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Solomon
6e1118681d
make command signature parsing more strict (#14309)
# User-Facing Changes

The parser now errors on more invalid command signatures:

```nushell
# expected parameter or flag
def foo [ bar: int: ] {}

# expected type
def foo [ bar: =  ] {}
def foo [ bar: ] {}

# expected default value
def foo [ bar = ] {}
```
2024-11-18 08:01:52 +08:00
Douglas
f0cb2dafbb
Allow duration to be added to date (#14295)
# Description

Fixes #14294 - Turned out to be a whole lot easier than I expected, but
please double-check me on this, since it's an area I haven't been in
before.

# User-Facing Changes

Allow date to be added to a duration type.

# Tests + Formatting

Tests added:

* Duration + Date is allowed
* Duration - Date is not allowed
2024-11-14 10:07:37 +01:00
Justin Ma
e6f55da080
Bump to dev version 0.100.1 (#14328) 2024-11-14 10:04:39 +01:00
Justin Ma
c9409a2edb
Bump version to 0.100.0 (#14312)
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Bump version to `0.100.0`

# User-Facing Changes

The new release `v0.100.0` is coming...
2024-11-12 22:22:38 +02:00
Solomon
cc0259bbed
don't include import path in args to aliased external commands (#14231)
Fixes #13776

# User-Facing Changes

Arguments to aliased externals no longer include nested import paths:

```diff
module foo { export alias bar = ^echo }
use foo
foo bar baz
-bar baz
+baz
```
2024-11-06 07:40:29 -06:00
Solomon
23fba6d2ea
correctly parse table literals as lists (#14226)
# User-Facing Changes

Table literal arguments to list parameters are now correctly parsed:

```diff
def a [l: list<any>] { $l | to nuon }; a [[a]; [2]]
-[[a]]
+[[a]; [2]]
```
2024-11-06 07:36:56 -06:00
Ian Manske
9f09930834
Div, mod, and floor div overhaul (#14157)
# Description
Dividing two ints can currently return either an int or a float. Not
having a single return type for an operation between two types seems
problematic. Additionally, the type signature for division says that
dividing two ints returns only an int which does not match the current
implementation (it can also return a float). This PR changes division
between almost all types to return a float (except for `filesize /
number` or `duration / number`, since there are no float representations
for these types).

Currently, floor division between certain types is not implemented even
though the type signature allows it. Also, the current implementation of
floor division uses a combination of clamping and flooring rather than
simply performing floor division which this PR fixes. Additionally, the
signature was changed so that `int // float`, `float // int`, and `float
// float` now return float instead of int. This matches the automatic
float promotion in the rest of the operators (as well as how Python does
floor division which I think is the original inspiration).

Since regular division has always returned fractional values (and now
returns a float to reflect that), `mod` is now defined in terms of floor
division. That is, `D // d = q`, `D mod d = r`, and `D = d * q + r `.
This is just like the `%` operator in Python, which is also based off
floor division (at least for ints and floats). Additionally,
implementations missing from `mod`'s current type signature have been
added (`duration mod int` and `duration mod float`).

This PR also overhauls the overflow checking and errors for div, mod,
and floor div. If an operation overflows, it will now cause an error.

# User-Facing Changes
- Div now returns a float in most cases.
- Floor division now actually does floor division.
- Floor division now does automatic float promotion, returning a float
in more instances.
- Floor division now actually allows division with filesize and
durations as its type signature claimed.
- Mod is now defined and implemented in terms of floor division rather
than truncating division.
- Mod now actually allows filesize and durations as its type signature
claimed.
- Div, mod, and floor div now all have proper overflow checks.

## Examples

When the divisor and the dividend have the same sign, the quotient and
remainder will be the same as before. (Except that this PR will give
more accurate results, since it does not do an intermediate float
conversion). If the signs of the divisor and dividend are different,
then the results will be different, or rather actually correct.

Before:

```nu
let q = 8 // -3 # -3
let r = 8 mod -3 # 2
8 == $q * -3 + $r # false
```

After:

```nu
let q = 8 // -3 # -3
let r = 8 mod -3 # -1
8 == $q * -3 + $r # true
```


Before:

```nu
let q = -8 // 3 # -3
let r = -8 mod 3 # -2
-8 == $q * 3 + $r # false
```

After:

```nu
let q = -8 // 3 # -3
let r = -8 mod 3 # 1
-8 == $q * 3 + $r # true
```

# Tests + Formatting
Added a few tests.

# After Submitting
Probably update the docs.
2024-11-04 18:03:48 +01:00
Wind
0a2fb137af
don't run subcommand if it's surrounded with backtick quote (#14210)
# Description
Fixes: #14202
After looking into the issue, I think #13910 it's not good to cut the
span if it's in external argument.
This pr is somehow revert the change, and fix
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13431 in another way.

It introduce a new state named `State::BackTickQuote`, so if an external
arg include backtick quote, it enters the state, so backtick quote won't
be the body of a string.

