diff --git a/TODO.org b/TODO.org
index eae50d2f..08a02ae2 100644
--- a/TODO.org
+++ b/TODO.org
@@ -590,10 +590,11 @@ method to a running program is an ordinary redefinition.
** CANCELLED Class features deferred, each with its reason
CLOSED: [2026-09-20]
Inheritance, multi-argument dispatch, =:before=/=:after=/=:around= and
-=call-next-method=, named-slot construction, unknown-slot checking, computed
-dispatch values. With single dispatch on literal values there is no specificity
-question, and inheritance or multiple dispatch would create one. Unknown-slot
-checking needs class-typed tracking the dyn side deliberately does not have.
+=call-next-method=, named-slot construction, compile-time unknown-slot checking,
+computed dispatch values. With single dispatch on literal values there is no
+specificity question, and inheritance or multiple dispatch would create one.
+Compile-time unknown-slot checking needs class-typed tracking the dyn side
+deliberately does not have; the runtime refuses an unknown slot instead.
** DONE update-instance-for-redefined-class, the user hook
CLOSED: [2026-09-25]
@@ -717,10 +718,10 @@ of !=.
* Checker
-** NEXT A dyn value takes .field and [:key]
-Decided 2026-09-26: on a dyn value, ~x.name~ / ~(.name x)~ reads ~(get x :name)~ and
-assigning it is ~(put x :name v)~ — a class slot or a map key; ~m[:k]~ indexes a dyn
-map as ~(get m :k)~, and assigning it puts.
+** DONE A dyn value takes .field and [:key]
+CLOSED: [2026-09-26]
+Assigning ~x.name~ or ~m[:k]~ is ~put~: a plain map gains the key, and a class
+instance refuses one its class does not declare, on read too, as ~get~ and ~put~ now do.
** DONE A slice from a C pointer, and a pointer cast
CLOSED: [2026-09-25]
@@ -1387,9 +1388,8 @@ CLOSED: [2026-09-20]
CLHS 4.3.6. Nothing is enumerated and no heap is walked — the
redefinition is constant time and each instance pays once, at its next touch.
Neither printer migrates, so a stale instance shows its old slots to the editor
-until something touches it. The registry is advisory: a key the class never
-declared is dropped by the next migration, which is data loss with no enforcement
-behind it.
+until something touches it. An instance holds only declared slots — get, put and
+set refuse any other key — so the migration's drop loses nothing a program wrote.
** WAIT A class registry keeps one slot list per class, not one per layout version
Decided 2026-09-25: waits for a case name-matching migration to the current list gets wrong.
diff --git a/docs/SBCL-REDEFINITION-NOTES.md b/docs/SBCL-REDEFINITION-NOTES.md
index d54b7533..7fb2acec 100644
--- a/docs/SBCL-REDEFINITION-NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/SBCL-REDEFINITION-NOTES.md
@@ -326,10 +326,9 @@ The CLOS answer would need, concretely:
Flan spelling of that hook is a generic function, e.g.
`(defmethod update-for-redefined point [p added discarded] ...)`, which fits
the dispatch mechanism that already exists.
-- A decision on whether `put` of an unknown slot stays legal. Today it is — a
- class instance is an open map, and TODO.org, "Class features deferred, each with
- its reason", already defers refusing an unknown slot at `(get p :z)`. If unknown slots stay legal, the registry's slot list is
- advisory and the whole update protocol is advisory with it.
+- A decision on whether `put` of an unknown slot stays legal. Decided
+ 2026-09-26: it does not; `get`, `put` and `set` refuse an unknown slot on an
+ instance at run time, so the registry's slot list is enforced.
This is a real, SBCL/CLOS-precedented design that Flan's runtime can actually
support. It is also a feature with no user yet, since redefinition on the dyn
diff --git a/lib/check.ml b/lib/check.ml
index 08dba0f0..0de974a6 100644
--- a/lib/check.ml
+++ b/lib/check.ml
@@ -5978,12 +5978,36 @@ and check_value ctx ?want (e : Ast.expr) : Tast.expr =
let v = check ctx ~want:Types.Dyn v in
expect ctx loc ~want
(rt loc Types.Unit "flan_dyn_slot_set" [ target; k; v; here loc ])
+ (* (set (.name x) v) on a dyn is (put x :name v): a class slot's declared
+ type is checked by put, and a map takes a key it did not hold. Not
+ [flan_dyn_slot_set], which refuses a plain map — .name reads either, so
+ assigning it writes either. The target is checked once, here. *)
+ | Ast.Set (Ast.Pfield (target, name), v) ->
+ let t = check_target ctx target in
+ if t.Tast.ty = Types.Dyn then begin
+ refuse_const_change ctx loc t;
+ let k = dyn_kw ctx loc name in
+ let v = check ctx ~want:Types.Dyn v in
+ expect ctx loc ~want
+ (rt loc Types.Unit "flan_dyn_map_put" [ t; k; v; here loc ])
+ end else begin
+ let p, pty = field_place ~store:true ctx loc target t name in
+ let v = check ctx ~want:pty v in
+ expect ctx loc ~want (mk loc Types.Unit (Tast.Set (p, v)))
+ end
| Ast.Set (p, v) ->
let p, pty = check_place ctx loc p in
let v = check ctx ~want:pty v in
expect ctx loc ~want (mk loc Types.Unit (Tast.Set (p, v)))
