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Michael Gottesman
e6f1691122 [copy-operator] Add support for the copy operator in preparation for making consuming and borrowing no implicit copy.
Some notes:

1. I implemented this as a contextual keyword that can only apply directly to
lvalues. This ensures that we can still call functions called copy, define
variables named copy, etc. I added tests for both the c++ and swift-syntax based
parsers to validate this. So there shouldn't be any source breaks.

2. I did a little bit of type checker work to ensure that we do not treat
copy_expr's result as an lvalue. Otherwise, one could call mutating functions on
it or assign to it, which we do not want since the result of copy_value is

3. As expected, by creating a specific expr, I was able to have much greater
control of the SILGen codegen and thus eliminate extraneous copies and other
weirdness than if we used a function and had to go through SILGenApply.

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2023-05-17 22:42:42 -07:00