# User-Facing Changes
### Before
```nushell
> ^echo `(echo aa)`
aa
> ^echo `"aa"`   # maybe it's not right to remove the inner quote.
aa
```
### After
```nushell
> ^echo `(echo aa)`
(echo aa)
> ^echo `"aa"`    # inner quote is keeped if there are backtick quote outside.
"aa"
```

# Tests + Formatting
Added 3 tests.
2024-10-31 16:13:05 +01:00
Alex Ionescu
79ea70d4ec
Fix quoting in to nuon and refactor quoting functions (#14180)
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This PR fixes the quoting and escaping of column names in `to nuon`.
Before the PR, column names with quotes inside them would get quoted,
but not escaped:

```nushell
> { 'a"b': 2 } | to nuon
{ "a"b": 2 }

> { 'a"b': 2 } | to nuon | from nuon
Error:   × error when loading nuon text
   ╭─[entry #1:1:27]
 1 │ { "a\"b": 2 } | to nuon | from nuon
   ·                           ────┬────
   ·                               ╰── could not load nuon text
   ╰────

Error:   × error when parsing nuon text
   ╭─[entry #1:1:27]
 1 │ { "a\"b": 2 } | to nuon | from nuon
   ·                           ────┬────
   ·                               ╰── could not parse nuon text
   ╰────

Error:   × error when parsing
   ╭────
 1 │ {"a"b": 2}
   ·          ┬
   ·          ╰── Unexpected end of code.
   ╰────

> [['a"b']; [2] [3]] | to nuon
[["a"b"]; [2], [3]]

> [['a"b']; [2] [3]] | to nuon | from nuon
Error:   × error when loading nuon text
   ╭─[entry #1:1:32]
 1 │ [['a"b']; [2] [3]] | to nuon | from nuon
   ·                                ────┬────
   ·                                    ╰── could not load nuon text
   ╰────

Error:   × error when parsing nuon text
   ╭─[entry #1:1:32]
 1 │ [['a"b']; [2] [3]] | to nuon | from nuon
   ·                                ────┬────
   ·                                    ╰── could not parse nuon text
   ╰────

Error:   × error when parsing
   ╭────
 1 │ [["a"b"]; [2], [3]]
   ·                   ┬
   ·                   ╰── Unexpected end of code.
   ╰────
```

After this PR, the quote is escaped properly:

```nushell
> { 'a"b': 2 } | to nuon
{ "a\"b": 2 }

> { 'a"b': 2 } | to nuon | from nuon
╭─────┬───╮
│ a"b │ 2 │
╰─────┴───╯

> [['a"b']; [2] [3]] | to nuon
[["a\"b"]; [2], [3]]

> [['a"b']; [2] [3]] | to nuon | from nuon
╭─────╮
│ a"b │
├─────┤
│   2 │
│   3 │
╰─────╯
```

The cause of the issue was that `to nuon` simply wrapped column names in
`'"'` instead of calling `escape_quote_string`.

As part of this change, I also moved the functions related to quoting
(`needs_quoting` and `escape_quote_string`) into `nu-utils`, since
previously they were defined in very ad-hoc places (and, in the case of
`escape_quote_string`, it was defined multiple times with the same
body!).

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`to nuon` now properly escapes quotes in column names.

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2024-10-29 07:43:26 -05:00
Solomon
3f75b6b371
error when closure param lists aren't terminated by | (#14095)
Fixes #13757, fixes #9562

# User-Facing Changes

- `unclosed |` is returned for malformed closure parameters:

```
{ |a }
```

- Parameter list closing pipes are highlighted as part of the closure
2024-10-22 10:40:45 -05:00
Kither
f3a1dfef95
Fix panic if tokens are placed after a redirection (#14035)
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fixes #13835

The `concat` function from `span.rs` assumes that two consecutive span
intervals must overlap. But when parsing `let` and `mut` expressions, we
call `parts_including_redirection` which chains two slices of span and
leads to the above condition not holding. So my solution here is to sort
them after chaining.


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2024-10-22 10:37:03 -05:00
Solomon
4968b6b9d0
fix error when exporting consts with type signatures in modules (#14118)
Fixes #14023

# Description

- Prevents "failed to find added variable" when modules export constants
  with type signatures:

```nushell
> module foo { export const bar: int = 2 }
Error: nu::parser::unknown_state

  × Internal error.
   ╭─[entry #1:1:21]
 1 │ module foo { export const bar: int = 2 }
   ·                     ─────────┬────────
   ·                              ╰── failed to find added variable
```

- Returns `name_is_builtin_var` errors for names with type signatures:

```nushell
> let env: string = "";
Error: nu::parser::name_is_builtin_var

  × `env` used as variable name.
   ╭─[entry #1:1:5]
 1 │ let env: string = "";
   ·     ─┬─
   ·      ╰── already a builtin variable
```
2024-10-22 11:54:31 +02:00
Darren Schroeder
7e055810b1 add like and not-like operators as synonyms for the regex operators =~ and !~ (#14072)
# Description

This PR adds `like` as a synonym for `=~` and `not-like` as a synonym
for `!~`. This is mainly a quality-of-life change to help those people
who think in sql.


