aiken/crates/aiken-lang
KtorZ 53fb821b62
Use double-quotes for utf-8 bytearrays, and @"..." for string literals
The core observation is that **in the context of Aiken** (i.e. on-chain logic)
  people do not generally want to use String. Instead, they want
  bytearrays.

  So, it should be easy to produce bytearrays when needed and it should
  be the default. Before this commit, `"foo"` would parse as a `String`.
  Now, it parses as a `ByteArray`, whose bytes are the UTF-8 bytes
  encoding of "foo".

  Now, to make this change really "fool-proof", we now want to:

  - [ ] Emit a parse error if we parse a UTF-8 bytearray literal in
    place where we would expect a `String`. For example, `trace`,
    `error` and `todo` can only be followed by a `String`.

    So when we see something like:

    ```
    trace "foo"
    ```

    we know it's a mistake and we can suggest users to use:

    ```
    trace @"foo"
    ```

    instead.

  - [ ] Emit a warning if we ever see a bytearray literals UTF-8, which
    is either 56 or 64 character long and is a valid hexadecimal string.
    For example:

    ```
    let policy_id = "29d222ce763455e3d7a09a665ce554f00ac89d2e99a1a83d267170c6"
    ```

    This is _most certainly_ a mistake, as this generates a ByteArray of
    56 bytes, which is effectively the hex-encoding of the provided string.

    In this scenario, we want to warn the user and inform them they probably meant to use:

    ```
    let policy_id = #"29d222ce763455e3d7a09a665ce554f00ac89d2e99a1a83d267170c6"
    ```
2023-02-19 10:09:22 +01:00
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src Use double-quotes for utf-8 bytearrays, and @"..." for string literals 2023-02-19 10:09:22 +01:00
Cargo.toml Fix todo/error parser on when clauses. 2023-02-16 00:40:49 +01:00