+ (* On a dyn, (.name x) is (get x :name) — the same call, so a missing key is
+ nil and a value that is not a map traps with get's own sentence. *)
| Ast.Field (target, name) ->
- let target, sname = struct_target ctx target in
+ let t = check_target ctx target in
+ if t.Tast.ty = Types.Dyn then
+ expect ctx loc ~want
+ (rt loc Types.Dyn "flan_dyn_get" [ t; dyn_kw ctx loc name; here loc ])
+ else
+ let target, sname = struct_of ctx target t in
let s = Option.get (fields_named ctx.env sname) in
(match Tast.field_index s name with
| None ->
@@ -9521,6 +9545,15 @@ and unknown_name : 'a. ?setting:bool -> ctx -> Loc.t -> string -> 'a =
else
Loc.failk "check/dot-access" loc ~notes
"unknown name %s — %s, and %s has no field %s" name how sn field
+ | None, Some Types.Dyn ->
+ let how =
+ if setting then Printf.sprintf "(set (.%s %s) ...)" field head
+ else Printf.sprintf "(.%s %s)" field head
+ in
+ Loc.failk "check/dot-access" loc
+ "unknown name %s — a dot is part of the name here, not field access. \
+ %s is dyn, and its :%s is reached with %s"
+ name head field how
| None, Some t ->
Loc.failk "check/dot-access" loc
"unknown name %s — a dot is part of the name here, not field access. \
@@ -9600,9 +9633,9 @@ and fields_named env n : Tast.structure option =
(* The target of [.field] is a struct or an untagged union, or one level of
pointer to one. The auto-deref is inserted here as a real node, so no
- backend re-derives it. *)
-and struct_target ctx (target : Ast.expr) : Tast.expr * string =
- let t = check_target ctx target in
+ backend re-derives it. The target comes checked, because every caller
+ looks first for a dyn, whose [.name] is a map entry and not a field. *)
+and struct_of ctx (target : Ast.expr) (t : Tast.expr) : Tast.expr * string =
let has n = fields_named ctx.env n <> None in
match t.Tast.ty with
| Types.Named n when has n -> t, n
@@ -9737,15 +9770,19 @@ and check_place ?(store = true) ctx loc (p : Ast.place) : Tast.place * Types.t =
| Some (ty, false) -> Tast.Pglobal name, ty
| None -> unknown_name ~setting:true ctx loc name)
| Ast.Pfield (target, name) ->
- let target, sname = struct_target ctx target in
- let s = Option.get (fields_named ctx.env sname) in
- (match Tast.field_index s name with
- | None ->
- Loc.failk "check/unknown-field" loc ~notes:(declared_note ctx.env sname)
- "%s has no field %s" (tyname loc (Types.Named sname)) name
- | Some i ->
- if store then Option.iter (refuse_const_place ctx.env loc) (const_reached target);
- Tast.Pfield (target, i), (List.nth s.Tast.fields i).Tast.fty)
+ let t = check_target ctx target in
+ if t.Tast.ty = Types.Dyn then begin
+ let x = match target.Ast.e with Ast.Var x -> x | _ -> "x" in
+ if Source.indented_at loc then
+ fail loc
+ "%s.%s is an entry of a dyn map, and has no address. Read it into \
+ a local: let v = %s.%s" x name x name
+ else
+ fail loc
+ "(.%s %s) is an entry of a dyn map, and has no address. Read it \
+ into a local: (let [v (.%s %s)] ...)" name x name x
+ end;
+ field_place ~store ctx loc target t name
| Ast.Pindex (target, idx) ->
let target = check_target ctx target in
(match target.Tast.ty with
@@ -9775,6 +9812,21 @@ and check_place ?(store = true) ctx loc (p : Ast.place) : Tast.place * Types.t =
"a class slot (get inst :slot) is written with set and has no address. \
Read it into a local with let"
+(* The dyn keyword [:name], for a dyn's [.name]. *)
+and dyn_kw ctx loc name = check ctx ~want:Types.Dyn { Ast.e = Ast.Kw name; loc }
+
+(* A struct field as a place, over a target already checked. *)
+and field_place ~store ctx loc target t name =
+ let target, sname = struct_of ctx target t in
+ let s = Option.get (fields_named ctx.env sname) in
+ match Tast.field_index s name with
+ | None ->
+ Loc.failk "check/unknown-field" loc ~notes:(declared_note ctx.env sname)
+ "%s has no field %s" (tyname loc (Types.Named sname)) name
+ | Some i ->
+ if store then Option.iter (refuse_const_place ctx.env loc) (const_reached target);
+ Tast.Pfield (target, i), (List.nth s.Tast.fields i).Tast.fty
+
(* An index or a slice bound that is a literal is known now, so it is an error
now rather than a trap later. Only literals: a [defconst] is a global in the
typed IR, not a folded constant, so [(at arr size)] still traps at runtime —
@@ -11890,8 +11942,8 @@ and named_call ?(qualified = false) ctx ~want loc name args =
stored under the key. *)
if target.Tast.ty = Types.Dyn then
expect ctx loc ~want
- (rt loc Types.Dyn "flan_dyn_map_get"
- [ target; check ctx ~want:Types.Dyn k ])
+ (rt loc Types.Dyn "flan_dyn_get"
+ [ target; check ctx ~want:Types.Dyn k; here loc ])
else begin
let kt, vt = map_kv loc "get" target.Tast.ty in
let k = check ctx ~want:kt k in
diff --git a/lib/classes.ml b/lib/classes.ml
index cc006999..f6ed51a8 100644
--- a/lib/classes.ml
+++ b/lib/classes.ml
@@ -185,9 +185,9 @@ let collect (decls : Ast.decl list) =
is what [class-of] answers and what a generic dispatches on.