![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a0b142cd-30c9-487d-b755-d6da0a0874ec)

closes #13261

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2024-10-20 23:12:57 +02:00
Solomon
b0427ca9ff run ensure_flag_arg_type for short flag values (#14074)
Closes #13654

# User-Facing Changes

- Short flags are now fully type-checked,
  including null and record signatures for literal arguments:

```nushell
def test [-v: record<l: int>] {};
test -v null # error
test -v {l: ""} # error

def test2 [-v: int] {};
let v = ""
test2 -v $v # error
```

- `polars unpivot` `--index`/`--on` and `into value --columns`
now accept `list` values
2024-10-20 23:12:57 +02:00
Stefan Holderbach
f061c9a30e
Bump to 0.99.2 (#14136) 2024-10-20 23:12:41 +02:00
Ian Manske
28b6db115a
Revert PRs for 0.99.1 patch (#14119)
# Description

Temporarily reverts PRs merged after the 0.99.1 bump.
2024-10-18 02:51:14 +00:00
Darren Schroeder
043d1ed9fb
add like and not-like operators as synonyms for the regex operators =~ and !~ (#14072)
# Description

This PR adds `like` as a synonym for `=~` and `not-like` as a synonym
for `!~`. This is mainly a quality-of-life change to help those people
who think in sql.


![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a0b142cd-30c9-487d-b755-d6da0a0874ec)

closes #13261

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2024-10-17 09:15:42 -05:00
Solomon
2eef42c6b9
run ensure_flag_arg_type for short flag values (#14074)
Closes #13654

# User-Facing Changes

- Short flags are now fully type-checked,
  including null and record signatures for literal arguments:

```nushell
def test [-v: record<l: int>] {};
test -v null # error
test -v {l: ""} # error

def test2 [-v: int] {};
let v = ""
test2 -v $v # error
```

- `polars unpivot` `--index`/`--on` and `into value --columns`
now accept `list` values
2024-10-16 21:25:17 -05:00
Devyn Cairns
59d6dee3b3
Bump to version 0.99.1 (#14100)
Post-release patch bump.
2024-10-16 21:23:37 -05:00
Jakub Žádník
91ff57faa7
Bump to version 0.99.0 (#14094)
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2024-10-15 22:01:08 +03:00
Solomon
df0a174802
fix unknown_command when parsing certain strings with equal signs (#14053)
# Description

Prevents errors when `=` is used before the end of:

- strings in lists/records (with a symbol adjacent to the quotes)
- raw strings

```
> ["=a"]
Error: nu::parser::unknown_command

  × Unknown command.
   ╭─[entry #9:1:1]
 1 │ ["=a"]
   · ───┬──
   ·    ╰── unknown command
   ╰────
```

```
> r#'=a'#
Error: nu::parser::unknown_command

  × Unknown command.
   ╭─[entry #5:1:1]
 1 │ r#'=a'#
   · ───┬───
   ·    ╰── unknown command
   ╰────
```

Closes #13902, closes #13901, closes #9879, closes #6401, closes #5806

# User-Facing Changes

Variable names in environment shorthand assignments must satisfy
`is_identifier`.
2024-10-11 07:53:39 -05:00
Wind
1d15bbc95b
Making nushell works better with external args which surrounded by backtick quotes (#13910)
# Description
Fixes: #13431
Fixes: #13578

The issue happened because nushell thinks external program name and
external arg with totally same rule. But actually they are a little bit
different.
When parsing external program name, backtick is a thing and it should be
keeped.
But when parsing external args, backtick is just a mark that it's a
**bareword which may contain space**. So in this context, it's already
useless.

# User-Facing Changes
After the pr, the following command will work as intended.
```nushell
> ^echo `"hello"`
hello
```

# Tests + Formatting
Added 3 test cases.
2024-10-10 20:57:30 +08:00
Darren Schroeder
46589faaca
allow bools to be type checked with each other (#13968)
# Description

This PR allows bools to be type checked against each other.


![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/64dc36f8-59bc-4e66-8380-6b693c77a2d3)

I looked for test and maybe we don't have any for type checked math
stuff. I didn't see any.

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2024-09-30 19:18:07 -05:00
Piepmatz
f0c83a4459
Replace raw usize IDs with new types (#13832)
# Description

In this PR I replaced most of the raw usize IDs with
[newtypes](https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/generics/new_types.html).
Some other IDs already started using new types and in this PR I did not
want to touch them. To make the implementation less repetitive, I made
use of a generic `Id<T>` with marker structs. If this lands I would try
to move make other IDs also in this pattern.

Also at some places I needed to use `cast`, I'm not sure if the type was
incorrect and therefore casting not needed or if actually different ID
types intermingle sometimes.

# User-Facing Changes

Probably few, if you got a `DeclId` via a function and placed it later
again it will still work.
2024-09-30 13:20:15 +02:00
Andreas Källberg
8200831b07
Fix panic on too few arguments for custom function (#10395)
# Description
Old code was comparing remaining positional arguments with total number
of arguments, where it should've compared remaining positional with
with remaining arguments of any kind. This means that if a function was
given too few arguments, `calculate_end_span` would believe that it
actually had too many arguments, since after parsing the first few
arguments, the number of remaining arguments needed were fewer than the
*total* number of arguments, of which we had used several.

Fixes #9072
Fixes: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13930
Fixes: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/12069
Fixes: https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8385

Extracted from #10381

## Bonus

It also improves the error handling on missing positional arguments
before keywords (no longer crashing since #9851). Instead of just giving
the keyword to the parser for the missing positional, we give an
explicit error about a missing positional argument. I would like better
descriptions than "missing var_name" though, but I'm not sure if that's
available without

Old error
```
Error: nu::parser::parse_mismatch

  × Parse mismatch during operation.
   ╭─[entry #1:1:1]
 1 │ let = if foo
   ·     ┬
   ·     ╰── expected valid variable name
   ╰────
```

New error
```
Error: nu::parser::missing_positional

  × Missing required positional argument.
   ╭─[entry #18:1:1]
 1 │ let = foo
   ·    ┬
   ·    ╰── missing var_name
   ╰────
  help: Usage: let <var_name> = <initial_value>
```

# User-Facing Changes
The program `alias = = =` is no longer accepted by the parser
2024-09-27 23:39:45 +08:00
Wind
183c2221bb
Removes more quotes on external command arguments (#13883)
# Description
Fixes: #13662

I don't think nushell need to parse and keep nested quote on external
command arguments. Some nested quote is safe to removed. After the pr,
nushell will behave more likely to bash.

