nushell/crates/nu-protocol
JT 30904bd095
Remove broken compile-time overload system (#9677)
# Description

This PR removes the compile-time overload system. Unfortunately, this
system never worked correctly because in a gradual type system where
types can be `Any`, you don't have enough information to correctly
resolve function calls with overloads. These resolutions must be done at
runtime, if they're supported.

That said, there's a bit of work that needs to go into resolving
input/output types (here overloads do not execute separate commands, but
the same command and each overload explains how each output type
corresponds to input types).

This PR also removes the type scope, which would give incorrect answers
in cases where multiple subexpressions were used in a pipeline.

# User-Facing Changes

Finishes removing compile-time overloads. These were only used in a few
places in the code base, but it's possible it may impact user code. I'll
mark this as breaking change so we can review.

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2023-07-14 07:05:03 +12:00
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src Remove broken compile-time overload system (#9677) 2023-07-14 07:05:03 +12:00
tests remove let-env, focus on mutating $env (#9574) 2023-07-01 07:57:51 +12:00
Cargo.toml Bump deps to transitively use hashbrown 0.14 (#9668) 2023-07-12 17:55:51 +02:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.