Sessions 56–69: declarative macro! with rep/zip/literal/block and
unhygienic var $name binders; partial field-move skip Drop; @[Release]
polish; LSP type hierarchy; CI Nim cache + lean macOS + Windows smoke.
Ship the QUALITY_PLAN stretch from ownership through ecosystem: C.1
lifetime elision (bootstrap + selfhost), bux fmt/test/doc CI hooks,
stdlib goldens, package registry (bux search/add), and LSP 0.4
position-sensitive locals with inferred let types. Full-tree format
pass plus Map/Set remove double-free fix.
Multi-field variants use Enum_Variant_Payload nested types (avoids tag name clash).
Sema resolves data.Variant.Variant_i; enum field types fully resolve tuples.
Selfhost parses full type exprs in enum payloads; emit structs/tuples before enums.
Example: examples/nested_patterns.bux (Pair::Two, Box::Val((a,c)), Shape::Dot).
Blocks can yield a value: last expression statement is the result.
Match arms accept block bodies, so multi-statement arms work:
match n {
1 => { let a = 10; a + 1 },
_ => 0
}
Bootstrap: lowerBlock(asExpr) lifts the trailing skExpr. Selfhost: parse
{...} as ekBlock, emit __blk_N yield temps (retTypeKind -2), and treat
only non-empty strValue as match/block yield. Nested enum/struct pattern
bindings recurse in both compilers.
Example: match_block.bux. Selfhost-loop remains binary-identical.
Support destructuring in match arms:
- Tuple: (a, b) binds subject._0 / _1
- Struct: Point { x: px, y: py } and shorthand Point { x, y }
Bootstrap: matchPatternBindings for pkTuple/pkStruct; register local
tuple typedefs from function bodies. Selfhost: parse, Sema_BindPattern,
Lcx_PatternBindings with scope defines. Fix operator-overload path that
crashed when typeName was null after pattern binds.
Example: examples/struct_tuple_pat.bux. Selfhost-loop IDENTICAL.
Sessions 10–12 from QUALITY_PLAN:
- Pattern payload bindings (Some(value) => value) in bootstrap and selfhost
- Empty-param closures via || (tkPipePipe) with loop/return bodies
- Expression-form match: let x = match …; newline before arms
- f"…" string interpolation desugared to String_Concat + conversions
- Lexer preserves \{ \} for literal braces in f-strings
- Bootstrap fix: f"plain" strips the f prefix after escape processing
- Examples: pattern_matching, closure_control, match_let, string_interp
Selfhost-loop remains binary-identical; all examples and error goldens pass.
Lower match to if-else for literals, ranges, enum tags, and wildcards.
Fix bootstrap literal arms that always matched; port real arm AST/parser
and Lcx_LowerMatch to selfhost with last-expression return. Expand
pattern_matching example and add parse/use-after-move/double-mut golden
diagnostics. Selfhost-loop remains binary-identical.
Introduce fat function pointers (BuxFn {code, env}) so capturing closures
are heap-allocated per value in both bootstrap and selfhost. Expand
Array/Map/Set/String/Test/Result APIs, add proper tuple codegen and
error snippets with multi-char underlines, golden diagnostic tests, and
LSP diagnostics via buxc check.
- @[Release] disables borrow checking and bounds checking in the function
- --release passes -O3 -flto to the C compiler for optimized builds
- Selfhost loop still deterministic
- ast.bux: add isDrop field to Decl
- parser.bux: parse @[Drop] attribute and attach to struct Decls
- hir_lower.bux: auto-drop now looks for TypeName_Drop for any type
- Test: _test_drop_user verifies Buffer_Drop is auto-called
- parser: extend-for only linked first 2 methods; now uses lastMethod pointer
- sema: trait bounds checking was after indirect-call early return (tyFunc path),
so Max<Circle>(...) skipped bounds check when callee had tekFunc refType.
Moved bounds check before both indirect/direct call returns.
- Negative test: Circle without Comparable impl now correctly errors.
- Selfhost loop: C output IDENTICAL.