# User-Facing Changes
#### Before
```
> ^echo {a:1,b:'c',c:'d'}
{a:1,b:c',c:'d} 
```
#### After
```
> ^echo {a:1,b:'c',c:'d'}
{a:1,b:c,c:d}
```

# Tests + Formatting
Added some tests to cover the behavior
2024-09-23 06:44:51 -05:00
Wind
1a081c09de
Bump version to 0.98.1 (#13896) 2024-09-22 12:41:44 +08:00
Devyn Cairns
6e1e824473
Bump version to 0.98.0 (#13865) 2024-09-18 00:48:46 -07:00
Stefan Holderbach
84e1ac27e5
Setup global cargo lint configuration (#13691)
# Description
`cargo` somewhat recently gained the capability to store `lints`
settings for the crate and workspace, that can override the defaults
from `rustc` and `clippy` lints. This means we can enforce some lints
without having to actively pass them to clippy via `cargo clippy -- -W
...`. So users just forking the repo have an easier time to follow
similar requirements like our CI.

## Limitation

An exception that remains is that those lints apply to both the primary
code base and the tests. Thus we can't include e.g. `unwrap_used`
without generating noise in the tests. Here the setup in the CI remains
the most helpful.

## Included lints

- Add `clippy::unchecked_duration_subtraction` (added by #12549)
# User-Facing Changes
Running `cargo clippy --workspace` should be closer to the CI. This has
benefits for editor configured runs of clippy and saves you from having
to use `toolkit` to be close to CI in more cases.
2024-08-28 23:37:17 +02:00
Kira
ae0e13733d
Fix parsing record values containing colons (#13413)
This PR is an attempt to fix #8257 and fix #10985 (which is
duplicate-ish)

# Description
The parser currently doesn't know how to deal with colons appearing
while lexing whitespace-terminated tokens specifying a record value.
Most notably, this means you can't use datetime literals in record value
position (and as a consequence, `| to nuon | from nuon` roundtrips can
fail), but it also means that bare words containing colons cause a
non-useful error message.

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f04a8417-ee18-44e7-90eb-a0ecef943a0f)

`parser::parse_record` calls `lex::lex` with the `:` colon character in
the `special_tokens` argument. This allows colons to terminate record
keys, but as a side effect, it also causes colons to terminate record
*values*. I added a new function `lex::lex_n_tokens`, which allows the
caller to drive the lexing process more explicitly, and used it in
`parser::parse_record` to let colons terminate record keys while not
giving them special treatment when appearing in record values.

This PR description previously said: *Another approach suggested in one
of the issues was to support an additional datetime literal format that
doesn't require colons. I like that that wouldn't require new
`lex::lex_internal` behaviour, but an advantage of my approach is that
it also newly allows for string record values given as bare words
containing colons. I think this eliminates another possible source of
confusion.* It was determined that this is undesirable, and in the
current state of this PR, bare word record values with colons are
rejected explicitly. The better error message is still a win.

# User-Facing Changes
In addition to the above, this PR also disables the use of "special"
(non-item) tokens in record key and value position, and the use of a
single bare `:` as a record key.

Examples of behaviour *before* this PR:
```nu
{ a: b } # Valid, same as { 'a': 'b' }
{ a: b:c } # Error: expected ':'
{ a: 2024-08-13T22:11:09 } # Error: expected ':'
{ :: 1 } # Valid, same as { ':': 1 }
{ ;: 1 } # Valid, same as { ';': 1 }
{ a: || } # Valid, same as { 'a': '||' }
```

Examples of behaviour *after* this PR:
```nu
{ a: b } # (Unchanged) Valid, same as { 'a': 'b' }
{ a: b:c } # Error: colon in bare word specifying record value
{ a: 2024-08-13T22:11:09 } # Valid, same as { a: (2024-08-13T22:11:09) }
{ :: 1 } # Error: colon in bare word specifying record key
{ ;: 1 } # Error: expected item in record key position
{ a: || } # Error: expected item in record value position
```

# Tests + Formatting
I added tests, but I'm not sure if they're sufficient and in the right
place.

# After Submitting
I don't think documentation changes are needed for this, but please let
me know if you disagree.
2024-08-28 22:53:56 +02:00
Gwendolyn
dfdb2b5d31
Improve help output for scripts (#13445)
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Currently the parser and the documentation generation use the signature
of the command, which means that it doesn't pick up on the changed name
of the `main` block, and therefore shows the name of the command as
"main" and doesn't find the subcommands. This PR changes the
aforementioned places to use the block signature to fix these issues.
This closes #13397. Incidentally it also causes input/output types to be
shown in the help, which is kinda pointless for scripts since they don't
operate on structured data but maybe not worth the effort to remove.