Named-slot construction — the dyn twin of [(Cursor {.src s})], with an
- omitted slot meaning nil — is deferred, and so is refusing an unknown slot
- at [(get p :z)]. Both are recorded in TODO.org, "Class features deferred,
- each with its reason". *)
+ omitted slot meaning nil — is deferred (TODO.org, "Class features deferred,
+ each with its reason"). An unknown slot, [(get p :z)], is refused at run
+ time by the runtime's [trap_no_slot]. *)
let constructor n (slots : Ast.field list) loc : Ast.decl =
(* Two slots of one name would write one entry and read one value, and the
constructor would take two arguments for it. The duplicate parameter
diff --git a/lib/dev.ml b/lib/dev.ml
index 7bf0d8d6..4f078e5f 100644
--- a/lib/dev.ml
+++ b/lib/dev.ml
@@ -4590,10 +4590,19 @@ let rec handle t req =
match Wire.string_field req "syntax", Wire.string_field req "op",
Wire.string_field req "file" with
| (Some _ as s), _, _ -> Source.syntax_of_field s
- (* A whole file named with no [:syntax] is in the syntax its name says:
- that is not a guess, it is what [Source.read_file] would do. *)
- | None, Some "load-file", Some f when Source.is_indented f -> Source.Indented
- | None, _, _ -> Source.Paren
+ (* With no [:syntax], a file named is in the syntax its name says — what
+ [Source.read_file] would do — for every op, so code sent from a .fln
+ buffer by a client that left the field out is not read as parens. A
+ paren expansion sent back under a .fln name says [:syntax "paren"]. *)
+ | None, _, Some f when Source.is_source f ->
+ if Source.is_indented f then Source.Indented else Source.Paren
+ (* A pseudo-name — "", "", whose text is built in parens —
+ is paren. No file at all is the program's own syntax: evaluating in a
+ stopped frame names none, and its code is written as the program is. *)
+ | None, _, Some _ -> Source.Paren
+ | None, _, None ->
+ if Source.is_indented t.session.Session.file then Source.Indented
+ else Source.Paren
in
let at =
match Wire.int_field req "line", Wire.int_field req "col" with
diff --git a/lib/emit.ml b/lib/emit.ml
index ef173b09..3bef9108 100644
--- a/lib/emit.ml
+++ b/lib/emit.ml
@@ -5010,6 +5010,7 @@ declare void @flan_dyn_class_def(i64, ptr, i64)
declare void @flan_dyn_class_hook(ptr)
declare i64 @flan_dyn_kw(ptr, i64)
declare i64 @flan_dyn_map_get(i64, i64)
+declare i64 @flan_dyn_get(i64, i64, ptr, i64)
declare void @flan_dyn_map_set(i64, i64, i64)
declare i64 @flan_dyn_map_contains(i64, i64)
; The ones that trap carry the site as ptr+len, the way the bounds and
diff --git a/runtime/flan_dyn.c b/runtime/flan_dyn.c
index 8ef51d16..9208a601 100644
--- a/runtime/flan_dyn.c
+++ b/runtime/flan_dyn.c
@@ -1642,15 +1642,10 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_new(void) {
*
* **What the registry constrains.** A store into a slot the class declares
* — the constructor's, [put]'s, [set]'s — is checked against the slot's
- * type. A key the class does not declare is not refused by [put]: a class
- * instance is an open map — TODO.org, "Class features deferred, each with its
- * reason", defers unknown-slot checking — so a key nobody declared can be
- * written to one, and the migration below will *drop* it at the next
- * redefinition, because its rule is that an instance's keys are the class's
- * slots. That is real data loss and it is written down as such in TODO.org,
- * "A redefined defclass migrates its instances lazily", rather than dressed
- * up as enforcement. [set] does refuse an undeclared key, because a slot it
- * writes has to exist.
+ * type. A key the class does not declare is refused by [get], [put] and
+ * [set] alike ([trap_no_slot]), so an instance's keys are its class's slots
+ * and the migration below, which keeps only those, drops nothing a program
+ * wrote.
*
* **Where a migration happens.** [want_map], so every [get], [put] and
* [has-key?]; [flan_dyn_len]'s map arm; and [dyn_equal]'s, so two instances
@@ -1995,6 +1990,10 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_vec_new(void);
flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_new(void);
void flan_dyn_push(flan_dyn v, flan_dyn x, const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen);
void flan_dyn_map_set(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v);
+flan_dyn flan_dyn_get(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, const uint8_t *loc,
+ int64_t loclen);
+void flan_dyn_map_put(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v, const uint8_t *loc,
+ int64_t loclen);
/* The user hook, run on an instance the name-matching has just brought up to
* date. [inst], [added] and [gone] are rooted by the caller.
@@ -3552,8 +3551,12 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_at(flan_dyn v, flan_dyn i, const uint8_t *loc,
int64_t loclen) {
int64_t k;
flan_obj *o;
+ /* m[:k] on a map is (get m :k), whatever the key: get's rule, nil when
+ * absent. */
+ if (is_map(v)) return flan_dyn_get(v, i, loc, loclen);
if (!is_text(v) && !is_vec(v))
- trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "at", "only a text or a vec is indexed", v, i);
+ trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "at", "only a text, a vec or a map is indexed",
+ v, i);
k = need_index(loc, loclen, "at", v, i);
o = dyn_obj(v);
if (o->kind == OBJ_VIEW) {
@@ -3600,8 +3603,14 @@ void flan_dyn_set_at(flan_dyn v, flan_dyn i, flan_dyn x, const uint8_t *loc,
if (is_text(v))
trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "set-at",
"a text is immutable — build another one", v, i);
+ /* Assigning m[:k] is (put m :k x), a class slot's type check with it. */
+ if (is_map(v)) {
+ flan_dyn_map_put(v, i, x, loc, loclen);
+ return;
+ }
if (!is_vec(v))
- trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "set-at", "only a vec is assigned into", v, i);
+ trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "set-at",
+ "only a vec or a map is assigned into", v, i);
k = need_index(loc, loclen, "set-at", v, i);
o = dyn_obj(v);
if (o->kind == OBJ_VIEW) {
@@ -3712,6 +3721,24 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_get(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k) {
return i < 0 ? flan_dyn_nil() : o->u.v.items[i * 2 + 1];
}
+/* A program's (get m k) and (.k m): the same, with the site a value that is
+ * not a map is refused at, and a key an instance's class does not declare
+ * refused rather than answered nil — [trap_no_slot]. */
+static class_entry *class_sync(flan_obj *o);
+static int64_t class_slot(class_entry *e, flan_dyn k);
+static _Noreturn void trap_no_slot(const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen,
+ const char *op, flan_obj *o,
+ class_entry *e, flan_dyn k);
+flan_dyn flan_dyn_get(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, const uint8_t *loc,
+ int64_t loclen) {
+ class_entry *e;
+ if (!is_map(m)) trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "get", "only a map answers it", m, k);
