(** A live program: the declarations a running process was built from, plus every change accepted since. This is what makes an editor possible. [Check.program] builds a fresh environment from a declaration list on every call, which is exactly the property a session needs and the reason there is no scratch-environment machinery here: a form that fails to check leaves nothing behind, because nothing was mutated. The list is only replaced once the check has succeeded. Re-checking the whole program each time costs the whole frontend, which is under 10ms — less than the [llc] that follows it. Two things the session knows that no single evaluation could: - **which names the running process was built with.** A name it has is a symbol the loaded module binds to; a name it lacks goes through the by-name registry in runtime/flan_dev.c. Getting this wrong is silent: treating [print-line] as new gives it a registry cell nobody publishes, and the first call jumps to null. It has to come from the *checked* program, because [Check.program] prepends the prelude and no accumulated AST contains it. - **what the memory of that process looks like.** A cell is a bare pointer and carries no signature, so a redefined function whose parameters changed is called by every existing call site with the old ones — no link error, no trap, a wrong number. Struct fields and global types are the same class. Those are refused here, with the reason, rather than loaded. Not here, and deliberately: evaluating an expression. That is a separate primitive — synthesize a function around the form, call it, render the value — and it is not what redefining a name is. *) type t = { file : string; (* resolves an import's relative path *) mutable decls : Ast.decl list; (* post-Load: flat, one namespace *) mutable program : Tast.program; (* the last thing that checked *) host : Tast.program; (* what the process was built from *) } let fail = Loc.fail let create ~file = let l = Load.program ~file (Parse.program (Reader.read_file file)) in let p = Check.program l.Load.decls in ({ file; decls = l.Load.decls; program = p; host = p }, l) (* A name the running process exports. Everything else is looked up by name at install time — see [Emit.redefinition]'s [known]. *) let known t n = List.exists (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> String.equal f.Tast.name n) t.host.Tast.fns || List.exists (fun (g : Tast.global) -> String.equal g.Tast.gname n) t.host.Tast.globals (* ── What a running process cannot be told ─────────────────────────── *) (* Everything here is a change that would load cleanly and then be wrong. The house rule (NEXT.md, Watch for) says recognise it and refuse with the reason, so each one names what it would have broken. *) let compatible ~loc (old_ : Tast.program) (new_ : Tast.program) = let find_fn p n = List.find_opt (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> String.equal f.Tast.name n) p.Tast.fns in List.iter (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> match find_fn old_ f.Tast.name with | None -> () | Some g -> let same = List.length f.Tast.params = List.length g.Tast.params && List.for_all2 Types.equal f.Tast.params g.Tast.params && Types.equal f.Tast.ret g.Tast.ret in (* A cell holds a bare pointer. Every call site compiled before this change still passes the old arguments through it. *) if not same then fail loc "%s changes signature, from (Fn [%s] %s) to (Fn [%s] %s); \ the calls already compiled into the running program pass the old \ one. Restart to change it." f.Tast.name (String.concat " " (List.map Types.to_string g.Tast.params)) (Types.to_string g.Tast.ret) (String.concat " " (List.map Types.to_string f.Tast.params)) (Types.to_string f.Tast.ret)) new_.Tast.fns; List.iter (fun (g : Tast.global) -> match List.find_opt (fun (h : Tast.global) -> String.equal h.Tast.gname g.Tast.gname) old_.Tast.globals with | Some h when not (Types.equal g.Tast.gty h.Tast.gty) -> (* The storage exists and has a shape. Reusing it for another one reads fields at the wrong offsets; allocating fresh storage would silently discard the state the reload exists to preserve. *) fail loc "%s changes type, from %s to %s; the running program already laid \ that storage out. Restart to change it." g.Tast.gname (Types.to_string h.Tast.gty) (Types.to_string g.Tast.gty) | _ -> ()) new_.Tast.globals; List.iter (fun (s : Tast.structure) -> match List.find_opt (fun (r : Tast.structure) -> String.equal r.Tast.sname s.Tast.sname) old_.Tast.structs with | Some r -> let fields (x : Tast.structure) = List.map (fun (f : Tast.field) -> (f.Tast.fname, f.Tast.fty)) x.Tast.fields in let same = List.length s.Tast.fields = List.length r.Tast.fields && List.for_all2 (fun (an, at) (bn, bt) -> String.equal an bn && Types.equal at bt) (fields s) (fields r) in (* Every value of this type in the running program has the old layout, including ones held in globals that the reload is preserving. *) if not same then fail loc "%s changes layout; the values the running program is holding have \ the old one. Restart to change it." s.Tast.sname | None -> ()) new_.Tast.structs (* ── Accepting a change ────────────────────────────────────────────── *) (* The redefinition unit is a list of top-level forms, so this is one path for both editor commands: C-c C-c sends one form, C-c C-k sends a file. *) type change = { ir : string; (* the module to build and send *) names : string list; (* everything the forms declared *) fns : string list; (* the subset that has a body to install *) } let eval ?(origin = "") t src : change = let forms = Reader.read_all ~file:origin src in (* Through [Load] like any other source, so an evaluated (import ...) means what it means in a file. Its expansion is what gets spliced, which is also why the accumulated list is the post-Load one: re-evaluating a file that imports something would otherwise append a second copy of the import and the duplicate-name pass would reject it. *) let incoming = (Load.program ~file:t.file (Parse.program forms)).Load.decls in let loc = match incoming with d :: _ -> d.Ast.dloc | [] -> Loc.unknown in let names = List.filter_map Ast.declared_name incoming in let replacement n = List.find_opt (fun (d : Ast.decl) -> Ast.declared_name d = Some n) incoming in (* Replaced in place and appended only when genuinely new, so declaration order — which is emission order for globals — does not shuffle on every evaluation. *) let replaced = ref [] in let kept = List.map (fun (d : Ast.decl) -> match Ast.declared_name d with | Some n -> (match replacement n with | Some nd -> replaced := n :: !replaced; nd | None -> d) | None -> d) t.decls in let added = List.filter (fun (d : Ast.decl) -> match Ast.declared_name d with | Some n -> not (List.exists (String.equal n) !replaced) | None -> false) incoming in let decls = kept @ added in (* Nothing above this line has changed the session. A [Loc.Error] from here leaves it exactly as it was. *) let program = Check.program decls in compatible ~loc t.program program; let fns = List.filter (fun n -> List.exists (fun (f : Tast.fn) -> String.equal f.Tast.name n) program.Tast.fns) names in let ir = Emit.redefinition ~dev:true ~known:(known t) program ~fns in t.decls <- decls; t.program <- program; { ir; names; fns }