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Before:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/49fdcf8d-e56a-4c27-b7c8-7d2902c2a807)

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/4d1f4faa-5928-4269-b0b5-fd654563bb8b)


After:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a7232a1f-f997-4988-808c-8fa957e39bae)

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/c5628dc6-69b5-443a-b103-9e5faa9bb4ba)

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Tests are still missing for the subcommands and the input/output types

---------

Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-08-23 21:08:27 +02:00
Stefan Holderbach
95b78eee25
Change the usage misnomer to "description" (#13598)
# Description
    
The meaning of the word usage is specific to describing how a command
function is *used* and not a synonym for general description. Usage can
be used to describe the SYNOPSIS or EXAMPLES sections of a man page
where the permitted argument combinations are shown or example *uses*
are given.
Let's not confuse people and call it what it is a description.

Our `help` command already creates its own *Usage* section based on the
available arguments and doesn't refer to the description with usage.

# User-Facing Changes

`help commands` and `scope commands` will now use `description` or
`extra_description`
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`

Breaking change in the plugin protocol:

In the signature record communicated with the engine.
`usage`-> `description`
`extra_usage` -> `extra_description`

The same rename also takes place for the methods on
`SimplePluginCommand` and `PluginCommand`

# Tests + Formatting
- Updated plugin protocol specific changes
# After Submitting
- [ ] update plugin protocol doc
2024-08-22 12:02:08 +02:00
Stefan Holderbach
e211b7ba53
Bump version to 0.97.2 (#13666) 2024-08-22 11:36:32 +02:00
Devyn Cairns
60769ac1ba
Bump version to 0.97.1 (#13659)
# Description

Bump version to `0.97.1`, which will be the actual next major release.
(`0.97.0` had a bug.)
2024-08-20 20:21:12 -07:00
Yash Thakur
34e7bd861c
Fix bug introduced by #13595 (#13658)
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@devyn found that https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/13595, which
made ranges be type-checked at parse time, introduced a bug that caused
`../foo` to be parsed as a string rather than a command call. This was
caused by `parse_range` returning a `Some` despite there being parse
errors (`/foo` doesn't match `SyntaxShape::Number`). To go back to the
old behavior, `parse_range` now returns `None` anytime there's any parse
errors met while parsing the range.

Unfortunately, this means that something like `..$foo` will be parsed as
a string if `$foo` isn't defined and as a range if it is defined. That
was the behavior before #13595, and it should probably be fixed at some
point, but I'm just trying to quickly fix the bug.

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Things should go back to the way they were before #13595, except the
type-checking stuff from that PR is still here.

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Added a test. Reverted another test that tests that `0..<$day` is parsed
successfully as a string if the variable isn't defined.

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2024-08-20 19:35:13 -07:00
Jack Wright
d667b3c0bc
bumped version number to 0.97 (#13655) 2024-08-20 16:28:19 -07:00
Yash Thakur
d5946a9667
Parse time type checking for range (#13595)
# Description

As part of fixing https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13586, this
PR checks the types of the operands when creating a range. Stuff like
`0..(glob .)` will be rejected at parse time. Additionally, `0..$x` will
be treated as a range and rejected if `x` is not defined, rather than
being treated as a string. A separate PR will need to be made to do
reject streams at runtime, so that stuff like `0..(open /dev/random)`
doesn't hang.

Internally, this PR adds a `ParseError::UnsupportedOperationTernary`
variant, for when you have a range like `1..2..(glob .)`.

# User-Facing Changes

Users will now receive an error if any of the operands in the ranges
they construct have types that aren't compatible with `Type::Number`.

Additionally, if a piece of code looks like a range but some parse error
is encountered while parsing it, that piece of code will still be
treated as a range and the user will be shown the parse error. This
means that a piece of code like `0..$x` will be treated as a range no
matter what. Previously, if `x` weren't the expression would've been
treated as a string `"0..$x"`. I feel like it makes the language less
complicated if we make it less context-sensitive.

Here's an example of the error you get:
```
> 0..(glob .)
Error: nu::parser::unsupported_operation

  × range is not supported between int and any.
   ╭─[entry #1:1:1]
 1 │ 0..(glob .)
   · ─────┬─────┬┬
   ·      │     │╰── any
   ·      │     ╰── int
   ·      ╰── doesn't support these values
   ╰────
```

And as an image:

![image](https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/5c76168d-27db-481b-b541-861dac899dbf)

Note: I made the operands themselves (above, `(glob .)`) be garbage,
rather than the `..` operator itself. This doesn't match the behavior of
the math operators (if you do `1 + "foo"`, `+` gets highlighted red).
This is because with ranges, the range operators aren't `Expression`s
themselves, so they can't be turned into garbage. I felt like here, it
makes more sense to highlight the individual operand anyway.
2024-08-13 15:05:34 +08:00
Wind
a432bf94ec
support SyntaxShape::OneOf in named args (#13553)
# Description
Fixes: #13253

The issue is because nushell use `parse_value` to parse named args, but
`parse_value` doesn't parse `OneOf` syntax shape.

# User-Facing Changes
`OneOf` in named args should works again.

# Tests + Formatting
I think it's hard to add a test, because nushell doesn't support `oneof`
syntax in custom command yet.

# After Submitting
NaN
2024-08-13 06:50:12 +08:00
Devyn Cairns
18772b73b3
Add parse error for external commands used in assignment without caret (#13585)
# Description

As per our Wednesday meeting, this adds a parse error when something
that would be parsed as an external call is present at the top level,
unless the head of the external call begins with a caret (to make it
explicit).

