define a quick enum type scoped to a function or other type for
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something, that only is meant to be used as a quick bespoke interface between
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two other things
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ex.
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```type enum {
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type enum MySubVariant {
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SubVariant1, SubVariant2, etc.
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}
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Variant1(MySubVariant),
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Variant2(...),
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}```
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- inclusive/exclusive range syntax like .. vs ..=
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## Compilation
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-look into Inkwell for rust LLVM bindings
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-https://cranelift.readthedocs.io/en/latest/?badge=latest<Paste>
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## Other links of note
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- https://nshipster.com/never/
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-consult http://gluon-lang.org/book/embedding-api.html
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## Playing around with conditional syntax ideas
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- if/match playground
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simple if
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`if x == 1.0 { "a" } else { "b" }`
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one comparison multiple targets:
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`if x == { 1.0 -> "a", 2.0 -> "b", else -> "c" }`
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different comparison operators/ method calls:
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`if x { == 1.0 -> "a", eq NaN -> "n", .hella() -> "h", else -> "z" }`
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pattern matching/introducing bindings:
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`if alice { .age < 18 -> "18", is Person("Alice", age) -> "${age}", else -> "none" }`
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pattern matching w/ if-let:
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`if person is Person("Alice", age) { "${age}" } else { "nope" }`
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-https://soc.github.io/languages/unified-condition-syntax syntax:
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`if <cond-expr>" then <then-expr> else <else-expr>`
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`if <half-expr> \n <rest-expr1> then <result1-expr> \n <rest-expr2> then <result-expr2> else <result3-expr>`
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-and rest-exprs (or "targets") can have 'is' for pattern-matching, actually so can a full cond-expr
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UNIFIED IF EXPRESSIONS FINAL WORK:
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basic syntax:
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`if_expr := if discriminator '{' (guard_expr)* '}'`
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`guard_expr := pattern 'then' block_or_expr'`
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`pattern := rhs | is_pattern`
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`is_pattern := 'is' ???`
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`rhs := expression | ???`
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if the only two guard patterns are true and false, then the abbreviated syntax:
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`'if' discriminator 'then' block_or_expr 'else' block_or_expr`
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can replace `'if' discriminator '{' 'true' 'then' block_or_expr; 'false' 'then' block_or_expr '}'`
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