Unfortunately, as documented in:
https://github.com/IntersectMBO/cardano-ledger/issues/4571
Some Option fields in the script context certificates are going to
remain set to None, at least until the next Hard fork. There's a risk
that people permanently lock their funds if they expect deposits on
registration credentials to ever be `Some`.
So, we introduce a special type that emulate an `Option` that can only
ever be `None`. We call it `Never` and it is the first type of this
kind (i.e. with constructors indexes not starting at 0).
This is not fully satisfactory as it pollutes a bit the prelude. Ideally, those functions should only be visible
and usable by the underlying trace code. But for now, we'll just go with it.
There's no reasons for this to be a property of only ArgName::Named to begin with. And now, with the extra indirection introduced for arg_name, it may leads to subtle issues when patterns args are used in validators.
This was somehow wrong and corrected by codegen later on, but we should be re-using the same generic id across an entire definition if the variable refers to the same element.
Temporarily using the 'specialize-dict-key' branch from the stdlib
which makes use of Pair where relevant. Once this is merged back into
'main' we should update the acceptance test toml files to keep getting
them automatically upgraded.
This commit also fixes an oversight in the reification of data-types
now properly distinguishing between pairs and 2-tuples.
Co-authored-by: Microproofs <kasey.white@cardanofoundation.org>
Before this commit, we would parse 'Pair' as a user-defined
data-types, and thus piggybacking on that whole record system. While
perhaps handy for some things, it's also semantically wrong and
induces a lot more complexity in codegen which now needs to
systematically distinguish every data-type access between pairs, and
others.
So it's better to have it as a separate expression, and handle it
similar to tuples (since it's fundamentally a 2-tuple with a special
serialization).
Before this commit, we would always show the 'declared form' of type aliases, with their generic, non-instantiated parameters. This now tries to unify the annotation with the underlying inferred type to provide even better alias pretty printing.
Using ByteArrays as vectors on-chain is a lot more efficient than relying on actul Data's list of values. From the Rust end, it doesn't change much as we were already manipulating vectors anyway.
Those end-to-end tests are useful. Both for controlling the behavior of the shrinker, but also to double check the reification of Plutus Data back into untyped expressions.
I had to work-around a few things to get opaque type and private types play nice. Also found a weird bug due to how we apply parameters after unique debruijn indexes have been also applied. A work-around is to re-intern the program.
True corresponds to Constr=1 and False corresponds to Constr=0; their position in the vector shall reflect that. Note that while this would in principle impact codegen for any other type, it doesn't for bool since we likely never looked up this type definition since it is well-known. It does now as the 'reify' function relies on this. Whoopsie.
microproofs