I tried to make the error quite descriptive about what should be done.

# User-Facing Changes
These now cause a parse error:

```nushell
$foo = bar
$foo = `bar`
```

These would have been interpreted as strings before this version, but
now they'd be interpreted as external calls. This behavior is consistent
with `let`/`mut` (which is unaffected by this change).

Here is an example of the error:

```
Error:   × External command calls must be explicit in assignments
   ╭─[entry #3:1:8]
 1 │ $foo = bar
   ·        ─┬─
   ·         ╰── add a caret (^) before the command name if you intended to run and capture its output
   ╰────
  help: the parsing of assignments was changed in 0.97.0, and this would have previously been treated as a string.
        Alternatively, quote the string with single or double quotes to avoid it being interpreted as a command name. This
        restriction may be removed in a future release.
```

# Tests + Formatting

Tests added to cover the change. Note made about it being temporary.
2024-08-12 10:24:23 +02:00
Stefan Holderbach
2c6b1471e1
Contentious clippy fixes (#13498)
Lints from stable or nightly toolchain that may have questionable added
value.

- **Contentious lint to contract into single `if let`**
- **Potential false positive around `AsRef`/`Deref` fun**
2024-08-01 11:02:55 +02:00
Stefan Holderbach
42531e017c
Clippy fixes from stable and nightly (#13455)
- **Doccomment style fixes**
- **Forgotten stuff in `nu-pretty-hex`**
- **Don't `for` around an `Option`**
- and more

I think the suggestions here are a net positive, some of the suggestions
moved into #13498 feel somewhat arbitrary, I also raised
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/13188 as the nightly
`byte_char_slices` would require either a global allow or otherwise a
ton of granular allows or possibly confusing bytestring literals.
2024-07-31 20:37:40 +02:00
Devyn Cairns
8e2917b9ae
Make assignment and const consistent with let/mut (#13385)
# Description

This makes assignment operations and `const` behave the same way `let`
and `mut` do, absorbing the rest of the pipeline.

Changes the lexer to be able to recognize assignment operators as a
separate token, and then makes the lite parser continue to push spans
into the same command regardless of any redirections or pipes if an
assignment operator is encountered. Because the pipeline is no longer
split up by the lite parser at this point, it's trivial to just parse
the right hand side as if it were a subexpression not contained within
parentheses.

# User-Facing Changes
Big breaking change. These are all now possible:

```nushell
const path = 'a' | path join 'b'

mut x = 2
$x = random int
$x = [1 2 3] | math sum

$env.FOO = random chars
```

In the past, these would have led to (an attempt at) bare word string
parsing. So while `$env.FOO = bar` would have previously set the
environment variable `FOO` to the string `"bar"`, it now tries to run
the command named `bar`, hence the major breaking change.

However, this is desirable because it is very consistent - if you see
the `=`, you can just assume it absorbs everything else to the right of
it.

# Tests + Formatting
Added tests for the new behaviour. Adjusted some existing tests that
depended on the right hand side of assignments being parsed as
barewords.

# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes (breaking change!)
2024-07-30 18:55:22 -05:00
Devyn Cairns
c31291753c
Bump version to 0.96.2 (#13485)
This should be the new development version. We most likely don't need a
0.96.2 patch release. Should be free to merge PRs after this.
2024-07-29 17:20:55 -07:00
Devyn Cairns
9f90d611e1
Bump version to 0.96.1 (#13439)
(Post-release bump.)
2024-07-25 18:28:18 +08:00
Devyn Cairns
a80dfe8e80
Bump version to 0.96.0 (#13433) 2024-07-23 16:10:35 -07:00
Devyn Cairns
01891d637d
Make parsing for unknown args in known externals like normal external calls (#13414)
# Description

This corrects the parsing of unknown arguments provided to known
externals to behave exactly like external arguments passed to normal
external calls.

I've done this by adding a `SyntaxShape::ExternalArgument` which
triggers the same parsing rules.

Because I didn't like how the highlighting looked, I modified the
flattener to emit `ExternalArg` flat shapes for arguments that have that
syntax shape and are plain strings/globs. This is the same behavior that
external calls have.

Aside from passing the tests, I've also checked manually that the
completer seems to work adequately. I can confirm that specified
positional arguments get completion according to their specified type
(including custom completions), and then anything remaining gets
filepath style completion, as you'd expect from an external command.

Thanks to @OJarrisonn for originally finding this issue.

# User-Facing Changes

- Unknown args are now parsed according to their specified syntax shape,
rather than `Any`. This may be a breaking change, though I think it's
extremely unlikely in practice.
- The unspecified arguments of known externals are now highlighted /
flattened identically to normal external arguments, which makes it more
clear how they're being interpreted, and should help the completer
function properly.
- Known externals now have an implicit rest arg if not specified named
`args`, with a syntax shape of `ExternalArgument`.

# Tests + Formatting
Tests added for the new behaviour. Some old tests had to be corrected to
match.

- 🟢 `toolkit fmt`
- 🟢 `toolkit clippy`
- 🟢 `toolkit test`
- 🟢 `toolkit test stdlib`

# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes (bugfix, and debatable whether it's a breaking
change)
2024-07-21 01:32:36 -07:00
Devyn Cairns
aa7d7d0cc3
Overhaul $in expressions (#13357)
# Description

This grew quite a bit beyond its original scope, but I've tried to make
`$in` a bit more consistent and easier to work with.

