Add recursion limit to `def` and `block`.
Summary of this PR , it will detect if `def` call itself or not .
Then execute by using `stack` which I think best choice to use with this
design and core as it is available in all crates and mutable and
calculate the recursion limit on calling `def`.
Set 50 as recursion limit on `Config`.
Add some tests too .
Fixes#5899
Co-authored-by: Reilly Wood <reilly.wood@icloud.com>
# Description
This closes#7498, as well as fixes an issue reported in
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/7002#issuecomment-1368340773
BEFORE:
```
〉[{foo: 'bar'} {}] | get foo
Error: nu:🐚:column_not_found (link)
× Cannot find column
╭─[entry #5:1:1]
1 │ [{foo: 'bar'} {}] | get foo
· ────────┬──────── ─┬─
· │ ╰── value originates here
· ╰── cannot find column 'Empty cell'
╰────
〉[{foo: 'bar'} {}].foo
╭───┬─────╮
│ 0 │ bar │
│ 1 │ │
╰───┴─────╯
```
AFTER:
```
〉[{foo: 'bar'} {}] | get foo
Error: nu:🐚:column_not_found (link)
× Cannot find column
╭─[entry #1:1:1]
1 │ [{foo: 'bar'} {}] | get foo
· ─┬ ─┬─
· │ ╰── cannot find column 'foo'
· ╰── value originates here
╰────
〉[{foo: 'bar'} {}].foo
Error: nu:🐚:column_not_found (link)
× Cannot find column
╭─[entry #3:1:1]
1 │ [{foo: 'bar'} {}].foo
· ─┬ ─┬─
· │ ╰── cannot find column 'foo'
· ╰── value originates here
╰────
```
EDIT: This also changes the semantics of `get`/`select` `-i` somewhat.
I've decided to leave it like this because it works more intuitively
with `default` and `compact`.
BEFORE:
```
〉[{a:1} {b:2} {a:3}] | select -i foo | to nuon
null
```
AFTER:
```
〉[{a:1} {b:2} {a:3}] | select -i foo | to nuon
[[foo]; [null], [null], [null]]
```
# User-Facing Changes
See above. EDIT: the issue with holes in cases like ` [{foo: 'bar'}
{}].foo.0` versus ` [{foo: 'bar'} {}].0.foo` has been resolved.
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# Description
Inspired by #7592
For brevity use `Value::test_{string,int,float,bool}`
Includes fixes to commands that were abusing `Span::test_data` in their
implementation. Now the call span is used where possible or the explicit
`Span::unknonw` is used.
## Command fixes
- Fix abuse of `Span::test_data()` in `query_xml`
- Fix abuse of `Span::test_data()` in `term size`
- Fix abuse of `Span::test_data()` in `seq date`
- Fix two abuses of `Span::test_data` in `nu-cli`
- Change `Span::test_data` to `Span::unknown` in `keybindings listen`
- Add proper call span to `registry query`
- Fix span use in `nu_plugin_query`
- Fix span assignment in `select`
- Use `Span::unknown` instead of `test_data` in more places
## Other
- Use `Value::test_int`/`test_float()` consistently
- More `test_string` and `test_bool`
- Fix unused imports
# User-Facing Changes
Some commands may now provide more helpful spans for downstream use in
errors
Closes#7572 by adding a cache for compiled regexes of type
`Arc<Mutex<LruCache<String, Regex>>>` to `EngineState` .
The cache is limited to 100 entries (limit chosen arbitrarily) and
evicts least-recently-used items first.
This PR makes a noticeable difference when using regexes for
`color_config`, e.g.:
```bash
#first set string formatting in config.nu like:
string: { if $in =~ '^#\w{6}$' { $in } else { 'white' } }`
# then try displaying and exploring a table with many strings
# this is instant after the PR, but takes hundreds of milliseconds before
['#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#4101ff', '#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff', '#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff', '#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff', '#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff','#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff','#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff','#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff','#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff','#ff0033', '#0025ee', '#0087aa', 'string', '#6103ff']
```
## New dependency (`lru`)
This uses [the popular `lru` crate](https://lib.rs/crates/lru). The new
dependency adds 19.8KB to a Linux release build of Nushell. I think this
is OK, especially since the crate can be useful elsewhere in Nu.