+ e = class_sync(dyn_obj(m));
+ if (e != NULL && class_slot(e, k) < 0)
+ trap_no_slot(loc, loclen, "get", dyn_obj(m), e, k);
+ return flan_dyn_map_get(m, k);
+}
+
flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_contains(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k) {
flan_obj *o = want_map("has-key?", m, k);
if (o->kind == OBJ_VIEW) {
@@ -3798,6 +3825,29 @@ static flan_dyn check_slot(const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen, int by,
static inline void map_store(flan_obj *o, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v);
+/* A key an instance's class does not declare, read or written. An instance
+ * has exactly its class's slots — a typo in a slot name is an error at the
+ * access and not a new key — so get, put and set all refuse one; a plain map
+ * takes any key. */
+static _Noreturn void trap_no_slot(const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen,
+ const char *op, flan_obj *o,
+ class_entry *e, flan_dyn k) {
+ char sk[SAY_MAX];
+ kw_entry *c = o->u.v.klass;
+ int64_t i;
+ say(sk, SAY_MAX, k);
+ said_len = 0;
+ said_add("dyn %s: %.*s has no slot %s. Its slots are", op, (int)c->len,
+ (const char *)(c + 1), sk);
+ if (e == NULL || e->nslots == 0) said_add(" none");
+ else
+ for (i = 0; i < e->nslots; i++)
+ said_add(" :%.*s", (int)e->slots[i]->len,
+ (const char *)(e->slots[i] + 1));
+ flan_say(loc, loclen, "%s", said_buf);
+ flan_trap((const uint8_t *)"DynType", 7);
+}
+
/* A constructor's stores: [flan_dyn_map_set]'s, with the refusal worded for
* the constructor call it happened inside rather than for a [put] nobody
* wrote, and placed at the slot's declaration. */
@@ -3812,8 +3862,7 @@ void flan_dyn_slot_init(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v,
* they are three different mistakes: the value is not a class instance at
* all (a map's entries are written with [put], which is where inserting a
* key is real); the key is not a slot the class declares; the value does not
- * fit the slot's type. The first two are why this is not [put]: a declared
- * slot always exists, so writing one is a store and never an insertion. */
+ * fit the slot's type. The first is why this is not [put]. */
void flan_dyn_slot_set(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v,
const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen) {
flan_obj *o;
@@ -3839,33 +3888,17 @@ void flan_dyn_slot_set(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v,
o = dyn_obj(m);
e = class_sync(o);
j = class_slot(e, k);
- if (j < 0) {
- char sk[SAY_MAX];
- kw_entry *c = o->u.v.klass;
- int64_t i;
- say(sk, SAY_MAX, k);
- said_len = 0;
- said_add("dyn set: %.*s has no slot %s. Its slots are",
- (int)c->len, (const char *)(c + 1), sk);
- if (e == NULL || e->nslots == 0) said_add(" none");
- else
- for (i = 0; i < e->nslots; i++)
- said_add(" :%.*s", (int)e->slots[i]->len,
- (const char *)(e->slots[i] + 1));
- said_add("; a key the class does not declare is added with put, not set");
- flan_say(loc, loclen, "%s", said_buf);
- flan_trap((const uint8_t *)"DynType", 7);
- }
+ if (j < 0) trap_no_slot(loc, loclen, "set", o, e, k);
if (!slot_admit(&e->types[j], v, &out))
trap_slot_type(loc, loclen, BY_SET, o, e, j, m, v);
map_store(o, k, out);
}
-void flan_dyn_map_put(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v, const uint8_t *loc,
- int64_t loclen) {
+static void map_put(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v, const uint8_t *loc,
+ int64_t loclen, int any_key) {
flan_obj *o;
class_entry *e;
- if (!is_map(m)) trap2(NULL, 0, TYPE_TRAP, "put", "only a map answers it", m, k);
+ if (!is_map(m)) trap2(loc, loclen, TYPE_TRAP, "put", "only a map answers it", m, k);
o = dyn_obj(m);
if (o->kind == OBJ_VIEW) {
const uint8_t *fty;
@@ -3874,14 +3907,24 @@ void flan_dyn_map_put(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v, const uint8_t *loc,
return;
}
e = class_sync(o);
+ if (!any_key && e != NULL && class_slot(e, k) < 0)
+ trap_no_slot(loc, loclen, "put", o, e, k);
/* A map with no class, and a class with no typed slot, stop at the test. */
if (e != NULL && e->typed) v = check_slot(loc, loclen, BY_PUT, o, e, m, k, v);
map_store(o, k, v);
}
-/* The same with no site: a map literal's stores, and test/dyn_ops.c. */
+/* A program's put, and the store under a dyn's [.k] and [:k]. */
+void flan_dyn_map_put(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v, const uint8_t *loc,
+ int64_t loclen) {
+ map_put(m, k, v, loc, loclen, 0);
+}
+
+/* With no site and any key: an untagged map literal's stores, and
+ * test/dyn_ops.c, which builds instances' odd states by hand. No program
+ * reaches an instance through it. */
void flan_dyn_map_set(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v) {
- flan_dyn_map_put(m, k, v, NULL, 0);
+ map_put(m, k, v, NULL, 0, 1);
}
/* The store under all three, with the instance already brought up to date. */
diff --git a/runtime/flan_dyn.h b/runtime/flan_dyn.h
index fb40211f..5e6a118b 100644
--- a/runtime/flan_dyn.h
+++ b/runtime/flan_dyn.h
@@ -156,10 +156,8 @@ flan_dyn flan_dyn_type_of(flan_dyn v);
* declares are dropped. The instance's identity is preserved throughout;
* this is CLHS 4.3.6, and [flan_dyn_class_hook] is its user hook.
*
- * The drop is unconditional, which is the honest cost of a class instance
- * being an open map: a key written by a raw [put] that the class never
- * declared is dropped by the next migration too. The registry describes the
- * class's intention and does not enforce it. */
+ * No key the class never declared can be there to drop: [get], [put] and
+ * [set] refuse one on an instance. */
void flan_dyn_class_def(flan_dyn name, const uint8_t *slots, int64_t n);
/* The body update-instance-for-redefined-class dispatches through, as a
@@ -244,6 +242,9 @@ void flan_dyn_push(flan_dyn v, flan_dyn x, const uint8_t *loc, int64_t loclen);
* to ask when nil might also be stored. [set] replaces the value of an equal
* key in place, so a key occurs once and insertion order is print order. */
flan_dyn flan_dyn_map_get(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k);
+/* [get]'s, and a dyn's [.field]: [flan_dyn_map_get] with a site. */
+flan_dyn flan_dyn_get(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, const uint8_t *loc,
+ int64_t loclen);
void flan_dyn_map_set(flan_dyn m, flan_dyn k, flan_dyn v);
/* [put]'s: [flan_dyn_map_set], with the site a typed class slot's refusal
* prints. */
diff --git a/spec-syntax.md b/spec-syntax.md
index b63d9b39..bda24f0a 100644
--- a/spec-syntax.md
+++ b/spec-syntax.md
@@ -172,6 +172,10 @@ Each item: the proposal, then the reason in one line.
one symbol. `test/programs/dev-rerun.flan:65` names a global
`.init-once.counter`; rename it. **Built**, without the rename: it prints and
reads back through the fallback, `defonce(.init-once.counter, i64, 7)`.
