We never released 1.0.30, so it's a bit misleading to have an entry for it in the CHANGELOG. So I merged its content with the ongoing release which is likely to be 1.1.0
- Doesn't allow pattern-matching on G1/G2 elements and strings,
because the use cases for those is unclear and it adds complexity to
the feature.
- We still _parse_ patterns on G1/G2 elements and strings, but emit an
error in those cases.
- The syntax is the same as for bytearray literals (i.e. supports hex,
utf-8 strings or plain arrays of bytes).
This is mainly a syntactic trick/sugar, but it's been pretty annoying
to me for a while that we can't simply pattern-match/destructure
single-variant constructors directly from the args list. A classic
example is when writing property tests:
```ak
test foo(params via both(bytearray(), int())) {
let (bytes, ix) = params
...
}
```
Now can be replaced simply with:
```
test foo((bytes, ix) via both(bytearray(), int())) {
...
}
```
If feels natural, especially coming from the JavaScript, Haskell or
Rust worlds and is mostly convenient. Behind the scene, the compiler
does nothing more than re-writing the AST as the first form, with
pre-generated arg names. Then, we fully rely on the existing
type-checking capabilities and thus, works in a seamless way as if we
were just pattern matching inline.
I slightly altered the way we parse import definitions to ensure we
merge imports from the same modules (that aren't aliased) together.
This prevents an annoying warning with duplicated import lines and
makes it just more convenient overall.
As a trade-off, we can no longer interleave import definitions with
other definitions. This should be a minor setback only since the
formatter was already ensuring that all import definitions would be
grouped at the top.
---
Note that, I originally attempted to implement this in the formatter
instead of the parser. As it felt more appropriate there. However, the
formatter operates on (unmutable) borrowed definitions, which makes it
annoyingly hard to perform any AST manipulations. The `Document`
returns by the format carries a lifetime that prevents the creation of
intermediate local values.
So instead, slightly tweaking the parser felt like the right thing to
do.
While we agree on the idea of having some ways of emitting events, the
design hasn't been completely fleshed out and it is unclear whether
events should have a well-defined format independent of the framework
/ compiler and what this format should be.
So we need more time discussing and agreeing about what use case we
are actually trying to solve with that.
Irrespective of that, some cleanup was also needed on the UPLC side
anyway since the PR introduced a lot of needless duplications.
This is more holistic and less awkward than having monadic bind working only with some pre-defined type. Backpassing work with _any_ function, and can be implemented relatively easily by rewriting the AST on-the-fly.
Also, it is far easier to explain than trying to explain what a monadic bind is, how its behavior differs from type to type and why it isn't generally available for any monadic type.
We've been wrongly representing large ints as BigInt, causing them to
behave differently in the VM through builtins like 'serialise_data'.
Indeed, we expect anything that fits in 8 bytes to be encoded as Major
Type 0 or 1. But we were switching to encoding as Major type 6
(tagged, PosBigInt, NegBigInt) for much smaller values! Anything
outside of the range [-2^32, 2^32-1] would be treated as big int
(positive or negative).
Why? Because we checked whether a value i would fit in an i64, and if
it didn't we treated it as big int. But the reality is more subtle...
Fortunately, Rust has i128 and the minicbor library implements TryFrom
which enforces that the value fits in a range of [-2^64, 2^64 - 1], so
we're back on track easily.
- do not erase sequences if the sole expression is an assignment
- emit parse error if an assignment is assigned to an assignment
- do not allow assignments in logical op chains
KtorZ