Instead of the parser generating calls to `collect` and creating
closures, this adds `Expr::Collect` which just evaluates in the same
scope and doesn't require any closure.

When `$in` is detected in an expression, it is replaced with a new
variable (also called `$in`) and wrapped in `Expr::Collect`. During
eval, this expression is evaluated directly, with the input and with
that new variable set to the collected value.

Other than being faster and less prone to gotchas, it also makes it
possible to typecheck the output of an expression containing `$in`,
which is nice. This is a breaking change though, because of the lack of
the closure and because now typechecking will actually happen. Also, I
haven't attempted to typecheck the input yet.

The IR generated now just looks like this:

```gas
collect        %in
clone          %tmp, %in
store-variable $in, %tmp
# %out <- ...expression... <- %in
drop-variable  $in
```

(where `$in` is the local variable created for this collection, and not
`IN_VARIABLE_ID`)

which is a lot better than having to create a closure and call `collect
--keep-env`, dealing with all of the capture gathering and allocation
that entails. Ideally we can also detect whether that input is actually
needed, so maybe we don't have to clone, but I haven't tried to do that
yet. Theoretically now that the variable is a unique one every time, it
should be possible to give it a type - I just don't know how to
determine that yet.

On top of that, I've also reworked how `$in` works in pipeline-initial
position. Previously, it was a little bit inconsistent. For example,
this worked:

```nushell
> 3 | do { let x = $in; let y = $in; print $x $y }
3
3
```

However, this causes a runtime variable not found error on the second
`$in`:

```nushell
> def foo [] { let x = $in; let y = $in; print $x $y }; 3 | foo
Error: nu:🐚:variable_not_found

  × Variable not found
   ╭─[entry #115:1:35]
 1 │ def foo [] { let x = $in; let y = $in; print $x $y }; 3 | foo
   ·                                   ─┬─
   ·                                    ╰── variable not found
   ╰────
```

I've fixed this by making the first element `$in` detection *always*
happen at the block level, so if you use `$in` in pipeline-initial
position anywhere in a block, it will collect with an implicit
subexpression around the whole thing, and you can then use that `$in`
more than once. In doing this I also rewrote `parse_pipeline()` and
hopefully it's a bit more straightforward and possibly more efficient
too now.

Finally, I've tried to make `let` and `mut` a lot more straightforward
with how they handle the rest of the pipeline, and using a redirection
with `let`/`mut` now does what you'd expect if you assume that they
consume the whole pipeline - the redirection is just processed as
normal. These both work now:

```nushell
let x = ^foo err> err.txt
let y = ^foo out+err>| str length
```

It was previously possible to accomplish this with a subexpression, but
it just seemed like a weird gotcha that you couldn't do it. Intuitively,
`let` and `mut` just seem to take the whole line.

- closes #13137

# User-Facing Changes
- `$in` will behave more consistently with blocks and closures, since
the entire block is now just wrapped to handle it if it appears in the
first pipeline element
- `$in` no longer creates a closure, so what can be done within an
expression containing `$in` is less restrictive
- `$in` containing expressions are now type checked, rather than just
resulting in `any`. However, `$in` itself is still `any`, so this isn't
quite perfect yet
- Redirections are now allowed in `let` and `mut` and behave pretty much
how you'd expect

# Tests + Formatting
Added tests to cover the new behaviour.

# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes (definitely breaking change)
2024-07-17 16:02:42 -05:00
Stefan Holderbach
c5aa15c7f6
Add top-level crate documentation/READMEs (#12907)
# Description
Add `README.md` files to each crate in our workspace (-plugins) and also
include it in the `lib.rs` documentation for <docs.rs> (if there is no
existing `lib.rs` crate documentation)

In all new README I added the defensive comment that the crates are not
considered stable for public consumption. If necessary we can adjust
this if we deem a crate useful for plugin authors.
2024-07-14 10:10:41 +02:00
Devyn Cairns
02659b1c8a
Mention the actual output type on an OutputMismatch error (#13355)
# Description

This improves the error when the determined output of a custom command
doesn't match the specified output type by adding the actual determined
output type.

# User-Facing Changes

Previous: `command doesn't output {0}`

New: `expected {0}, but command outputs {1}`

# Tests + Formatting
Passing.

# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes? (minor change, but helpful)
2024-07-12 11:45:53 +02:00
Devyn Cairns
d7392f1f3b
Internal representation (IR) compiler and evaluator (#13330)
# Description

This PR adds an internal representation language to Nushell, offering an
alternative evaluator based on simple instructions, stream-containing
registers, and indexed control flow. The number of registers required is
determined statically at compile-time, and the fixed size required is
allocated upon entering the block.

Each instruction is associated with a span, which makes going backwards
from IR instructions to source code very easy.