+- **On a dyn value, `x.name` is `(get x :name)` and `x.name = v` is
+ `(put x :name v)`**, for a class slot and a plain map's key alike; `m[:k]`
+ is `(get m :k)` and `m[:k] = v` puts. The paren spellings `(.name x)` and
+ `(at m :k)` mean the same. **Built.**
- **`and`, `or`, `not` are words**, since they are Flan's own names. **Built.**
- **Casts and type-taking builtins are calls:** `i32(x)`, `vec-new(u8)`,
`max-value(u8)`, `the([3 f32], [1 2 3.5])`. A pointer cast is the type
@@ -474,9 +478,11 @@ Each step lands on its own, with `dune test --root .` green.
space-padding in `flan--text-at` (`emacs/flan.el:2602-2622`), which breaks
significant indentation, with `:line`/`:col` fields; the reader seeds its
indent stack with that column. **Built** (also `load-file` and restart
- arguments; no `:syntax` means paren, except a `load-file` of a `.fln`
- file; several indented statements sent as one expression read as
- `(do …)`).
+ arguments; with no `:syntax` a request is read in the syntax of the
+ source `:file` it names, as paren under a pseudo-name such as ``,
+ and with no `:file` at all in the program's — so
+ evaluating in a stopped frame of a `.fln` program reads indented;
+ several indented statements sent as one expression read as `(do …)`).
5. **Emacs mode** for `.fln`:
- A top-level form runs from a column-0 line that isn't `else`, `elif`,
`on` or `restart` to just before the next one, minus trailing blank and
diff --git a/test/programs/dev-fln-dyn.fln b/test/programs/dev-fln-dyn.fln
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..aa66939b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/programs/dev-fln-dyn.fln
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+;; A dyn class instance in a .fln program, for code evaluated from its buffer:
+;; eval-expr reads the request's syntax, at a stop as well as at a park.
+import agent "vendor:agent"
+
+defclass(State, [paused bool step bool])
+
+once state = State(false, false)
+once go = false
+
+struct Missing(id: i32)
+
+fn boom() -> i64
+ restart-case
+ error(Missing{.id 1})
+ 0
+ restart carry-on()
+ -1
+
+fn main() -> i32
+ agent/start("/tmp/flan-dev-fln-dyn-fallback.sock")
+ for i in range(4000)
+ agent/wait(5)
+ if go
+ go = false
+ boom()
+ 0
diff --git a/test/programs/dyn-class-slots.flan b/test/programs/dyn-class-slots.flan
index 662d1ade..d5bb62d3 100644
--- a/test/programs/dyn-class-slots.flan
+++ b/test/programs/dyn-class-slots.flan
@@ -28,12 +28,9 @@
(println (get s :step))
(set (get s :tag) [1 2])
(println (get s :tag))
- ;; put reaches the same check for a declared slot, and still inserts a
- ;; key the class does not declare -- an instance is an open map to put.
+ ;; put reaches the same check for a declared slot.
(put s :speed 2.5)
- (put s :scratch 9)
(println (get s :speed))
- (println (get s :scratch))
(println (length s))
;; A typed caller boxes into the dyn parameter as any call does.
(set (get s :step) (twelve))
diff --git a/test/programs/dyn-class.flan b/test/programs/dyn-class.flan
index 87f9eeb4..9a5991d1 100644
--- a/test/programs/dyn-class.flan
+++ b/test/programs/dyn-class.flan
@@ -64,7 +64,9 @@
(println (get p :x))
(println (has-key? p :x))
(println (has-key? p :nothing))
- (println (get p :nothing))
+ ;; A key its class does not declare is refused on an instance; a plain
+ ;; map answers nil for one it lacks.
+ (println (get {:x 1} :nothing))
;; The shape tag, as a value. Every value can be asked; only an instance
;; answers with a name.
diff --git a/test/programs/dyn-field-trap.flan b/test/programs/dyn-field-trap.flan
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..9ae1150e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/programs/dyn-field-trap.flan
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+;;;; A dyn's .field and [:key] trap with get's and put's own sentences, one
+;;;; per run. The argument chooses which; the test asserts the line numbers.
+(defclass State [paused bool step bool])
+
+(defn as-dyn [d dyn] dyn d)
+
+(defn main [args [str]] i32
+ (let [which (if (> (length args) 1) (i32 (bytes->i64 (bytes-view (at args 1)))) 0)
+ s (State false false)
+ n (as-dyn 3)]
+ (println "before")
+ (cond
+ (= which 0) (println (.paused n))
+ (= which 1) (set (.paused s) 1)
+ (= which 2) (set (.paused n) true)
+ (= which 3) (set (at s :step) 2)
+ (= which 5) (set (.pasued s) true)
+ (= which 6) (println (.pasued s))
+ :else (println (at n :paused))))
+ 0)
diff --git a/test/programs/dyn-field-trap.fln b/test/programs/dyn-field-trap.fln
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bed59b9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/programs/dyn-field-trap.fln
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+;;;; A dyn's .field and [:key] trap with get's and put's own sentences, one
+;;;; per run. The argument chooses which; the test asserts the line numbers.
+defclass(State, [paused bool step bool])
+
+fn as-dyn(d) -> dyn = d
+
+fn main(args: [str]) -> i32
+ let which =
+ if length(args) > 1 then i32(bytes->i64(bytes-view(args[1]))) else 0
+ let s = State(false, false)
+ let n = as-dyn(3)
+ println("before")
+ if which == 0
+ println(n.paused)
+ elif which == 1
+ s.paused = 1
+ elif which == 2
+ n.paused = true
+ elif which == 3
+ s[:step] = 2
+ elif which == 5
+ s.pasued = true
+ elif which == 6
+ println(s.pasued)
+ else
+ println(n[:paused])
+ 0
diff --git a/test/programs/dyn-fields.flan b/test/programs/dyn-fields.flan
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8f48a9b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/programs/dyn-fields.flan
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+;;;; A dyn value's (.field x) and (at m :key): a read is get, a set is put.
