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* 5001 - drop the :(scenario) DSLKartik Agaram2019-03-121-229/+321
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've been saying for a while[1][2][3] that adding extra abstractions makes things harder for newcomers, and adding new notations doubly so. And then I notice this DSL in my own backyard. Makes me feel like a hypocrite. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13565743#13570092 [2] https://lobste.rs/s/to8wpr/configuration_files_are_canary_warning [3] https://lobste.rs/s/mdmcdi/little_languages_by_jon_bentley_1986#c_3miuf2 The implementation of the DSL was also highly hacky: a) It was happening in the tangle/ tool, but was utterly unrelated to tangling layers. b) There were several persnickety constraints on the different kinds of lines and the specific order they were expected in. I kept finding bugs where the translator would silently do the wrong thing. Or the error messages sucked, and readers may be stuck looking at the generated code to figure out what happened. Fixing error messages would require a lot more code, which is one of my arguments against DSLs in the first place: they may be easy to implement, but they're hard to design to go with the grain of the underlying platform. They require lots of iteration. Is that effort worth prioritizing in this project? On the other hand, the DSL did make at least some readers' life easier, the ones who weren't immediately put off by having to learn a strange syntax. There were fewer quotes to parse, fewer backslash escapes. Anyway, since there are also people who dislike having to put up with strange syntaxes, we'll call that consideration a wash and tear this DSL out. --- This commit was sheer drudgery. Hopefully it won't need to be redone with a new DSL because I grow sick of backslashes.
* 4987 - support `browse_trace` tool in SubXKartik Agaram2019-02-251-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I've extracted it into a separate binary, independent of my Mu prototype. I also cleaned up my tracing layer to be a little nicer. Major improvements: - Realized that incremental tracing really ought to be the default. And to minimize printing traces to screen. - Finally figured out how to combine layers and call stack frames in a single dimension of depth. The answer: optimize for the experience of `browse_trace`. Instructions occupy a range of depths based on their call stack frame, and minor details of an instruction lie one level deeper in each case. Other than that, I spent some time adjusting levels everywhere to make `browse_trace` useful.
* 4466Kartik Agaram2018-08-031-6/+6
| | | | Why the heck was I using ints for OPEN/CLOSED in the first place?!
* 4223Kartik K. Agaram2018-03-141-2/+1
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* 3987Kartik K. Agaram2017-09-011-2/+2
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* 3811Kartik K. Agaram2017-04-041-1/+1
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* 3810Kartik K. Agaram2017-04-041-5/+5
| | | | | | | Stop naming 'jump' instructions in their errors since they're so often rewritten from 'break' or 'loop' instructions. Thanks Lakshman Swaminathan for running into this issue.
* 3742 - move instruction.old_name to a later layerKartik K. Agaram2017-02-061-15/+16
| | | | | | The drawback of this is that we forget to initialize old_name when we create instructions out of whole cloth in a few places. But this problem already existed..
* 3657 - better error messageKartik K. Agaram2016-11-101-3/+5
| | | | Thanks Ella Couch for reporting this.
* 3561Kartik K. Agaram2016-10-221-1/+1
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* 3549Kartik K. Agaram2016-10-221-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | More consistent definitions for jump targets and waypoints. 1. A label is a word starting with something other than a letter or digit or '$'. 2. A waypoint is a label that starts with '<' and ends with '>'. It has no restrictions. A recipe can define any number of waypoints, and recipes can have duplicate waypoints. 3. The special labels '{' and '}' can also be duplicated any number of times in a recipe. The only constraint on them is that they have to balance in any recipe. Every '{' must be followed by a matching '}'. 4. All other labels are 'jump targets'. You can't have duplicate jump targets in a recipe; that would make jumps ambiguous.
* 3522Kartik K. Agaram2016-10-191-3/+3
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* 3520Kartik K. Agaram2016-10-181-1/+0
| | | | | | | | Drop a few debug prints. Hopefully now we need never duplicate trace statements and can instead just dump them to screen. I'll soon need the ability to selectively dump traces for a specific label.
