fix: Avoid issuing duplicate errors during interpreting#5341
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fix: Avoid issuing duplicate errors during interpreting#5341
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Spoke with Jake on this and we agreed to kick this can down the road a bit. We're going to fix the panics in builtins in a separate PR in the short term.
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To elaborate on this: our reasoning was that it feels a bit bad to throw away errors / information like this by replacing these existing errors with the SilentFail error kind. If we ever wanted a feature in the future which did need this dynamic checking we'd have to reimplement these errors any way. For now users will just have to live with a duplicate error if the comptime code they're interpreting also has a type error in it. |
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…eck (#5382) # Description ## Problem\* Resolves comment: #5341 (review) ## Summary\* Before this PR, we could panic if a builtin within a comptime block fails to type check, and is later executed by the interpreter. ## Additional Context ## Documentation\* Check one: - [x] No documentation needed. - [ ] Documentation included in this PR. - [ ] **[For Experimental Features]** Documentation to be submitted in a separate PR. # PR Checklist\* - [x] I have tested the changes locally. - [x] I have formatted the changes with [Prettier](https://prettier.io/) and/or `cargo fmt` on default settings.
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Description
Problem*
Summary*
The interpreter can issue duplicate errors if there were e.g. type errors that occurred within the comptime block being run.
For example:
Will give:
The first of which is a type error, and the second an interpreter error. Similarly, if we have a type error in some builtin methods like
slice_push_back, these will lead to panics in the interpreter which assume errors will already be caught during type checking (they are caught, but the interpreter is still run on this code afterwards anyway).To fix this, I've added a
SilentFailerror variant to avoid issuing these errors that are expected to be caught by the type system already.Additional Context
The interpreter is still run even on code that previously errored since it is difficult to track for a given block if any code reachable from it has errored.
One alternative could be to only run the interpreter if there has been zero errors in the whole program so far. I'm open to discussion here.
Documentation*
Check one:
PR Checklist*
cargo fmton default settings.