# Description
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I've been working on streaming and pipeline interruption lately. It was
bothering me that checking ctrl+c (something we want to do often) always
requires a bunch of boilerplate like:
```rust
use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
if let Some(ctrlc) = &engine_state.ctrlc {
if ctrlc.load(Ordering::SeqCst) {
...
```
I added a helper method to cut that down to:
```rust
if nu_utils::ctrl_c::was_pressed(&engine_state.ctrlc) {
...
```
# Description
Just spot that there are some duplicate code about checking external
runs to failed, is pr is trying to refactor it and reduce lines of code
# User-Facing Changes
NaN
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Reverts nushell/nushell#7448
Some surprising behavior in how we do this. For example:
```
〉if (true || false) { print "yes!" } else { print "no!" }
no!
〉if (true or false) { print "yes!" } else { print "no!" }
yes!
```
This means for folks who are using the old `||`, they possibly get the
wrong answer once they upgrade. I don't think we can ship with that as
it will catch too many people by surprise and just make it easier to
write buggy code.
# Description
We got some feedback from folks used to other shells that `try/catch`
isn't quite as convenient as things like `||`. This PR adds `&&` as a
synonym for `;` and `||` as equivalent to what `try/catch` would do.
# User-Facing Changes
Adds `&&` and `||` pipeline operators.
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# Description
While perusing Value.rs, I noticed the `Value::int()`, `Value::float()`,
`Value::boolean()` and `Value::string()` constructors, which seem
designed to make it easier to construct various Values, but which aren't
used often at all in the codebase. So, using a few find-replaces
regexes, I increased their usage. This reduces overall LOC because
structures like this:
```
Value::Int {
val: a,
span: head
}
```
are changed into
```
Value::int(a, head)
```
and are respected as such by the project's formatter.
There are little readability concerns because the second argument to all
of these is `span`, and it's almost always extremely obvious which is
the span at every callsite.
# User-Facing Changes
None.
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# Description
This fix changes pipelines to allow them to actually be empty. Mapping
over empty pipelines gives empty pipelines. Empty pipelines immediately
return `None` when iterated.
This removes a some of where `Span::new(0, 0)` was coming from, though
there are other cases where we still use it.
# User-Facing Changes
None
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# Description
Closes#7110. ~~Note that unlike "real" `mut` vars, $env can be deeply
mutated via stuff like `$env.PYTHON_IO_ENCODING = utf8` or
`$env.config.history.max_size = 2000`. So, it's a slightly awkward
special case, arguably justifiable because of what $env represents (the
environment variables of your system, which is essentially "outside"
normal Nushell regulations).~~
EDIT: Now allows all `mut` vars to be deeply mutated using `=`, on
request.
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# Description
After the 0.72.1 hotfix, let's bump our dev builds to 0.72.2.
# User-Facing Changes
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Also enforce this by #[non_exhaustive] span such that going forward we
cannot, in debug builds (1), construct invalid spans.
The motivation for this stems from #6431 where I've seen crashes due to
invalid slice indexing.
My hope is this will mitigate such senarios
1. https://github.com/nushell/nushell/pull/6431#issuecomment-1278147241
# Description
(description of your pull request here)
# Tests
Make sure you've done the following:
- [ ] Add tests that cover your changes, either in the command examples,
the crate/tests folder, or in the /tests folder.
- [ ] Try to think about corner cases and various ways how your changes
could break. Cover them with tests.
- [ ] If adding tests is not possible, please document in the PR body a
minimal example with steps on how to reproduce so one can verify your
change works.
Make sure you've run and fixed any issues with these commands:
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using the standard code style
- [ ] `cargo test --workspace --features=extra` to check that all the
tests pass
# Documentation
- [ ] If your PR touches a user-facing nushell feature then make sure
that there is an entry in the documentation
(https://github.com/nushell/nushell.github.io) for the feature, and
update it if necessary.
