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author | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-08-22 22:10:02 -0700 |
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committer | Kartik K. Agaram <vc@akkartik.com> | 2021-08-22 22:10:02 -0700 |
commit | 791a71e27eb7a4c906c4454b6a49643a98662df6 (patch) | |
tree | a554b4a8b370f14e618e56f8229cad4951bb8f34 /linux/vocabulary.md | |
parent | ba4a3c5be70d473479e663be0400b798f88c113d (diff) | |
download | mu-791a71e27eb7a4c906c4454b6a49643a98662df6.tar.gz |
fix a long-standing bug in Mu's translator
While all test pass, this change is disquieting. When I first designed Mu I deliberately chose to exclude literal strings from most primitive instructions both for type-checking and to avoid silently passing through strange constructions. Nobody really needs to add a string to a number, and am I sure no SubX instruction will cause a memory safety issue when passed a string literal instead of a number? But clearly I have no tests encoding this desire. And any string literal could be replaced by an integer literal containing the exact same value, so what are we protecting against anyway. Let me fix the bug for now. If I run into problems I'll come back and do this right.
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