Aiken's build system uses an internal global cache system to avoid
downloading the same packages over and over across projects. However,
prior to this commit, the cache key would be based of the dependency
version which can be either:
- A commit hash
- A branch or tag name
However, in the latter case, it means that the very first time we end
up fetching a dependency will lock its version forever (or until the
cache is cleared). This was inconvenient.
This commit changes that so that we use not only a branch name as
cache key, but additionally, the etag returned by the GitHub API
server. The etag is part of the HTTP headers, so it can be fetched
quickly using a simple HEAD request. It changes whenever the content
behind the endpoint changes -- which happens to be exactly what we
want. With this, we can quickly check whether an upstream package has
been updated and download the latest version should users have
specified a branch name as a version number.
For example, my current cache now looks as follow:
```
/Users/ktorz/Library/Caches/aiken/packages/
├── aiken-lang-stdlib-1cedbe85b7c7e9c4036d63d45cad4ced27b0d50b.zip
├── aiken-lang-stdlib-6b482fa00ec37fe936c93155e8c670f32288a686.zip
├── aiken-lang-stdlib-7ca9e659688ea88e1cfdc439b6c20c4c7fae9985.zip
└── aiken-lang-stdlib-main@04eb45df3c77f6611bbdff842a0e311be2c56390f0fa01f020d69c93ff567fe5.zip
```
This changes allow to use parenthesis `(` `)` to encapsulate
expressions in addition to braces `{` `}` used to define blocks.
The main use-case is for arithmetic and boolean expressions for which
developers are used to using parenthesis. For example:
```
{ 14 + 42 } * 1337
```
can now be written as:
```
( 14 + 42 ) * 1337
```
This may sound straightforward at first but wasn't necessarily trivial
in Aiken given that (a) everything is an expression, (b) whitespaces
do not generally matter and (c) there's no symbol indicating the end
of a 'statement' (because there's no statement).
Thus, we have to properly disambiguate between:
```
let foo = bar(14 + 42)
```
and
```
let foo = bar
(14 + 42)
```
Before this commit, the latter would be interpreted as a function call
and would lead to a somewhat puzzling error. Now, the newline serves
as a delimiting symbol. The trade-off being that for a function call,
the left parenthesis has to be on the same line as the function name
identifier -- which is a fair trade off. So this is still allowed:
```
let foo = bar(
14 + 42
)
```
As there's very little ambiguity about it.
This fixes#236 and would seemingly allow us to get rid of the leading
`#` in front of tuples.
* add unary op
* parse, typecheck, and code gen it
* express boolean not as unary op as well, previously called negate
Co-authored-by: rvcas <x@rvcas.dev>
## Before
```
× Type-checking
╰─▶ Unknown module field 'ValidityRaneg' in module 'aiken/transaction'
```
## After
```
× Type-checking
╰─▶ Unknown import 'ValidityRaneg' from module 'aiken/transaction'
╭─[../stdlib/validators/tmp.ak:2:1]
2 │ use aiken/interval.{Interval, IntervalBound, IntervalBoundType}
3 │ use aiken/transaction.{ScriptContext, ValidityRaneg}
· ─────────────
4 │
╰────
help: Did you mean to import 'ValidityRange'?
```
## Before
```
× Checking
╰─▶ Unexpected labeled argument
t
╭─[/Users/mati/Devel/OpenSource/time_lock_aiken/validators/time_lock.ak:13:1]
13 │ let now = when context.transaction.validity_range.lower_bound.bound_type is {
14 │ Finite { t } -> t
· ─
15 │ NegativeInfinity -> 0
╰────
```
## After
```
× Type-checking
╰─▶ Unexpected labeled argument 't'
╭─[../stdlib/validators/tmp.ak:10:1]
10 │ let now = when context.transaction.validity_range.lower_bound.bound_type is {
11 │ interval.Finite { t } -> t
· ─
12 │ interval.NegativeInfinity -> 0
╰────
help: The constructor 'Finite' does not have any labeled field. Its fields
must therefore be matched only by position.
Perhaps, try the following:
╰─▶ interval.Finite(t)
```
## Before
```
× Checking
╰─▶ Unknown variable
Finite
╭─[../stdlib/validators/tmp.ak:10:1]
10 │ let now = when context.transaction.validity_range.lower_bound.bound_type is {
11 │ Finite { t } -> t
· ────────────
12 │ NegativeInfinity -> 0
╰────
```
## After
```
× Type-checking
╰─▶ Unknown data-type constructor 'Finite'
╭─[../stdlib/validators/tmp.ak:10:1]
10 │ let now = when context.transaction.validity_range.lower_bound.bound_type is {
11 │ Finite { t } -> t
· ────────────
12 │ NegativeInfinity -> 0
╰────
help: Did you forget to import it?
Data-type constructors are not automatically imported, even if their type is
imported. So, if a module `aiken/pet` defines the following type:
┍━ aiken/pet.ak ━━━━━━━━
│ pub type Pet {
│ Cat
│ Dog
│ }
You must import its constructors explicitly to use them, or prefix them
with the module's name.
┍━ foo.ak ━━━━━━━━
│ use aiken/pet.{Pet, Dog}
│
│ fn foo(pet : Pet) {
│ when pet is {
│ pet.Cat -> // ...
│ Dog -> // ...
│ }
│ }
```
I am not entirely sure what the intent was for that keyword, but
nothing really matched between the parser, the formatter and the uplc
code gen. I don't think there's any need for a keyword here, trace is
already readily available from the builtins.
Before:
```
❯ aiken check
Error:
× No such file or directory (os error 2)
```
After:
```
❯ aiken check
Error:
× Missing 'aiken.toml' manifest in /Users/ktorz/Documents/Projects/aiken-lang/aiken
help: Try running `aiken new <REPOSITORY/PROJECT>` to initialise a project with an example manifest.
```
Co-authored-by: KtorZ <matthias.benkort@gmail.com>
This is the most intuitive thing I could come up with: since the
problem is mainly due to the order in which we try declaring the
aliases, then it suffices to simply try as much as we can, and retry
on failure until there's no more failure.
Note that it's important to detect cycles if we do such thing (which
we can by noticing that a given iteration didn't make any progress).
It works pretty well in the end and even allow us to define a new kind
of type error should there be a cyclic definition.