nushell/crates/nu-protocol
Raphael Gaschignard d8f13b36b1
Allow for stacks to have parents (#11654)
This is another attempt on #11288 

This allows for a `Stack` to have a parent stack (behind an `Arc`). This
is being added to avoid constant stack copying in REPL code.

Concretely the following changes are included here:
- `Stack` can now have a `parent_stack`, pointing to another stack
- variable lookups can fallback to this parent stack (env vars and
everything else is still copied)
- REPL code has been reworked so that we use parenting rather than
cloning. A REPL-code-specific trait helps to ensure that we do not
accidentally trigger a full clone of the main stack
- A property test has been added to make sure that parenting "looks the
same" as cloning for consumers of `Stack` objects

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Co-authored-by: Raphael Gaschignard <rtpg@rokkenjima.local>
Co-authored-by: Ian Manske <ian.manske@pm.me>
2024-03-09 17:55:39 +01:00
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src Allow for stacks to have parents (#11654) 2024-03-09 17:55:39 +01:00
tests Name the Value conversion functions more clearly (#11851) 2024-02-17 18:14:16 +00:00
Cargo.toml Introduce workspace dependencies (#12043) 2024-03-07 14:40:31 -08:00
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.