VarPattern is today used to implement both 'let' and 'var' pattern bindings, so
today is already misleading. The reason why the name Var was chosen was done b/c
it is meant to represent a pattern that performs 'variable binding'. Given that
I am going to add a new 'inout' pattern binding to this, it makes sense to
give it now a better fitting name before I make things more confusing.
Also, give each class hierarchy at least 8 bits for the 'Kind' field.
In practice, no class hierarchy has more than 256 nodes, so this
optimizees code generation to make isa/dyn_cast faster.
This patch introduces a new kind of pattern for matching bool literals, i.e. true and false. Essentially, it is very similar to a pattern for matching enum elements, but simpler. Most of the code is just a boiler plate code copy/pasted from the code for enum element patterns. The only different thing is the emitBoolDispatch function, which emits a SIL code for matching bools.
With this patch, we don't get any false non-exhaustive switch diagnostics for switches on bools anymore. And we have a lot of radars complaining about it. For example rdar://16514545 and rdar://20130240.
Note, that this patch fixes the non-exhaustive switch diagnostics without changing the internal representation of bools. Implementing bool as an enum would have the same effect when it comes to these diagnostics and we would get this diagnostics fix for free, i.e. without any code committed here. But implementing bools-as-enums is an ongoing work and I'm investigating its performance implications. If we become confident that bool-as-enum does not have a negative impact on performance and decide to merge it, then we can revert this patch as it would not be necessary anymore. But if we decide to skip the enum-as-bool approach to its performance issues, then we would have at least fixed the false non-exhaustive diagnostics for bools by means of this patch.
Swift SVN r26650
This introduces a new pattern, spelled "x?" which is sugar for
matching ".Some(x)". It also changes the parser slightly so that
_ (the discard expr) is parsed as a unary expr instead of as an
expr. This allows it to have postfix ? after it, which is important
in pattern contexts to support "case _?:".
Swift SVN r25907
This allows them to appear in argument lists of functions, enabling behavior
like this:
func test_arguments(a : Int, var b : Int, let c : Int) {
a = 1 // ok (for now).
b = 2 // ok.
c = 3 // expected-error {{cannot assign to the result of this expression}}
}
Swift SVN r11746
We haven't fully updated references to union cases, and enums still are not
their own thing yet, but "oneof" is gone. Long live "union"!
Swift SVN r6783
We decided to go with 'var' as a distributive pattern introducer which applies to bare identifiers within the subpattern. For example, 'var (a, b)' and '(var a, var b)' would be equivalent patterns. To model this, give 'var' its own AST node with a subpattern and remove the introducer loc from NamedPattern.
Swift SVN r5824
I talked to John about parsing patterns today, and because of the magnitude of name-lookup-dependent ambiguities between patterns and expressions, we agreed that at least for a first-pass implementation it makes sense to parse patterns as extensions of the expr grammar and charge name binding with distinguishing patterns from expressions. This gets us out of needing the concept of an "unresolved pattern", at least in the short term.
Swift SVN r5808
Introduce Pattern subclasses for the 'is T', 'T(<pattern>)', and '<expr>' pattern syntaxes we'll be introducing for pattern-matching "switch" statements. Also add an 'UnresolvedCalLPattern' to act as an intermediate for name lookup to resolve to a nominal type, oneof element, or function call expression pattern. Since we'll need to be able to rewrite patterns like we do expressions, add setters to AST nodes that contain references to subpatterns. Implement some basic walking logic in places we search patterns for var decls, but punt on any more complex type-checking or SILGen derived from these nodes until we actually use them.
Swift SVN r5780
A function argument clause is now one or more patterns (which
must be parenthesized and explicitly type all positions) not
separated by arrows; the first arrow then separates off the
return type.
Revisions to language reference forthcoming.
Swift SVN r1099