- Fix nested Lcx_GenerateStructInstance overwriting parent slot by
incrementing structCount BEFORE field processing
- Fix Lcx_LowerModule to skip generic structs from hm.structs (was missing
continue due to bootstrap compiler codegen limitation)
- Fix C backend to forward-declare ALL structs at top, removing second
generic-only forward declaration section that came too late
- Add empty-name guard in CBE_EmitStructDef
- Import system: parser supports ::* glob imports, sema two-pass resolution
- Add on-demand generic function/struct monomorphization in HIR lower
- Lcx_SubstituteType: substitute type params and mangle names (e.g. Array<int> -> Array_int)
- Lcx_GenerateFuncInstance: clone generic func with active substitution
- Lcx_GenerateStructInstance: create concrete struct definitions
- Detect generic calls (ekCall) and struct inits (ekStructInit)
- Parser: propagate generic type args from ident to ekStructInit node
- Fix duplicate HIR constant: hIndexPtr and hCall both had value 18,
causing index expressions to emit as comma expressions in C backend
- Implement collection-based for-in desugaring:
for x in arr { body } -> __iter = Array_Iter_T(&arr);
while Iter_HasNext_T(&__iter) { x = Iter_Next_T(&__iter); body }
Selfhost loop remains deterministic. All golden tests and examples pass.
- Parser: add parseRange for selfhost (.. / ..=)
- Sema: determine loop variable type from range bounds
- HIR Lower: desugar range for-in to while loop with counter
- Bootstrap sema: fix range-based for variable type (was unknown)
- Selfhost loop remains deterministic
Implement MVP closures — anonymous functions without captures.
Syntax:
|a: int, b: int| -> int { return a + b; }
Changes:
- ast.bux + ast.nim: add ekClosure AST node
- parser.bux + parser.nim: parse |params| -> Ret { body }
- sema.bux + sema.nim: type-check closure params/body, return tyFunc
- hir_lower.bux + hir_lower.nim: generate __closure_N function + hAddrOf
- lir_c_backend.nim: fix function-pointer variable declaration (cParamDecl)
- C backend: closures compile to global functions with unique names
Test: _test_closure/src/Main.bux
- Closure as variable
- Closure passed to higher-order function
- Address of named function as function pointer
Both bootstrap and selfhost compilers build and pass the test.
- Add tekRef and tekMutRef to TypeExpr enum (ast.bux)
- Parse &T and &mut T in parserParseType, before *T handling (parser.bux)
- Map tekRef/tekMutRef to tyPointer in HIR lowering (hir_lower.bux)
- Both emit as T* in C backend (same as raw pointer)
- Borrow checker rejects write-through-pointer in @[Checked] functions
for all pointer types (safe default)
- Add isChecked field to Decl struct (ast.bux)
- Parse @[Checked] attribute in parserParseDecl (parser.bux)
- Add checkedFunc flag and movedVars to Sema struct (sema.bux)
- Enable borrow checking per-function in Sema_Analyze
- Reject assignment through raw pointer (*T) in @[Checked] functions
- Skip newlines between @[Checked] attribute and the declaration keyword
to avoid parser seeing the attribute and function as separate decls
Add golden tests for: structs, generics, algebraic_enums, enums,
methods, strings. Each test captures the expected C output from the
bootstrap compiler for regression detection.
Also remove leftover 'PARSER FIX V2 ACTIVE' debug print from parser.bux.
- Remove DEBUG prints from c_backend.bux, hir_lower.bux, lexer.bux, parser.bux
- Remove HACK for stray } in parserParseFuncDecl (no longer needed after
Decl refactor in 4a86009)
- Clean selfhost check/build output
- Replace Decl's 256 inline struct fields with dynamic fields: *StructField
array to avoid parser field limit truncation and name shifts.
- Update parser.bux and hir_lower.bux to use decl.fields[i].
- Fix uninitialized Symbol.refType in three stack-allocated Symbol sites:
loopSym (for-loop iterator), vSym (enum variants), and HIR param sym.
Garbage refType values (e.g. 0xFF) were leaking into scope tables,
later copied to expr->refType, causing SIGSEGV in Lcx_LowerExpr.