+(defclass State [paused bool step bool])
+(defclass Pos [x y])
+(defclass Body [pos count items])
+
+(defonce state (State false false))
+
+(defn game-input [] ()
+ (when true
+ (set (.paused state) (not (.paused state)))))
+
+(defn pick [b dyn] dyn b)
+
+(defn main [] i32
+ (game-input)
+ (println (.paused state))
+ (game-input)
+ (println (.paused state))
+ (let [b (Body (Pos 1 2) 0 [10 20 30])]
+ (set (.count b) (+ (.count b) 1))
+ (++ (.count b))
+ (update (.count (pick b)) + 10)
+ (set (.x (.pos b)) 7)
+ (update (.y (.pos b)) * 10)
+ (set (at (.items b) 0) 11)
+ (update (at (.items b) 1) + 5)
+ (println (.count b) (.x (.pos b)) (.y (.pos b)) (at (.items b) 0) (at (.items b) 1))
+ (println (.missing {:a 1}) (= (.missing {:a 1}) (get {:a 1} :missing))))
+ (let [m {:hp 3}]
+ (set (.hp m) (- (.hp m) 1))
+ (set (at m :mp) 9)
+ (update (at m :mp) + 1)
+ (set (.name m) "slime")
+ (set (at m 1) :one)
+ (println (at m :hp) (.mp m) (at m :gone) (at m 1) m))
+ 0)
diff --git a/test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.fln b/test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.fln
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e36d11b8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.fln
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+;; A dyn value's .field and [:key]: a read is get, an assignment is put.
+
+defclass(State, [paused bool step bool])
+defclass(Pos, [x y])
+defclass(Body, [pos count items])
+
+once state = State(false, false)
+
+fn game-input() -> ()
+ if true
+ state.paused = not(state.paused)
+
+fn main() -> i32
+ game-input()
+ println(state.paused)
+ game-input()
+ println(state.paused)
+ let b = Body(Pos(1, 2), 0, [10 20 30])
+ b.count += 1
+ b.count += 1
+ b.pos.x = 7
+ b.pos.y *= 10
+ b.items[0] = 11
+ b.items[1] += 5
+ println(b.count, b.pos.x, b.pos.y, b.items[0], b.items[1])
+ let plain = {:a 1}
+ println(plain.missing)
+ let m = {:hp 3}
+ m.hp -= 1
+ m[:mp] = 9
+ m[:mp] += 1
+ m.name = "slime"
+ println(m[:hp], m.mp, m[:gone], m)
+ 0
diff --git a/test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.out b/test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.out
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..780925d7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.out
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+true
+false
+2 7 20 11 25
+nil
+2 10 nil {:hp 2 :mp 10 :name "slime"}
diff --git a/test/test_acceptance.ml b/test/test_acceptance.ml
index 25aaefb5..ea8e0e58 100644
--- a/test/test_acceptance.ml
+++ b/test/test_acceptance.ml
@@ -5652,13 +5652,12 @@ level "1"
(* Typed class slots and set on a slot: the stores that fit, then one
run per refusal. The constructor, put and set each check a declared
- slot's type, set refuses a slot the class does not declare and a
- value that is not an instance, and put still inserts an undeclared
- key. On both backends, because every one of these is a runtime call
+ slot's type, and set refuses a slot the class does not declare and a
+ value that is not an instance. On both backends, because every one of these is a runtime call
whose arguments the two emit separately. *)
let slots_out =
"#state{:pause false :step 3 :speed 1.5 :name \"sand\" :tag :x}\n\
- true\n-7\n[1 2]\n2.5\n9\n6\n12\n3.5\ntrue\n2\n:state\n"
+ true\n-7\n[1 2]\n2.5\n5\n12\n3.5\ntrue\n2\n:state\n"
in
outputs "dyn: typed class slots" "programs/dyn-class-slots.flan" slots_out;
outputs ~x86:true "dyn: typed class slots, --x86"
@@ -5688,8 +5687,7 @@ level "1"
is declared i32, and 5000000000 is not a value it holds \
exactly");
("3", "dyn-slot-trap.flan:17:19: dyn set: state has no slot :paws. \
- Its slots are :pause :step :tag; a key the class does not \
- declare is added with put, not set");
+ Its slots are :pause :step :tag");
("4", "dyn-slot-trap.flan:18:19: dyn set: (get m k) is a place only \
on a class instance, and this is a map with no class");
("5", "dyn-slot-trap.flan:19:28: dyn construct: the slot :owner of \
@@ -5701,6 +5699,73 @@ level "1"
slot_trap ();
slot_trap ~x86:true ();
+ (* A dyn's (.field x) and (at m :key) are get and put: a class slot, a
+ plain map's key, nil for one it lacks, and chained and compound forms
+ over both. The .fln spelling is test/syntax/handwritten/dynfields.fln. *)
+ let fields_out =
+ "true\nfalse\n12 7 20 11 25\nnil true\n\
+ 2 10 nil :one {:hp 2 :mp 10 :name \"slime\" 1 :one}\n"
+ in
+ outputs "dyn: .field and [:key]" "programs/dyn-fields.flan" fields_out;
+ outputs ~opt:"-O0" "dyn: .field and [:key], -O0" "programs/dyn-fields.flan"
+ fields_out;
+ outputs ~x86:true "dyn: .field and [:key], --x86" "programs/dyn-fields.flan"
+ fields_out;
+ outputs ~dev:true "dyn: .field and [:key], --dev" "programs/dyn-fields.flan"
+ fields_out;
+ (* Their refusals are get's, put's and at's own sentences, placed at the
+ access, in both syntaxes. *)
+ let field_trap ?x86 path rows =
+ let exe = compile ?x86 path in
+ List.iter
+ (fun (arg, want) ->
+ let code, text = run exe (Some arg) in
+ if code <> 134 || not (contains text want) then begin
+ incr failures;
+ Printf.printf
+ "FAIL dyn: a .field's refusal%s\n got: %S (exit %d)\n \
+ wanted: %S (exit 134)\n"
+ (match x86 with Some true -> ", --x86" | _ -> "")
+ text code want
+ end)
+ rows;
+ (try Sys.remove exe with Sys_error _ -> ())
+ in
+ (* 5 and 6 are a misspelt slot on a class instance, written and read:
+ refused naming the class and its slots, never a new key or a nil. *)
+ let field_rows (l0, l1, l2, l3, l4, l5, l6) =
+ [ ("0", l0 ^ ": dyn get: int and keyword, and only a map answers it — \
+ (get 3 :paused)");
+ ("1", l1 ^ ": dyn put: the slot :paused of State is declared bool, \
+ and this is int — (put #State{:paused false :step false} \
+ :paused 1)");
+ ("2", l2 ^ ": dyn put: int and keyword, and only a map answers it — \
+ (put 3 :paused)");
+ ("3", l3 ^ ": dyn put: the slot :step of State is declared bool, and \
+ this is int");
+ ("4", l4 ^ ": dyn at: int and keyword, and only a text, a vec or a \