Motivations for IR:

1. **Performance.** By simplifying the evaluation path and making it
more cache-friendly and branch predictor-friendly, code that does a lot
of computation in Nushell itself can be sped up a decent bit. Because
the IR is fairly easy to reason about, we can also implement
optimization passes in the future to eliminate and simplify code.
2. **Correctness.** The instructions mostly have very simple and
easily-specified behavior, so hopefully engine changes are a little bit
easier to reason about, and they can be specified in a more formal way
at some point. I have made an effort to document each of the
instructions in the docs for the enum itself in a reasonably specific
way. Some of the errors that would have happened during evaluation
before are now moved to the compilation step instead, because they don't
make sense to check during evaluation.
3. **As an intermediate target.** This is a good step for us to bring
the [`new-nu-parser`](https://github.com/nushell/new-nu-parser) in at
some point, as code generated from new AST can be directly compared to
code generated from old AST. If the IR code is functionally equivalent,
it will behave the exact same way.
4. **Debugging.** With a little bit more work, we can probably give
control over advancing the virtual machine that `IrBlock`s run on to
some sort of external driver, making things like breakpoints and single
stepping possible. Tools like `view ir` and [`explore
ir`](https://github.com/devyn/nu_plugin_explore_ir) make it easier than
before to see what exactly is going on with your Nushell code.

The goal is to eventually replace the AST evaluator entirely, once we're
sure it's working just as well. You can help dogfood this by running
Nushell with `$env.NU_USE_IR` set to some value. The environment
variable is checked when Nushell starts, so config runs with IR, or it
can also be set on a line at the REPL to change it dynamically. It is
also checked when running `do` in case within a script you want to just
run a specific piece of code with or without IR.

# Example

```nushell
view ir { |data|
  mut sum = 0
  for n in $data {
    $sum += $n
  }
  $sum
}
```
  
```gas
# 3 registers, 19 instructions, 0 bytes of data
   0: load-literal           %0, int(0)
   1: store-variable         var 904, %0 # let
   2: drain                  %0
   3: drop                   %0
   4: load-variable          %1, var 903
   5: iterate                %0, %1, end 15 # for, label(1), from(14:)
   6: store-variable         var 905, %0
   7: load-variable          %0, var 904
   8: load-variable          %2, var 905
   9: binary-op              %0, Math(Plus), %2
  10: span                   %0
  11: store-variable         var 904, %0
  12: load-literal           %0, nothing
  13: drain                  %0
  14: jump                   5
  15: drop                   %0          # label(0), from(5:)
  16: drain                  %0
  17: load-variable          %0, var 904
  18: return                 %0
```

# Benchmarks

All benchmarks run on a base model Mac Mini M1.

## Iterative Fibonacci sequence

This is about as best case as possible, making use of the much faster
control flow. Most code will not experience a speed improvement nearly
this large.

```nushell
def fib [n: int] {
  mut a = 0
  mut b = 1
  for _ in 2..=$n {
    let c = $a + $b
    $a = $b
    $b = $c
  }
  $b
}
use std bench
bench { 0..50 | each { |n| fib $n } }
```

IR disabled:

```
╭───────┬─────────────────╮
│ mean  │ 1ms 924µs 665ns │
│ min   │ 1ms 700µs 83ns  │
│ max   │ 3ms 450µs 125ns │
│ std   │ 395µs 759ns     │
│ times │ [list 50 items] │
╰───────┴─────────────────╯
```

IR enabled:

```
╭───────┬─────────────────╮
│ mean  │ 452µs 820ns     │
│ min   │ 427µs 417ns     │
│ max   │ 540µs 167ns     │
│ std   │ 17µs 158ns      │
│ times │ [list 50 items] │
╰───────┴─────────────────╯
```

![explore ir
view](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/10729/d7bccc03-5222-461c-9200-0dce71b83b83)

##
[gradient_benchmark_no_check.nu](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/benchmarks/gradient_benchmark_no_check.nu)

IR disabled:

```
╭───┬──────────────────╮
│ 0 │ 27ms 929µs 958ns │
│ 1 │ 21ms 153µs 459ns │
│ 2 │ 18ms 639µs 666ns │
│ 3 │ 19ms 554µs 583ns │
│ 4 │ 13ms 383µs 375ns │
│ 5 │ 11ms 328µs 208ns │
│ 6 │  5ms 659µs 542ns │
╰───┴──────────────────╯
```

IR enabled:

```
╭───┬──────────────────╮
│ 0 │       22ms 662µs │
│ 1 │ 17ms 221µs 792ns │
│ 2 │ 14ms 786µs 708ns │
│ 3 │ 13ms 876µs 834ns │
│ 4 │  13ms 52µs 875ns │
│ 5 │ 11ms 269µs 666ns │
│ 6 │  6ms 942µs 500ns │
╰───┴──────────────────╯
```

##
[random-bytes.nu](https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/benchmarks/random-bytes.nu)

I got pretty random results out of this benchmark so I decided not to
include it. Not clear why.

# User-Facing Changes
- IR compilation errors may appear even if the user isn't evaluating
with IR.
- IR evaluation can be enabled by setting the `NU_USE_IR` environment
variable to any value.
- New command `view ir` pretty-prints the IR for a block, and `view ir
--json` can be piped into an external tool like [`explore
ir`](https://github.com/devyn/nu_plugin_explore_ir).

# Tests + Formatting
All tests are passing with `NU_USE_IR=1`, and I've added some more eval
tests to compare the results for some very core operations. I will
probably want to add some more so we don't have to always check
`NU_USE_IR=1 toolkit test --workspace` on a regular basis.

# After Submitting
- [ ] release notes
- [ ] further documentation of instructions?
- [ ] post-release: publish `nu_plugin_explore_ir`
2024-07-10 17:33:59 -07:00