path: root/044space_surround.cc

//: So far you can have global variables by not setting default-space, and
//: local variables by setting default-space. You can isolate variables
//: between those extremes by creating 'surrounding' spaces.
//:
//: (Surrounding spaces are like lexical scopes in other languages.)

:(scenario surrounding_space)
# location 2 in space 1 (remember that locations 0 and 1 are reserved in all
# spaces) refers to the space surrounding the default space, here 20.
def main [
  # prepare default-space address
  10:num/alloc-id, 11:num <- copy 0, 1000
  # prepare default-space payload
  1000:num <- copy 0  # alloc id of payload
  1001:num <- copy 5  # length
  # prepare address of chained space
  20:num/alloc-id, 21:num <- copy 0, 2000
  # prepare payload of chained space
  2000:num <- copy 0  # alloc id of payload
  2001:num <- copy 5  # length
  # actual start of this recipe
  default-space:space <- copy 10:space
  #: later layers will explain the /names: property
  0:space/names:dummy <- copy 20:space/raw
  2:num <- copy 94
  2:num/space:1 <- copy 95
]
def dummy [  # just for the /names: property above
]
# chain space: 1000 + (alloc id) 1 + (length) 1
+mem: storing 0 in location 1002
+mem: storing 2000 in location 1003
# store to default space: 1000 + (alloc id) 1 + (length) 1 + (index) 2
+mem: storing 94 in location 1004
# store to chained space: (contents of location 1003) 2000 + (alloc id) 1 + (length) 1 + (index) 2
+mem: storing 95 in location 2004

//: If you think of a space as a collection of variables with a common
//: lifetime, surrounding allows managing shorter lifetimes inside a longer
//: one.

:(replace{} "int space_base(const reagent& x)")
int space_base(const reagent& x) {
  int base = current_call().default_space ? (current_call().default_space+/*skip alloc id*/1) : 0;
  return space_base(x, space_index(x), base);
}

int space_base(const reagent& x, int space_index, int base) {
  if (space_index == 0)
    return base;
  double chained_space_address = base+/*skip length*/1+/*skip alloc id of chaining slot*/1;
  double chained_space_base = get_or_insert(Memory, chained_space_address) + /*skip alloc id of chained space*/1;
  return space_base(x, space_index-1, chained_space_base);
}

int space_index(const reagent& x) {
  for (int i = 0;  i < SIZE(x.properties);  ++i) {
    if (x.properties.at(i).first == "space") {
      if (!x.properties.at(i).second || x.properties.at(i).second->right)
        raise << maybe(current_recipe_name()) << "/space metadata should take exactly one value in '" << x.original_string << "'\n" << end();
      return to_integer(x.properties.at(i).second->value);
    }
  }
  return 0;
}

:(scenario permit_space_as_variable_name)
def main [
  space:num <- copy 0
]