- Add tekFunc AST node and TypeExprList linked list for params
- Parse func(T, U) -> R syntax in parser.bux
- Resolve tekFunc to tyFunc in sema.bux
- Track original TypeExpr via Symbol.refType for params/lets/consts/funcs
- Build C function-pointer type names in hir_lower.bux (Ret (*)(Params))
- Lower indirect calls through function-typed values as hCallIndirect
- Add CBE_CParamDecl helper in c_backend.bux to embed name inside (*)
- Emit hCallIndirect and function-pointer variable declarations
- _test_funcptr now builds and runs with selfhost buxc2
Bootstrap compiler:
- ast.nim: add exprCallArgNames to ekCall for named arg tracking
- parser.nim: detect name: value syntax in call args
- sema.nim: add resolveCallArgs helper that injects default values
for missing params and reorders named args into param order.
Parser already parsed default param values; sema now uses them.
Selfhost compiler:
- ast.bux: add defaultExpr to Param, argName to ExprList
- parser.bux: parse = defaultExpr in param list, detect name: value
syntax in call arguments
- sema.bux: add Sema_ResolveCallArgs with same logic as bootstrap
Tests:
- _test_named_params verifies defaults, named args, mixed positional+named,
and named args with defaults in both compilers.
All verifications pass: build, selfhost-loop, test-examples, test-golden.
- Add syntax
- Desugars to if-else chain in HIR lowering (both compilers)
- No new HIR/C backend nodes needed — reuses hIf/hBinary/hBlock
- Supports integer, char, and enum tag dispatch
- Case body can be single statement (no braces required)
- Add statement for function-level deferred execution
- Deferred expressions run in LIFO order on function exit (return or implicit)
- Bootstrap: desugar defers in hir_lower.nim (inject before return + end of func)
- Selfhost: emit defers in c_backend.bux via CEmitter defer stack
- Both: add tkDefer token, skDefer AST node, hDefer HIR node
- Parser, lexer, sema, token files updated in both bootstrap/ and src/
- Add String_IsNull and String_Offset wrappers in lib/String.bux
- Add bux_str_is_null and bux_str_offset runtime functions in rt/runtime.c
- Update String_Replace to use String_IsNull instead of String_Len(pos)==0
- Replace pointer-to-uint casts (as uint == 0, pointer arithmetic) across apps/
- Parser newline skipping fixes in src/parser.bux
The selfhost parser did not skip tkNewLine tokens inside expression parsing,
causing multi-line expressions (e.g. if conditions spanning lines with ||)
to be truncated. When parserParseBinaryPrec hit a newline it treated it as
an invalid primary, returning a malformed literal and leaving p.pos at the
newline. parserParseBlock then failed to find '{' and its depth-counter
fallback consumed far too many tokens, causing subsequent function bodies
to be parsed into the wrong AST nodes.
Fix: add newline skipping in parserParsePrimary, parserParseUnary, and
parserParseBinaryPrec, matching the bootstrap parser's skipNewlines() calls
in parseAnd/parseOr.
Also complete the variant cap raise from 8->9 in src/sema.bux (was already
done in ast.bux, parser.bux, hir_lower.bux).
parserParseImportDecl now skips tkNewLine tokens inside {..} blocks,
matching the bootstrap parser behavior. This fixes parsing of imports
with names on separate lines, e.g.:
import Std::String::{
String_Eq,
String_Len
};
Previously the parser failed because it expected tkIdent immediately
after { but encountered tkNewLine instead.
This workaround consumes a stray } that parserParseBlock sometimes leaves
behind, which was causing the module handler to exit early. With this fix,
the selfhost compiler (buxc2) can now compile the entire src/ project.
- buxc2 project build: 491 user + 310 stdlib = 801 decls, no sema errors
- make selfhost-loop: builds and runs both passes
- C compilation succeeds, resulting binary works
- ast.bux: Decl expanded with field0..field255, variant0..7, param0..8
- parser.bux: add parserParseUnary for correct unary precedence; handle tkDiscard statements; allow var without initializer (matching bootstrap); add diagCount bounds check in parserEmitDiag
- hir.bux: HirParam changed to pointers
- hir_lower.bux: full field chains for struct lowering
- c_backend.bux: hardened -> vs . field access; null checks in CBE_GetExprTypeName
- cli.bux: add -lcrypto to linker
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