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8 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Yehuda Katz
7fa09f59c2 Remove unused code
Closes #467
2019-09-01 23:11:05 -07:00
Yehuda Katz
8a29c9e6ab Migrated numerics to BigInt/BigDecimal
This commit migrates Value's numeric types to BigInt and BigDecimal. The
basic idea is that overflow errors aren't great in a shell environment,
and not really necessary.

The main immediate consequence is that new errors can occur when
serializing Nu values to other formats. You can see this in changes to
the various serialization formats (JSON, TOML, etc.). There's a new
`CoerceInto` trait that uses the `ToPrimitive` trait from `num_traits`
to attempt to coerce a `BigNum` or `BigDecimal` into a target type, and
produces a `RangeError` (kind of `ShellError`) if the coercion fails.

Another possible future consequence is that certain performance-critical
numeric operations might be too slow. If that happens, we can introduce
specialized numeric types to help improve the performance of those
situations, based on the real-world experience.
2019-09-01 21:00:30 -07:00
Yehuda Katz
138b5af82b Basic support for decimal numbers
This commit is more substantial than it looks: there was basically no
real support for decimals before, and that impacted values all the way
through.

I also made Size contain a decimal instead of an integer (`1.6kb` is a
reasonable thing to type), which impacted a bunch of code.

The biggest impact of this commit is that it creates many more possible
ways for valid nu types to fail to serialize as toml, json, etc. which
typically can't support the full range of Decimal (or Bigint, which I
also think we should support). This commit makes to-toml fallible, and a
similar effort is necessary for the rest of the serializations.

We also need to figure out how to clearly communicate to users what has
happened, but failing to serialize to toml seems clearly superior to me
than weird errors in basic math operations.
2019-08-30 21:05:32 -07:00
Yehuda Katz
0dc4b2b686 Add support for external escape valve (^dir)
This commit makes it possible to force nu to treat a command as an external command by prefixing it with `^`. For example `^dir` will force `dir` to run an external command, even if `dir` is also a registered nu command.

This ensures that users don't need to leave nu just because we happened to use a command they need.

This commit adds a new token type for external commands, which, among other things, makes it pretty straight forward to syntax highlight external commands uniquely, and generally to treat them as special.
2019-08-15 15:18:18 -07:00
Jonathan Turner
99671b8ffc Move more parts to tags and away from spans 2019-08-05 20:54:29 +12:00
Jonathan Turner
462f783fac initial change to Tagged<Value> 2019-08-01 13:58:42 +12:00
Yehuda Katz
ded3462e82 Make signatures a little more general 2019-07-15 14:16:27 -07:00
Jonathan Turner
c969c2c362 Clean up old parser code 2019-06-25 16:33:12 +12:00