Fixes#14971, fixes#15229
# User-Facing Changes
Fixes a panic when variable data is accessed after invalid usage of the
`|` separator, which made it impossible to type certain match arms:
```nushell
> match $in { 1 |
Error: x Main thread panicked.
|-> at crates/nu-protocol/src/engine/state_delta.rs💯14
`-> internal error: missing required scope frame
```
# Description
Removes duplicative calls to `exit_scope` from an inner loop when `|`
parse errors are encountered. The outer loop creates and exits scopes
for each match arm.
# Description
This PR adds two new `ParseError` and `ShellError` cases for type errors
relating to operators.
- `OperatorUnsupportedType` is used when a type is not supported by an
operator in any way, shape, or form. E.g., `+` does not support `bool`.
- `OperatorIncompatibleTypes` is used when a operator is used with types
it supports, but the combination of types provided cannot be used
together. E.g., `filesize + duration` is not a valid combination.
The other preexisting error cases related to operators have been removed
and replaced with the new ones above. Namely:
- `ShellError::OperatorMismatch`
- `ShellError::UnsupportedOperator`
- `ParseError::UnsupportedOperationLHS`
- `ParseError::UnsupportedOperationRHS`
- `ParseError::UnsupportedOperationTernary`
# User-Facing Changes
- `help operators` now lists the precedence of `not` as 55 instead of 0
(above the other boolean operators). Fixes#13675.
- `math median` and `math mode` now ignore NaN values so that `[NaN NaN]
| math median` and `[NaN NaN] | math mode` no longer trigger a type
error. Instead, it's now an empty input error. Fixing this in earnest
can be left for a future PR.
- Comparisons with `nan` now return false instead of causing an error.
E.g., `1 == nan` is now `false`.
- All the operator type errors have been standardized and reworked. In
particular, they can now have a help message, which is currently used
for types errors relating to `++`.
```nu
[1] ++ 2
```
```
Error: nu::parser::operator_unsupported_type
× The '++' operator does not work on values of type 'int'.
╭─[entry #1:1:5]
1 │ [1] ++ 2
· ─┬ ┬
· │ ╰── int
· ╰── does not support 'int'
╰────
help: if you meant to append a value to a list or a record to a table, use the `append` command or wrap the value in a list. For example: `$list ++ $value` should be
`$list ++ [$value]` or `$list | append $value`.
```
# Description
Zyphys found that when parsing `{...{}, ...{}, a: 1}`, the `a:` would be
considered one token, leading to a parse error ([Discord
message](https://discord.com/channels/601130461678272522/614593951969574961/1336762075535511573)).
This PR fixes that.
What would happen is that while getting tokens, the following would
happen in a loop:
1. Get the next two tokens while treating `:` as a special character (so
we get the next field key and a colon token)
2. Get the next token while not treating `:` as a special character (so
we get the next value)
I didn't update this when I added the spread operator. With `{...{},
...{}, a: 1}`, the first two tokens would be `...{}` and `...{}`, and
the next token would be `a:`. This PR changes this loop to first get a
single token, check if it's spreading a record, and move on if so.
Alternatives considered:
- Treat `:` as a special character when getting the value too. This
would simplify the loop greatly, but would mean you can't use colons in
values.
- Merge the loop for getting tokens and the loop for parsing those
tokens. I tried this, but it complicates things if you run into a syntax
error and want to create a garbage span going to the end of the record.
# User-Facing Changes
Nothing new
# Description
Add custom command attributes.
- Attributes are placed before a command definition and start with a `@`
character.
- Attribute invocations consist of const command call. The command's
name must start with "attr ", but this prefix is not used in the
invocation.
- A command named `attr example` is invoked as an attribute as
`@example`
- Several built-in attribute commands are provided as part of this PR
- `attr example`: Attaches an example to the commands help text
```nushell
# Double numbers
@example "double an int" { 5 | double } --result 10
@example "double a float" { 0.5 | double } --result 1.0
def double []: [number -> number] {
$in * 2
}
```
- `attr search-terms`: Adds search terms to a command
- ~`attr env`: Equivalent to using `def --env`~
- ~`attr wrapped`: Equivalent to using `def --wrapped`~ shelved for
later discussion
- several testing related attributes in `std/testing`
- If an attribute has no internal/special purpose, it's stored as
command metadata that can be obtained with `scope commands`.
- This allows having attributes like `@test` which can be used by test
runners.
