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The current inferrence system walks expressions from "top to bottom".
Starting from definitions higher in the source file, and down. When a
call is encountered, we use the information known for the callee
definition we have at the moment it is inferred.
This causes interesting issues in the case where the callee doesn't
have annotations and in only partially known. For example:
```
pub fn list(fuzzer: Option<a>) -> Option<List<a>> {
inner(fuzzer, [])
}
fn inner(fuzzer, xs) -> Option<List<b>> {
when fuzzer is {
None -> Some(xs)
Some(x) -> Some([x, ..xs])
}
}
```
In this small program, we infer `list` first and run into `inner`.
Yet, the arguments for `inner` are not annotated, so since we haven't
inferred `inner` yet, we will create two unbound variables.
And naturally, we will link the type of `[]` to being of the same type
as `xs` -- which is still unbound at this point. The return type of
`inner` is given by the annotation, so all-in-all, the unification
will work without ever having to commit to a type of `[]`.
It is only later, when `inner` is inferred, that we will generalise
the unbound type of `xs` to a generic which the same as `b` in the
annotation. At this point, `[]` is also typed with this same generic,
which has a different id than `a` in `list` since it comes from
another type definition.
This is unfortunate and will cause issues down the line for the code
generation. The problem doesn't occur when `inner`'s arguments are
properly annotated or, when `inner` is actually inferred first.
Hence, I saw two possible avenues for fixing this problem:
1. Detect the presence of 'uncongruous generics' in definitions after
they've all been inferred, and raise a user error asking for more
annotations.
2. Infer definitions in dependency order, with definitions used in
other inferred first.
This commit does (2) (although it may still be a good idea to do (1)
eventually) since it offers a much better user experience. One way to
do (2) is to construct a dependency graph between function calls, and
ensure perform a topological sort.
Building such graph is, however, quite tricky as it requires walking
through the AST while maintaining scope etc. which is more-or-less
already what the inferrence step is doing; so it feels like double
work.
Thus instead, this commit tries to do a deep-first inferrence and
"pause" inferrence of definitions when encountering a call to fully
infer the callee first. To achieve this properly, we must ensure that
we do not infer the same definition again, so we "remember" already
inferred definitions in the environment now.
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README.md
A modern smart contract platform for Cardano
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For more information please see the user manual.
Contributing
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Note
The name comes from Howard Aiken, an American physicist and a pioneer in computing.
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