+ map is indexed — (at 3 :paused)");
+ ("5", l5 ^ ": dyn put: State has no slot :pasued. Its slots are \
+ :paused :step");
+ ("6", l6 ^ ": dyn get: State has no slot :pasued. Its slots are \
+ :paused :step") ]
+ in
+ let flan_rows =
+ field_rows ("dyn-field-trap.flan:13:28", "dyn-field-trap.flan:14:19",
+ "dyn-field-trap.flan:15:19", "dyn-field-trap.flan:16:19",
+ "dyn-field-trap.flan:19:22", "dyn-field-trap.flan:17:19",
+ "dyn-field-trap.flan:18:28")
+ and fln_rows =
+ field_rows ("dyn-field-trap.fln:14:13", "dyn-field-trap.fln:16:5",
+ "dyn-field-trap.fln:18:5", "dyn-field-trap.fln:20:5",
+ "dyn-field-trap.fln:26:13", "dyn-field-trap.fln:22:5",
+ "dyn-field-trap.fln:24:13")
+ in
+ field_trap "programs/dyn-field-trap.flan" flan_rows;
+ field_trap ~x86:true "programs/dyn-field-trap.flan" flan_rows;
+ field_trap "programs/dyn-field-trap.fln" fln_rows;
+ field_trap ~x86:true "programs/dyn-field-trap.fln" fln_rows;
+
(* A numeric cast opening a dyn box — TODO.org, "A numeric cast opens a
dyn box". programs/dyn-cast.flan is one program because the three
behaviours are one story told in order: the same-kind casts print, the
diff --git a/test/test_dev.ml b/test/test_dev.ml
index a2287ce7..be21fb4e 100644
--- a/test/test_dev.ml
+++ b/test/test_dev.ml
@@ -7283,6 +7283,78 @@ let () =
List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ())
[ xsock2; xout2; msock; mout ];
+ (* ── Code from a .fln program, with no :syntax ──────────────────────
+ A request that leaves :syntax out is read in the syntax of the file it
+ names, and with no file — evaluating in a stopped frame names none —
+ in the program's. So a dyn instance's dot assignment evaluates from a
+ .fln buffer at a park and in the program's own stopped frame. *)
+ List.iter
+ (fun backend ->
+ let fsock = tmp ("flndyn" ^ backend ^ ".sock")
+ and fout = tmp ("flndyn" ^ backend ^ ".out") in
+ (try Sys.remove fsock with Sys_error _ -> ());
+ let ffd =
+ Unix.openfile fout [ Unix.O_WRONLY; Unix.O_CREAT; Unix.O_TRUNC ] 0o600
+ in
+ let fpid =
+ Unix.create_process flan
+ [| flan; "dev"; "programs/dev-fln-dyn.fln"; "-s"; fsock;
+ "--" ^ backend |]
+ Unix.stdin ffd Unix.stderr
+ in
+ Unix.close ffd;
+ if not (listening ~pid:fpid fsock) then begin
+ fail "the .fln dyn daemon (--%s) %s" backend !listen_why;
+ (try Unix.kill fpid Sys.sigkill with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ())
+ end
+ else begin
+ let c = connect fsock in
+ let ask ?frame code =
+ request c
+ (match frame with
+ | Some n ->
+ Printf.sprintf "(:op \"eval-expr\" :frame %d :code %s)" n
+ (Wire.quote code)
+ | None ->
+ Printf.sprintf
+ "(:op \"eval-expr\" :code %s :file \"programs/dev-fln-dyn.fln\")"
+ (Wire.quote code))
+ in
+ let answer r =
+ match Wire.string_field r "value" with
+ | Some v -> v
+ | None -> Option.value ~default:(status r) (Wire.string_field r "message")
+ in
+ let is ?frame what code want =
+ let a = answer (ask ?frame code) in
+ if a <> want then fail "--%s: %s answered %S, not %S" backend what a want
+ in
+ if not (await ~ms:20000 (fun () -> status (ask "1") = "ok")) then
+ fail "--%s: the .fln dyn program never took an expression" backend
+ else begin
+ is "a dot assignment from a .fln file" "state.paused = not(state.paused)" "()";
+ is "and a dot read" "state.paused" "true";
+ ignore (ask "go = true");
+ let stopped () =
+ match Wire.field (request c "(:op \"describe\")") "stopped" with
+ | Some { Form.v = Form.Sym "t"; _ } -> true
+ | _ -> false
+ in
+ if not (await ~ms:20000 stopped) then
+ fail "--%s: the .fln dyn program did not stop in boom" backend
+ else begin
+ is ~frame:0 "a dot assignment in a stopped frame"
+ "state.paused = not(state.paused)" "()";
+ is ~frame:0 "and a dot read there" "state.paused" "false"
+ end
+ end;
+ (try Unix.close c with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
+ (try Unix.kill fpid Sys.sigkill with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
+ (try ignore (Unix.waitpid [] fpid) with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ())
+ end;
+ List.iter (fun f -> try Sys.remove f with Sys_error _ -> ()) [ fsock; fout ])
+ [ "x86"; "llvm" ];
+
(* ── The dyn globals a park holds ─────────────────────────────────── *)
(* The banner a finished run prints says the globals are as it left them,
@@ -7418,6 +7490,22 @@ let () =
if read () <> "\"kept\"" then
fail "--%s: the global was not readable before any thunk ran: %S"
backend (read ());
+ (* A dyn's .field and [:key] are get and put in a thunk too. *)
+ List.iter
+ (fun (code, want) ->
+ let r =
+ request c
+ (Printf.sprintf
+ "(:op \"eval-expr\" :code %s \
+ :file \"programs/dev-dyn-global.flan\")"
+ (Wire.quote code))
+ in
+ if answer r <> want then
+ fail "--%s: %s answered %S (%s: %s), not %S" backend code
+ (answer r) (status r) (said r) want)
+ [ ("(.s config)", "\"kept\"");
+ ("(do (set (.n config) 5) (++ (.n config)) (.n config))", "6");
+ ("(do (set (at config :n) 1) (at config :n))", "1") ];
for cycle = 1 to 3 do
let r = churn () in
if status r <> "ok" then
@@ -9330,13 +9418,13 @@ let () =
(* ── A slot lost, and a second generation ──
[:y] goes. Nothing calls [area] after this: its method reads :y,
- which is now nil, and a generic that traps on a slot its class no
+ which is now refused, and a generic that traps on a slot its class no
longer has is the program being wrong rather than the migration. *)
let r = redefine "(defclass point [x z])" in
if status r <> "ok" then fail "removing a slot from a class: %s" (said r)
else begin
- holds "a lost slot reads as absent"
- "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :y) nil) 1 0)";
+ holds "a lost slot is absent"
+ "(if (has-key? (at instances 0) :y) 0 1)";
holds "a lost slot is gone from the count"
"(if (= (length (at instances 0)) 2) 1 0)";
holds "the slots either side of it are untouched"
@@ -9366,34 +9454,9 @@ let () =
"(if (= (type-of (at instances 1)) :point) 1 0)";