- Used the `@example` attribute for `std` examples.
- Updated the std tests and test runner to use `@test` attributes
- Added completions for attributes
# User-Facing Changes
Users can add examples to their own command definitions, and add other
arbitrary attributes.
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 toolkit fmt
- 🟢 toolkit clippy
- 🟢 toolkit test
- 🟢 toolkit test stdlib
# After Submitting
- Add documentation about the attribute syntax and built-in attributes
- `help attributes`
---------
Co-authored-by: 132ikl <132@ikl.sh>
# Description
Fixes: #15049
The error occurs when using an alias with a module prefix, it can
initially pass through alias checking, but if the alias leads to
commands which have side effects, it doesn't call these functions to
apply side effects.
This pr ensure that in such cases, nushell still calls
`parse_overlay_xxx` functions to apply the side effects.
I want to make my test easier to write, so this pr depends on
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/15054.
# User-Facing Changes
The following code will no longer raise an error:
```
module inner {}
module spam { export alias b = overlay use inner }
use spam
spam b
```
# Tests + Formatting
Added 2 tests.
# After Submitting
NaN
# Description
This PR fixes#14784.
<img width="384" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aac063a0-645d-4adb-a399-525bdb004999"
/>
Also fixes the related behavior of lsp:
completion won't work in match/else blocks, because:
1. truncation in completion causes unmatched `{`, thus a parse error.
2. the parse error further leads to a state where the whole block
expression marked as garbage
<img width="453" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/aaf86ccc-646e-4b91-bb27-4b1737100ff2"
/>
Related PR: #14856, @tmillr
I don't have any background knowledge of those `propagate_error`,
@sgvictorino you may want to review this.
# User-Facing Changes
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
# Description
This PR fixes#14816 , so that expression-contains-position check won't
need special treatment for keyword expressions.
e.g.
```nushell
overlay use foo as bar
# |_______ cursor here
if true { } else { }
# |_______ here
```
as mentioned in #14924
# User-Facing Changes
# Tests + Formatting
# After Submitting
# Description
Fixes: #14844
The issue occurs when nushell is parsing a value with
`SyntaxShape::Any`, it checks `Duration` and `Filesize` first, then
`Range`. Nushell raises errors too early while parsing
`Duration/Filesize`.
This pr changes the order of parsing to fix the issue.
# User-Facing Changes
The following code should be able to run after this pr
```nushell
let runs = 10;
1..$runs
```
# Tests + Formatting
Added 2 tests, one for filesize, one for duration.
# After Submitting
NaN
# Description
This PR add 2 new operators, `has` and `not-has`. They are basically
`in` and `not-in` with the order of operands swapped.
Motivation for this was the awkward way of searching for rows that
contain an item using `where`
```nushell
[[name, children]; [foo, [a, b, c]], [bar [d, e, f]]]
| where ("e" in $it.children)
```
vs
```nushell
[[name, children]; [foo, [a, b, c]], [bar [d, e, f]]]
| where children has "e"
```
# User-Facing Changes
Added `has` and `not-has` operators, mirroring `in` and `not-in`.
# Tests + Formatting
- 🟢 toolkit fmt
- 🟢 toolkit clippy
- 🟢 toolkit test
- 🟢 toolkit test stdlib
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Follow-up PR of #14789
The span of `$it/$in` is set to a 0-width one with start/end pointing to
the start of its scope, mainly for error messages positioning.
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This PR addresses the issue of inconsistent spans of special variables
of `$in/$in`, as discussed in
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/14770#discussion_r1908729364.
Instead of making the `declaration_span` to be Option, which will cause
too many changes that we may want to avoid, this PR set the spans to be
`unknown`.
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Related:
- #14329
- #13872
- #8214
# Description & User-Facing Changes
This PR allows enables the following uses, which are all no-op.
```nushell
source null
source-env null
use null
overlay use null
```
The motivation for this change is conditional sourcing of files. For
example, with this change `login.nu` may be deprecated and replaced with
the following code in `config.nu`
```nushell
const login_module = if $nu.is-login { "login.nu" } else { null }
source $login_module
```
# Tests + Formatting
I'm hoping for CI to pass 😄
# After Submitting
Add a part about the conditional sourcing pattern to the website.
# Description
Because `and` and `or` are short-circuiting operations in Nushell, they
must be compiled to a sequence that avoids evaluating the RHS if the LHS
is already sufficient to determine the output - i.e., `false` for `and`
and `true` for `or`. I initially implemented this with `branch-if`
instructions, simply returning the RHS if it needed to be evaluated, and
returning the short-circuited boolean value if it did not.