* 3381Kartik K. Agaram2016-09-171-3/+3
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* 3380Kartik K. Agaram2016-09-171-46/+46
| | | | | One more place we were missing expanding type abbreviations: inside container definitions.
* 3083Kartik K. Agaram2016-07-011-1/+1
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* 2990Kartik K. Agaram2016-05-201-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | Standardize quotes around reagents in error messages. I'm still sure there's issues. For example, the messages when type-checking 'copy'. I'm not putting quotes around them because in layer 60 I end up creating dilated reagents, and then it's a bit much to have quotes and (two kinds of) brackets. But I'm sure I'm doing that somewhere..
* 2931 - be explicit about making copiesKartik K. Agaram2016-05-061-1/+1
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* 2874Kartik K. Agaram2016-04-271-20/+20
| | | | | | Be more consistent that 'return' is the name of the instruction, and 'reply' just a synonym. Maybe I should take it out. It wouldn't affect the recipe/ingredient terminology while I teach..
* 2873 - fix a bug in converting conditional returnsKartik K. Agaram2016-04-271-0/+85
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was an interaction between two transforms. The first turned: return-if ... into: jump-unless ..., 1:offset # skip next instruction return ... The second added an unconditional return at the end of the recipe if it didn't already exist (so that functions always end with a return). However, it was getting confused by the return instructions generated above, which look unconditional but sometimes get skipped. To fix this, conditional returns are now transformed into this: { break-unless ... return ... } Since the final instruction is now no longer a reply (but rather the '}' label), the second transform triggers and adds the unconditional return after it. This commit removes the final place marked 'BUG:' in the codebase yesterday (see commit 2870).
* 2773 - switch to 'int'Kartik K. Agaram2016-03-131-8/+8
| | | | This should eradicate the issue of 2771.
* 2735 - define recipes using 'def'Kartik K. Agaram2016-03-081-17/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | I'm dropping all mention of 'recipe' terminology from the Readme. That way I hope to avoid further bike-shedding discussions while I very slowly decide on the right terminology with my students. I could be smarter in my error messages and use 'recipe' when code uses it and 'function' otherwise. But what about other words like ingredient? It would all add complexity that I'm not yet sure is worthwhile. But I do want separate experiences for veteran programmers reading about Mu on github and for people learning programming using Mu.
* 2712Kartik K. Agaram2016-02-261-4/+4
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* 2701 - turn some warnings into errorsKartik K. Agaram2016-02-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | I really have only one warning left: when somebody redefines a function. I think I'm going to just turn that into an error as well and drop the notion of warnings altogether. Anytime we find something wrong we stop running the program. This is a place where hygiene is justified.
* 2685Kartik K. Agaram2016-02-221-1/+1
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* 2681 - drop reagent types from reagent propertiesKartik K. Agaram2016-02-211-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All my attempts at staging this change failed with this humongous commit that took all day and involved debugging three monstrous bugs. Two of the bugs had to do with forgetting to check the type name in the implementation of shape-shifting recipes. Bug #2 in particular would cause core tests in layer 59 to fail -- only when I loaded up edit/! It got me to just hack directly on mu.cc until I figured out the cause (snapshot saved in mu.cc.modified). The problem turned out to be that I accidentally saved a type ingredient in the Type table during specialization. Now I know that that can be very bad. I've checked the traces for any stray type numbers (rather than names). I also found what might be a bug from last November (labeled TODO), but we'll verify after this commit.
* 2677Kartik K. Agaram2016-02-201-1/+1
| | | | Include type names in the type tree. Though we aren't using them yet.
* 2494Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-281-1/+1
| | | | | Some more structure to transforms, and flattening of dependencies between them.
* 2397Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-081-0/+1
| | | | | Fix that stray issue with a better phase ordering. Another thing I'm not testing.
* 2383 - new concern: idempotence of transformsKartik K. Agaram2015-11-061-1/+1
| | | | | I'd not paid any attention to it so far, but I need to do so from now on.
* 2382Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-061-0/+1
| | | | Starting to leave commented out prints again out of desperation.
