flan/test/programs/into.flan
Joseph Ferano c3319e6268 Review follow-ups: a leak is the program's, a wrong answer is not
Three things the review found, and the refusal it was right about.

The returned-Vec refusal is gone. It called a leak a dangle: the storage a
returned Vec owns outlives the expression, so the view reads what it says it
reads, and what is lost is the owner. (len (mk)) and (at (mk) 0) lose the same
owner and compile, spec-memory.md already says an overwritten global Vec leaks
its first block, and under a region there is nothing to leak at all. "We're
purposely doing manual memory management for the static side, so whatever."
The array refusal stays exactly as it is — that one is a view into a frame
that is gone and answers bytes the frame has since reused. Wrong answers are
the compiler's business and leaks are the program's, and both docs now draw
that line, because the two forms look alike.

The -1 sentinel was reachable from user syntax: (slice v 0 -1) answered the
whole Vec on both backends while (slice a 0 -1) was refused as a negative
bound. The refusal now runs on the bounds the reader wrote, before the
implicit hi is built — the only order that works, since the sentinel is itself
a -1 and a check on the finished pair would refuse (slice v). The
backwards-pair check moved into the branch where both ends are written.

The bounds seam is closed toward index_expr, and the tiebreaker is not which
half is older. indexed and vec_at both take their index through it, so
(at a c) over a u32 compiled where (slice a c) did not: the fork was between
slice and at as much as between two targets. A bound is a subscript.

Also an x86 row for vec.flan, so the new arity is pinned on both backends in
CI rather than by hand, and the comment columns the sweep shifted left in
slurp, into, format and algorithms.
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;;;; into — a fused transformation, and not a transducer.
;;;;
;;;; What is asserted here is the thing a unit test cannot see: the loop that
;;;; comes out is one loop, and the values it produces are the ones the chain
;;;; describes in the order it was written.
;;;;
;;;; 1. The order of the transforms is the order of the stages. (filter even?)
;;;; before (map double) is not the same program as after it, and both are
;;;; here with different answers.
;;;; 2. There is no intermediate collection. `pulls` counts every call to the
;;;; transform functions: one pass over the source is one call per element
;;;; per stage it reaches, and a chain that built a Vec per stage would pull
;;;; a different number.
;;;; 3. A source that is already a name is only read. `src` is a (Vec i32),
;;;; which is move-only, and it is still alive and freeable afterwards.
;;;; 4. A source that is a call is evaluated once, not once per element.
(defonce pulls i32 0)
(defn double [x i32] i32
(set pulls (+ pulls 1))
(* x 2))
(defn even? [x i32] bool
(set pulls (+ pulls 1))
(= (% x 2) 0))
(defonce builds i32 0)
;; A source that is a call. It must be made once, however many elements come
;; out of it. It borrows rather than allocating, which is the shape a call in
;; this position wants: the macro binds the value to a name the caller cannot
;; see, so an owning temporary here would be a leak nobody can reach.
(defn source [xs [i32]] [i32]
(set builds (+ builds 1))
(slice xs 0 (len xs)))
(defn wide [x i32] f32 (f32 x))
(defn bigf? [x f32] bool (> x 2.5))
(defn show [v [i32]] ()
(dotimes [i (len v)] (print (at v i)) (print " "))
(println ""))
(defn main [] i32
;; No transforms: a copy into the destination named in the form.
(let [xs [7 8 9]
v (into xs (vec-new i32))]
(show (slice v)) ; 7 8 9
(free v))
;; map then filter.
(let [xs [1 2 3 4 5 6]
v (into xs (vec-new i32) (map double) (filter even?))]
(show (slice v)) ; 2 4 6 8 10 12
(free v))
;; filter then map, over the same source: a different answer, because the
;; stages are in the order they were written.
(let [xs [1 2 3 4 5 6]
v (into xs (vec-new i32) (filter even?) (map double))]
(show (slice v)) ; 4 8 12
(free v))
;; One pass and no intermediate collection. The two chains above pulled
;; 6 doubles + 6 evens, then 6 evens + 3 doubles: 21.
(print pulls) (println "") ; 21
;; A name as the source is read, not moved: src is still alive here.
(let [src (into [3 1 2] (vec-new i32))
v (into src (vec-new i32) (map double))]
(show (slice v)) ; 6 2 4
(show (slice src)) ; 3 1 2
(free v)
(free src))
;; A type-changing map: the chain's element name is rebound at the new type
;; by each stage, and the push sees the destination's element type. One name,
;; shadowed — a let binding's value is checked before its name is bound, so
;; each stage reads the stage before it.
(let [xs [1 2 3 4]
v (into xs (vec-new f32) (map wide) (filter bigf?))]
(dotimes [i (len v)] (print (at v i)) (print " "))
(println "") ; 3 4
(free v))
;; A source that is a call is bound once, so it is made once however many
;; elements come out of it.
(let [xs [1 2 3 4]
v (into (source (slice xs 0 4)) (vec-new i32) (filter even?))]
(show (slice v)) ; 2 4
(free v))
(print builds) (println "") ; 1
0)