Example for `$a and $b`:
```
0: load-variable %0, var 999 "$a"
1: branch-if %0, 3
2: jump 5
3: load-variable %0, var 1000 "$b" # label(0), from(1:)
4: jump 6
5: load-literal %0, bool(false) # label(1), from(2:)
6: span %0 # label(2), from(4:)
7: return %0
```
Unfortunately, this broke polars, because using `and`/`or` on custom
values is perfectly valid and they're allowed to define that behavior
differently, and the polars plugin uses this for boolean masks. But
without using the `binary-op` instruction, that custom behavior is never
invoked. Additionally, `branch-if` requires a boolean, and custom values
are not booleans. This changes the IR to the following, using the
`match` instruction to check for the specific short-circuit value
instead, and still invoking `binary-op` otherwise:
```
0: load-variable %0, var 125 "$a"
1: match (false), %0, 4
2: load-variable %1, var 124 "$b"
3: binary-op %0, Boolean(And), %1
4: span %0 # label(0), from(1:)
5: return %0
```
I've also renamed `Pattern::Value` to `Pattern::Expression` and added a
proper `Pattern::Value` variant that actually contains a `Value`
instead. I'm still hoping to remove `Pattern::Expression` eventually,
because it's kind of a hack - we don't actually evaluate the expression,
we just match it against a few cases specifically for pattern matching,
and it's one of the cases where AST leaks into IR and I want to remove
all of those cases, because AST should not leak into IR.
Fixes#14518
# User-Facing Changes
- `and` and `or` now support custom values again.
- the IR is actually a little bit cleaner, though it may be a bit
slower; `match` is more complex.
# Tests + Formatting
The existing tests pass, but I didn't add anything new. Unfortunately I
don't think there's anything built-in to trigger this, but maybe some
testcases could be added to polars to test it.
# Description
Closes#14521
This PR tweaks the way 64-bit hex numbers are parsed.
### Before
```nushell
❯ 0xffffffffffffffef
Error: nu:🐚:external_command
× External command failed
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ 0xffffffffffffffef
· ─────────┬────────
· ╰── Command `0xffffffffffffffef` not found
╰────
help: `0xffffffffffffffef` is neither a Nushell built-in or a known external command
```
### After
```nushell
❯ 0xffffffffffffffef
-17
```
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- This PR should fix/close:
- #11266
- #12893
- #13736
- #13748
- #14170
- It doesn't fix#13736 though unfortunately. The issue there is at a
different level to this fix (I think probably in the lexing somewhere,
which I haven't touched).
# The Problem
The linked issues have many examples of the problem and the related
confusion it causes, but I'll give some more examples here for
illustration. It boils down to the following:
This doesn't type check (good):
```nu
def foo []: string -> int { false }
```
This does (bad):
```nu
def foo [] : string -> int { false }
```
Because the parser is completely ignoring all the characters. This also
compiles in 0.100.0:
```nu
def blue [] Da ba Dee da Ba da { false }
```
And this also means commands which have a completely fine type, but an
extra space before `:`, lose that type information and end up as `any ->
any`, e.g.
```nu
def foo [] : int -> int {$in + 3}
```
```bash
$ foo --help
Input/output types:
╭───┬───────┬────────╮
│ # │ input │ output │
├───┼───────┼────────┤
│ 0 │ any │ any │
╰───┴───────┴────────╯
```
# The Fix
Special thank you to @texastoland whose draft PR (#12358) I referenced
heavily while making this fix.
That PR seeks to fix the invalid parsing by disallowing whitespace
between `[]` and `:` in declarations, e.g. `def foo [] : int -> any {}`
This PR instead allows the whitespace while properly parsing the type
signature. I think this is the better choice for a few reasons:
- The parsing is still straightforward and the information is all there
anyway,
- It's more consistent with type annotations in other places, e.g. `do
{|nums : list<int>| $nums | describe} [ 1 2 3 ]` from the [Type
Signatures doc
page](https://www.nushell.sh/lang-guide/chapters/types/type_signatures.html)
- It's more consistent with the new nu parser, which allows `let x :
bool = false` (current nu doesn't, but this PR doesn't change that)
- It will be less disruptive and should only break code where the types
are actually wrong (if your types were correct, but you had a space
before the `:`, those declarations will still compile and now have more
type information vs. throwing an error in all cases and requiring spaces
to be deleted)
- It's the more intuitive syntax for most functional programmers like
myself (haskell/lean/coq/agda and many more either allow or require
whitespace for type annotations)
I don't use Rust a lot, so I tried to keep most things the same and the
rest I wrote as if it was Haskell (if you squint a bit). Code
review/suggestions very welcome. I added all the tests I could think of
and `toolkit check pr` gives it the all-clear.