* 2377 - stop using operator[] in mapKartik K. Agaram2015-11-061-16/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm still seeing all sorts of failures in turning on layer 11 of edit/, so I'm backing away and nailing down every culprit I run into. First up: stop accidentally inserting empty objects into maps during lookups. Commands run: $ sed -i 's/\(Recipe_ordinal\|Recipe\|Type_ordinal\|Type\|Memory\)\[\([^]]*\)\] = \(.*\);/put(\1, \2, \3);/' 0[1-9]* $ vi 075scenario_console.cc # manually fix up Memory[Memory[CONSOLE]] $ sed -i 's/\(Memory\)\[\([^]]*\)\]/get_or_insert(\1, \2)/' 0[1-9]* $ sed -i 's/\(Recipe_ordinal\|Type_ordinal\)\[\([^]]*\)\]/get(\1, \2)/' 0[1-9]* $ sed -i 's/\(Recipe\|Type\)\[\([^]]*\)\]/get(\1, \2)/' 0[1-9]* Now mu dies pretty quickly because of all the places I try to lookup a missing value.
* 2372Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-051-0/+4
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* 2360Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-041-3/+35
| | | | | | | | | More flailing around trying to come up with the right phase ordering. I've tried to narrow down each transform's constraints wrt transforms in previous layers. One issue that keeps biting me is the Type map containing empty records because of stray [] operations. That's gotta be important.
* 2358 - starting to tackle the phase ordering problemKartik K. Agaram2015-11-041-3/+2
| | | | | | | A new externality is starting to make its presence felt. Until I sort this out it's going to be hard to finish making duplex-list generic.
* 2349Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-021-19/+0
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* 2348Kartik K. Agaram2015-11-021-5/+5
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* 2321 - more preparations for static dispatchKartik K. Agaram2015-10-291-29/+22
| | | | | Deduce operation id from name during transform rather than load, so that earlier transforms have a chance to modify the name.
* 2311Kartik K. Agaram2015-10-291-55/+55
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* 2277 - reagents now have a tree of typesKartik K. Agaram2015-10-251-1/+1
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* 2258 - separate warnings from errorsKartik K. Agaram2015-10-061-10/+10
| | | | | | | At the lowest level I'm reluctantly starting to see the need for errors that stop the program in its tracks. Only way to avoid memory corruption and security issues. But beyond that core I still want to be as lenient as possible at higher levels of abstraction.
* 2226 - standardize warning formatKartik K. Agaram2015-10-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | Always show recipe name where error occurred. But don't show internal 'interactive' name for sandboxes, that's just confusing. What started out as warnings are now ossifying into errors that halt all execution. Is this how things went with C and Unix as well?
* 2199 - stop printing numbers in scientific notationKartik K. Agaram2015-09-141-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | Turns out the default format for printing floating point numbers is neither 'scientific' nor 'fixed' even though those are the only two options offered. Reading the C++ standard I found out that the default (modulo locale changes) is basically the same as the printf "%g" format. And "%g" is basically the shorter of: a) %f with trailing zeros trimmed b) %e So we'll just do %f and trim trailing zeros.
* 2137Kartik K. Agaram2015-09-031-1/+0
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* 2095Kartik K. Agaram2015-08-281-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | Finally terminate the experiment of keeping debug prints around. I'm also going to give up on maintaining counts. What we really need is two kinds of tracing: a) For tests, just the domain-specific facts, organized by labels. b) For debugging, just transient dumps to stdout. b) only works if stdout is clean by default. Hmm, I think this means 'stash' should be the transient kind of trace.
* 2075Kartik K. Agaram2015-08-241-0/+16
| | | | Thanks Caleb Couch for bugfixes 2072-2075.
* 2043Kartik K. Agaram2015-08-201-1/+1
| | | | | Traces were changing based on whether I was loading a .mu file with 'main' or not.
* 1962Kartik K. Agaram2015-08-091-2/+2
| | | | Standardize test names.
* 1868 - start using naked literals everywhereKartik K. Agaram2015-07-281-38/+38
| | | | First step to reducing typing burden. Next step: inferring types.
* 1847Kartik K. Agaram2015-07-251-2/+2
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