The typed-AST produced as a result of type-checking the program will
no longer contain unused let-bindings. They still raise warnings in
the code so that developers are aware that they are being ignore.
This is mainly done to prevent mistakes for people coming from an
imperative background who may think that things like:
```
let _ = foo(...)
```
should have some side-effects. It does not, and it's similar to
assigned variables that are never used / evaluated. We now properly
strip those elements from the AST when encountered and raise proper
warnings, even for discarded values.
It's generally a bad idea to use equality on enum variants because this won't trigger any compiler errors in the future yet could have hazardous effects if adding new variants. So it's usually preferrable to use exauhstive pattern matching and let the compiler warn missing cases in places where it matters.
This leads to more consistent formatting across entire Aiken programs.
Before that commit, only long expressions would be formatted on a
newline, causing non-consistent formatting and additional reading
barrier when looking at source code.
Programs also now take more vertical space, which is better for more
friendly diffing in version control systems (especially git).
It is now possible to leave a hole in a type annotation and have the compiler fill-in the expected type of us.
This is a pretty useful debugging tool when playing with complex functions.
The difference between 'FlexBreak' and 'Break(Mode::Strict/Flexible)' as always confused me; and turned out that the 'FlexBreak' thingy is never used. This is dead-code, so I removed it.
Rules are now as follows:
- If a pipeline contains a newline, then the entire pipeline is formatted over multiple lines.
- If it doesn't, then it's formatted as a single-line UNLESS it cannot fit; in which case, we fallback to multiline again.
These functions relied on the same dependency and had the same scope. So insertion was by encounter rather than order determined by dependency handling. Now we switched to dependency order is prioritized to prevent free unique.
-Builitins IR now acts like Record IR in terms of argument consumption
-UnConstrData returns as Pair(Data,Data) to conform with how pairs are treated behind the scenes.
This has been removed from the CIP-0057 specification since validators
are often re-used for multiple purposes (especially validators with
arity 2). It's misleading to assign a validator a purpose since the
purpose distinction actually happens _within_ the validator itself.
This has been bothering me and the more I thought of it the more I
disliked the idea of a warning. The rationale being that in this very
context, there's absolutely no ambiguity. So it is only frustrating
that the parser is even able to make the exact suggestion of what
should be fixed, but still fails.
I can imagine it is going to be very common for people to type:
```
trace "foo"
```
...yet terribly frustrating if they have to remember each time that
this should actually be a string. Because of the `trace`, `todo` and
`error` keywords, we know exactly the surrounding context and what to
expect here. So we can work it nicely.
However, the formatter will re-format it to:
```
trace @"foo"
```
Just for the sake of remaining consistent with the type-system. This
way, we still only manipulate `String` in the AST, but we conveniently
parse a double-quote utf-8 literal when coupled with one of the
specific keywords.
I believe that's the best of both worlds.
This will probably save people minutes/hours of puzzled debugging. This is only a warning because there may be cases where one do actually want to specify an hex-encoded bytearray. In which case, they can get rid of the warning by using the plain bytearray syntax (i.e. as an array of bytes).
KtorZ