# User-Facing Changes
This PR meets part of the goal of #13849, but doesn't do anything about
parsing signatures twice and doesn't do much to improve error messages,
it just enforces the existing errors and error messages.
This will no doubt be a breaking change, mostly because the code is
already broken and users don't realise yet (one of my personal scripts
stopped compiling after this fix because I thought `def foo [] -> string
{}` was valid syntax). It shouldn't break any type-correct code though.
# Description
While reviewing #14388, I think we can make some improvement on parser.
For the following code:
```nushell
let a = 3
a = 10 # should be error
$a = 10 # another error
```
I think they can raise `ParseError`, so nushell doesn't need to move
forward compiling IR block.
# User-Facing Changes
```nushell
let a = 3
a = 10
```
Will raise parse error instead of compile error.
# Tests + Formatting
Added 1 test.
# Description
Adds a new `Filesize` type so that `FromValue` can be used to convert a
`Value::Filesize` to a `Filesize`. Currently, to extract a filesize from
a `Value` using `FromValue`, you have to extract an `i64` which coerces
`Value::Int`, `Value::Duration`, and `Value::Filesize` to an `i64`.
Having a separate type also allows us to enforce checked math to catch
overflows. Similarly, it allows us to specify other trait
implementations like `Display` in a common place.
# User-Facing Changes
Multiplication with filesizes now error on overflow. Should not be a
breaking change for plugins (i.e., serialization) since `Filesize` is
marked with `serde(transparent)`.
# Tests + Formatting
Updated some tests.
# Description
The "append" operator currently serves as both the append operator and
the concatenation operator. This dual role creates ambiguity when
operating on nested lists.
```nu
[1 2] ++ 3 # appends a value to a list [1 2 3]
[1 2] ++ [3 4] # concatenates two lists [1 2 3 4]
[[1 2] [3 4]] ++ [5 6]
# does this give [[1 2] [3 4] [5 6]]
# or [[1 2] [3 4] 5 6]
```
Another problem is that `++=` can change the type of a variable:
```nu
mut str = 'hello '
$str ++= ['world']
($str | describe) == list<string>
```
Note that appending is only relevant for lists, but concatenation is
relevant for lists, strings, and binary values. Additionally, appending
can be expressed in terms of concatenation (see example below). So, this
PR changes the `++` operator to only perform concatenation.
# User-Facing Changes
Using the `++` operator with a list and a non-list value will now be a
compile time or runtime error.
```nu
mut list = []
$list ++= 1 # error
```
Instead, concatenate a list with one element:
```nu
$list ++= [1]
```
Or use `append`:
```nu
$list = $list | append 1
```
# After Submitting
Update book and docs.
---------
Co-authored-by: Douglas <32344964+NotTheDr01ds@users.noreply.github.com>
# User-Facing Changes
- `expected <type>` errors are now propagated from
`Closure | Block | Expression` instead of falling back to
"expected one of..." for the block:
Before:
```nushell
def foo [bar: bool] {}
if true {} else { foo 1 }
────┬────
╰── expected one of a list of accepted shapes: [Block, Expression]
```
After:
```nushell
if true {} else { foo 1 }
┬
╰── expected bool
```
# 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 = ] {}
```
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
```
# 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]]
```
# 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.
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
# 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.

closes#13261
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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
# 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.

closes#13261
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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
# Description
Fixes: #13431Fixes: #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.
# 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.
# 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
# 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
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.

`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.
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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:


After:


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Tests are still missing for the subcommands and the input/output types
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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..<$day` is parsed
successfully as a string if the variable isn't defined.
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# Description
As part of fixing https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/13586, this
PR checks the types of the operands when creating a range. Stuff like
`0..(glob .)` will be rejected at parse time. Additionally, `0..$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:

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.
# 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
# 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.
- **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.
# 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!)
# 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)
# 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)
# 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] │
╰───────┴─────────────────╯
```

##
[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`