Opened 5 years ago

Closed 11 months ago

#128 closed enhancement (fixed)

Rearchitect TupleType

Reported by: a3moss Owned by:
Priority: minor Component: cfa-cc
Version: 1.0 Keywords:
Cc:

Description

Rob left some comments on the design of the TupleType AST node suggesting some different design directions (see src/SynTree/TupleType.cc or src/AST/Type.cpp). The gist is that the relationship between the types and members fields is non-trivial, and could be factored out more cleanly.

Comment verbatim below:

This is very awkward. TupleType should contain objects so that members can
be named, but if they don't have an initializer node then they end up
getting constructors, which end up being inserted causing problems. This
happens because the object decls have to be visited so that their types are
kept in sync with the types list here. Ultimately, the types list here
should be eliminated and perhaps replaced with a list-view of the object
types list, but I digress. The temporary solution here is to make a
ListInit with maybeConstructed = false, that way even when the object is
visited, it is never constructed. Ultimately, a better solution might be
either:

a) to separate TupleType from its declarations, into TupleDecl and
Tuple{Inst?}Type, ala StructDecl and StructInstType

b) separate initializer nodes better, e.g. add a MaybeConstructed node
that is replaced by genInit, rather than what currently exists in a bool

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 11 months ago by ajbeach

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

Possibly through waves of refactoring there was actually only one use of the members field left. I changed that one use (in CurrentObject?) so was not a use and then removed the field. This only applies to the new ast (so src/AST/Type.cpp and not src/SynTree/Type.cc) as the old version can just stay as is until we remove it.

This does not address any of the possible reworks to the initializer node organization. If there are other reasons to make those changes a new issues should be created.

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