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Adds a structured representation of tree templates, with a lowering operation for turning them into Rust code. Thus, instead of generating the code directly inside the rule parser, we now create the internal AST, and then lower it into Rust code. This makes the boundary between parsing and code generation cleaner and easier to test.
Extends the previous work. We now explicitly split apart parsing of rules from lowering them into Rust code. There is some redundancy here -- a Pattern is basically the same as the Query that we eventually execute, but cleaning that up would introduce a lot of churn, so I've tried to leave it as-is for now.
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Captured groups containing nested repetitions can panic during macro expansion.
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What changed in this PR
Separates Yeast rewrite-rule parsing from code generation through an intermediate AST, making the syntax easier to extend.
Changes:
- Adds AST types and dedicated rule and template parsers.
- Moves Rust code generation into a separate lowering pass.
- Adds parser unit tests and enables full Rust syntax parsing.
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| shared/yeast-macros/src/template_parse.rs | Parses output templates into AST nodes. |
| shared/yeast-macros/src/rule_parse.rs | Parses patterns, guards, captures, and replacements. |
| shared/yeast-macros/src/parse.rs | Delegates macro entry points to parsing and lowering. |
| shared/yeast-macros/src/lower.rs | Generates Rust code from the AST. |
| shared/yeast-macros/src/lib.rs | Registers modules and updates query documentation. |
| shared/yeast-macros/src/ast.rs | Defines the intermediate AST. |
| shared/yeast-macros/Cargo.toml | Enables Syn’s full feature. |
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This is a weird pattern (that we don't use) that had weird semantics previously. A minimal example would be something like ``` ((item)* (separator))* @Items ``` Here, it's not really clear what @Items should be capturing. The current implementation (post-AST rewrite) simply panics at compile-time, with a message that may or may not be helpful. As the Copilot review correctly points out, this is a regression compared to the previous behaviour (which dealt with the issue by just throwing away the `(item)*` bit). This compiled, but I don't think the old behaviour is particularly sensible either. For that reason, we now explicitly warn that capturing a group containing a nested repetition is an error. At present, we never employ the above pattern in our code. If this changes, then we'll likely want to provide a sensible semantics for this case rather than just panicking.
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🔵 Needs a closer look
The macro-wide refactor has unresolved capture-binding regressions and requires human validation of syntax and expansion compatibility.
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| Pattern::Sequence(patterns) => Pattern::Sequence( | ||
| patterns | ||
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Currently we turn rewrite rules into Rust code directly inside the macros that parse the rules themselves. This makes it somewhat difficult to keep track of what's going on, and difficult to easily extend the syntax.
This PR splits code generation into two parts. First we parse the surface syntax into a (hopefully) sensible and intuitive AST representation. This representation is then lowered into Rust source code in a separate pass.
This also means we can now test each component separately, but in order to keep the PR somewhat small, I decided not to change the tests at this time. The existing end-to-end (observing the behaviour of the compiled rules) continue to work without issue.
The first commit takes care of the tree templates -- the output part of rules, whereas the second handles the patterns we match the input CST against (the "input" to a rule).
Worth noting is the fact that templates get lowered into raw Rust code for constructing the appropriate tree (which is not entirely trivial, due to the postfix
?operator for discarding entire subtrees if they contain interpolatedNones), whereas queries/patterns are interpreted at runtime. (Compiling these into static Rust code is not entirely straightforward due to things like backtracking, and in practice query interpretation is fast enough).This does mean there's a bit of awkwardness where patterns are concerned -- we parse them into an AST when handling the
rule!macro, and then map this to an essentially equivalentQueryAST for interpretation. I considered consolidating these two into a single structure, and it may be worth pursuing later, but it made it a lot harder to see what's going on in this PR, so I ultimately decided no to do it at this point.