* fixes#15210 [backport:1.2]
* make tests green
* make ordinal work
* makes Swapable test compile
* make Indexable example work
* concepts: 'self' is now 'Self'
* concepts: make Dictionary example compile
* document the new concept implementation
* concepts: make typeDesc work properly
* concepts: allow documentation comments (d'oh)
* reworked ID handling
* the packed AST now has its own ID mechanism
* basic serialization code works
* extract rodfiles to its own module
* rodfiles: store and compare configs
* rodfiles: store dependencies
* store config at the end
* precise dependency tracking
* dependency tracking for rodfiles
* completed loading of PSym, PType, etc
* removed dead code
* bugfix: do not realloc seqs when taking addr into an element
* make IC opt-in for now
* makes tcompilerapi green again
* final cleanups
Co-authored-by: Andy Davidoff <github@andy.disruptek.com>
* refactoring: idents don't need inheritance
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 1)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 2)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 3)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 4)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* refactoring: adding an IdGenerator (part 5)
* IdGenerator must be a ref type; hello world works again
* make bootstrapping work again
* progress: add back the 'exactReplica' ideas
* added back the missing exactReplica hacks
* make tcompilerapi work again
* make important packages green
* attempt to fix the build for 32 bit machines (probably need a better solution here)
* Expand hoisted default params in sem
Introduce ast.newTree{I,IT}
Add test for default params in procs
* Cleanup
* Simplify hoist transformation and expand test
* Fix typeSym.getImpl for ref types
* Fix a codegen issue affecting the test suite of nim-beacon-chain
* Fix tests/stdlib/tjsonmacro
To understand the fix better it may help to take a look
at the history of the replaced code.
The nil check that is removed in this commit was introduced
in another fix that failed to identify the root cause of the
issue - namely that we allow an object type to exist for which
no ast is present:
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/9601/files
The original intention of the code is more obvious here:
https://github.com/nim-lang/Nim/pull/9538/files
* Why is tyInferred needed?
The bindings in TCandidate are capable of inferring types within a single
call expression. In concepts, we need to infer types in the same way, but
across the whole body of the concept.
Previously, once a concept type param was inferred, it was destructively
mutated using t.assignType, but this proved to be problematic in the presence
of overloads, because the bindings established while a non-matching overload
is tested must be reverted/forgotten. tyInferred offers a non-destructive way to
keep track of the inference progress.
While introducing new types usually requires a lot of code paths in the compiler
to updated, currently tyInferred is only a short-lived type within the concept body
pass and it's unlikely to introduce breakage elsewhere in the compiler.