holds "and a kind for anything that is not an instance"
"(if (= (type-of (get (at instances 1) :w)) :nil) 1 0)"
- end;
-
- (* ── A definition that did not change ──
- Every C-c C-k re-runs a file's class definitions, and a generation
- bumped per registration rather than per *change* would migrate
- every instance in the program on every save. Here that would be
- visible: the value written below is put into a slot the class
- declares, and a spurious migration would keep it — so the
- discriminating half is the raw key on the line after, which a real
- migration drops and an ignored re-registration leaves alone. *)
- holds "a key written straight into an instance"
- "(do (put (at instances 0) :scratch 7) 1)";
- let r = redefine "(defclass point [x z w])" in
- if status r <> "ok" then fail "re-evaluating an unchanged class: %s" (said r)
- else
- holds "an unchanged definition migrates nothing"
- "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :scratch) 7) 1 0)";
- (* And the same key after a definition that *did* change, which is
- the advisory registry stated as a test rather than as a hope: a
- class instance is an open map, [put] accepts any key, and the next
- migration drops the ones the class does not declare. TODO.org, "A
- redefined defclass migrates its instances lazily", says so in as
- many words. *)
- let r = redefine "(defclass point [x z w q])" in
- if status r <> "ok" then fail "a fourth redefinition: %s" (said r)
- else
- holds "a migration drops a key the class never declared"
- "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :scratch) nil) 1 0)"
+ end
+ (* A definition that did not change migrates nothing: the hook block
+ below asks that with a method that would mark the instance. *)
end;
(try Unix.close c with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
(try Unix.kill mpid Sys.sigkill with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
@@ -9625,6 +9688,26 @@ let () =
if not (await warned) then
fail "%sno warning for a kept value that does not fit: %S" what
(output ())
+ end;
+ (* ── A definition that did not change ──
+ Every C-c C-k re-runs a file's class definitions, and one that
+ bumped the generation per registration rather than per change
+ would migrate every instance on every save. A method that marks
+ the instance says whether a migration ran: not for the same
+ definition again, and once for a changed one. *)
+ if defined "a method that marks the instance"
+ "(defmethod update-instance-for-redefined-class point \
+ [p added discarded] (set (get p :radius) 777) nil)"
+ && defined "the same definition again"
+ "(defclass point [x str radius z n i32 note str])"
+ then begin
+ holds "an unchanged definition migrates nothing"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :radius) 4) 1 0)";
+ if defined "a changed definition after it"
+ "(defclass point [x str radius z n i32 note str w])"
+ then
+ holds "a changed one runs the method"
+ "(if (= (get (at instances 0) :radius) 777) 1 0)"
end
end;
(try Unix.close c with Unix.Unix_error _ -> ());
diff --git a/test/test_dyn.ml b/test/test_dyn.ml
index a7d4f7ac..263bdc94 100644
--- a/test/test_dyn.ml
+++ b/test/test_dyn.ml
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ let () =
("atrange", "index 9 is out of bounds for text of length 2");
("atnegative", "index -1 is out of bounds");
("setattext", "a text is immutable");
- ("setatnotvec", "only a vec is assigned into");
+ ("setatnotvec", "only a vec or a map is assigned into");
("setatrange", "index 0 is out of bounds for vec of length 0");
("push", "only a vec is pushed to");
("needi64", "dyn i64: text");
diff --git a/test/test_flan.ml b/test/test_flan.ml
index ffcb80dc..6b853e5f 100644
--- a/test/test_flan.ml
+++ b/test/test_flan.ml
@@ -2863,6 +2863,12 @@ let () =
"(defstruct P [x i32]) (defn f [] i32 (let [p (P {.x 1})] (set (.x p) 2) (.x p)))";
rejects_check "a dotted head that is not a struct says what it is"
"(defn f [] i32 (let [n 1] n.x))" ~needle:"n is i32, which has no fields";
+ rejects_check "a dotted dyn head points to the accessor"
+ "(defn f [] i32 (let [s {:p 1}] (println s.p) 0))"
+ ~needle:"s is dyn, and its :p is reached with (.p s)";
+ rejects_check "and to the place in a set"
+ "(defn f [] i32 (let [s {:p 1}] (set s.p 2) 0))"
+ ~needle:"s is dyn, and its :p is reached with (set (.p s) ...)";
(* The fourth shape: nothing is bound under the head either, so the message
claims nothing about what q is — only that the dot is not the operator
the writer took it for. *)
diff --git a/web/index.html b/web/index.html
index e5395bb2..8fa15b52 100644
--- a/web/index.html
+++ b/web/index.html
@@ -700,7 +700,9 @@ program was edited elsewhere would not be worth having.
{:a 1 :b "two"} is a dyn map and [1 2 3] is a dyn vector.
get, put, has-key?, at and
length read and write them, the same names the typed
-Map and Vec answer to. A keyword is a value here rather
+Map and Vec answer to. (.hp m) is
+(get m :hp) and (at m :hp) is too; set on
+either is put. A keyword is a value here rather
than only a way to name an enum member: keywords are interned, so comparing two is
comparing two pointers.
@@ -724,10 +726,11 @@ for anything that is not an instance. type-of answers any value's
kind as a keyword — :nil, :bool, :int,
:float, :text, :vec, :map or
:keyword — and an instance's class name, so a class cannot be named
-after one of those kinds. The slots are map keys: get
-reads one, and set writes one, as in
-(set (get s :pause) true). put writes one too, and is
-also how a key the class does not declare is added.
+after one of those kinds. The slots are map keys: (.pause s)
+reads one, and (set (.pause s) true) writes one, checking its
+type. get and put do the same. A key the class does
+not declare is refused, so a misspelled slot stops the program at the line that
+misspelled it.
Dispatch comes in the two styles and they are one mechanism.
defgeneric dispatches on the class of the first argument, which is