Far less verbose than defining classes by hand, plus, it allows to have everything about a single error be co-located. And finally, it allows to use 'related', 'label' and so on more easily.
- Display function's signature next to the function name
(instead of being repeated below the function documentation).
- Same for module constants
- Display record constructors in a more concise manner, with
constructors fields next to constructors.
- Display generic parameters, if any, next to the type
- Plus some minor color and icon rework.
There are restrictions regarding how modules are called, but given that packages are tight to repositories anyway; there's no way someone can publish and use an aiken package on 'aiken-lang' without being part of the organization. So the restriction on the command-line is pointless. Plus, it prevents us from using 'aiken-lang' as a placeholder name for tutorials.
This makes it easier to add new dependencies, without having to
manually edit the `aiken.toml` file.
The command is accessible via two different paths:
- aiken deps add
or simply
- aiken add
for this is quite common to find at the top-level of the command-line,
and, we still want to keep commands for managing dependencies grouped
under a command sub-group and not all at the top-level. So we're
merely promoting that one for visibility.
This is a bit cleaner, as the 'cmd/new' had many on-the-fly functions
which are better scoped inside this module.
Plus, it plays nicely with the std::str::FromStr trait definition.
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
```
## 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 -> // ...
│ }
│ }
```
KtorZ