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feat: trait aliases #6431

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Resolves #6315

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michaeljklein and others added 6 commits November 1, 2024 14:54
…mpl's for trait aliases, wip implementing impl generator
…to-many case, modify parse_item_kind to return multiple ItemKind's, generate a trait impl from the trait parser (when the trait alias is parsed), test generated impl's, test several cases in unit tests
…issue with where clauses, add docs, cargo clippy/fmt
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@michaeljklein michaeljklein marked this pull request as ready for review November 6, 2024 20:26
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NoirTrait {
// Trait aliases:
// trait Foo<..> = A + B + E where ..;
let (bounds, where_clause, items, is_alias) = if self.eat_assign() {
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Optional: instead of desugaring a trait alias in the parser itself, we could introduce a new AST node for it (maybe TraitAlias) and desugar it later on, maybe in the Elaborator or collector. That way:

  • parsing is a bit simpler
  • desugaring can be tested independently
  • LSP or tools working with parsed code (like the formatter) don't need to know about how trait aliases are expanded, knowing that they need to skip the synthetic impl, and can focus on better handling this new node

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Oh, and it could be good to add a formatter test for this new syntax, to see if it works out of the box.

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I originally attempted to implement this by desugaring it in the Elaborator (based on the is_alias flag), but it was fairly complex to deal with post-parsing types.

  • Testing this approach seems a bit simpler since we can check ~equality up to spans between the parsed trait impl and the expected desugaring.

I suppose adding an is_synthetic: bool to NoirTraitImpl would be easy if that helps handling it in the LSP?

Sure, I'll add a formatter test for this 👍

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@asterite I've added is_synthetic: bool to NoirTraitImpl and formatter support for trait aliases, with tests for both.

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FYI @noir-lang/developerrelations on Noir doc changes.

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FYI @noir-lang/developerrelations on Noir doc changes.

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