# Description
Closes: #6920
# User-Facing Changes
```
❯ "asdf" | save dump.rdb
Error:
× Destination file already exists
╭─[entry #21:1:1]
1 │ "asdf" | save dump.rdb
· ────┬───
· ╰── Destination file '/tmp/dump.rdb' already exists
╰────
help: you can use -f, --force to force overwriting the destination
```
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# Description
Just bumping to the next dev version. Submitting as a draft until we're
ready.
# User-Facing Changes
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# Description
_(Thank you for improving Nushell. Please, check our [contributing
guide](../CONTRIBUTING.md) and talk to the core team before making major
changes.)_
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# User-Facing Changes
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chrono version update
# Description
upgrade chrono to 0.4.23
# Major Changes
If you're considering making any major change to nushell, before
starting work on it, seek feedback from regular contributors and get
approval for the idea from the core team either on
[Discord](https://discordapp.com/invite/NtAbbGn) or [GitHub
issue](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/new/choose).
Making sure we're all on board with the change saves everybody's time.
Thanks!
# Tests + Formatting
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# After Submitting
* Help us keep the docs up to date: If your PR affects the user
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Co-authored-by: Darren Schroeder <343840+fdncred@users.noreply.github.com>
We already have the binary `bit-xor` and the shortcircuiting logical
`or`(`||`) and `and`(`&&`).
This introduces `xor` as a compact form for both brevity and clarity.
You can express the operation through `not`/`and`/`or` with a slight
risk of introducing bugs through typos.
Operator precedence
`and` > `xor` > `or`
Added logic and precedence tests.
# Description
This makes the help messages cleaner for keyword-style arguments.
Before:
```
(optional) else_expression <Keyword([101, 108, 115, 101], Expression)>: expression or block to run if check fails
```
Now:
```
(optional) "else" + <expression>: expression or block to run if check fails
```
# User-Facing Changes
Changes how help is printed, so we use slightly different shape names
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# Description
This adds `break`, `continue`, `return`, and `loop`.
* `break` - breaks out a loop
* `continue` - continues a loop at the next iteration
* `return` - early return from a function call
* `loop` - loop forever (until the loop hits a break)
Examples:
```
for i in 1..10 {
if $i == 5 {
continue
}
print $i
}
```
```
for i in 1..10 {
if $i == 5 {
break
}
print $i
}
```
```
def foo [x] {
if true {
return 2
}
$x
}
foo 100
```
```
loop { print "hello, forever" }
```
```
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5] | each {|x|
if $x > 3 { break }
$x
}
```
# User-Facing Changes
Adds the above commands.
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# Description
This is a set of fixes to `err>` to make it work a bit more predictably.
I've also revised the tests, which accidentally tested the wrong thing
for redirection, but should be more correct now.
# User-Facing Changes
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# Description
As title, when execute external sub command, auto-trimming end
new-lines, like how fish shell does.
And if the command is executed directly like: `cat tmp`, the result
won't change.
Fixes: #6816Fixes: #3980
Note that although nushell works correctly by directly replace output of
external command to variable(or other places like string interpolation),
it's not friendly to user, and users almost want to use `str trim` to
trim trailing newline, I think that's why fish shell do this
automatically.
If the pr is ok, as a result, no more `str trim -r` is required when
user is writing scripts which using external commands.
# User-Facing Changes
Before:
<img width="523" alt="img"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22256154/202468810-86b04dbb-c147-459a-96a5-e0095eeaab3d.png">
After:
<img width="505" alt="img"
src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/22256154/202468599-7b537488-3d6b-458e-9d75-d85780826db0.png">
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# Description
Spotted by @WindSoilder - don't redirect stdout if the user requests
`err>`.
# User-Facing Changes
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us keep track of breaking changes.)_
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This adds new pipeline connectors called out> and err> which redirect either stdout or stderr to a file. You can also use out+err> (or err+out>) to redirect both streams into a file.
* add signature information when help on one command
* tell user that one command support operated on cell paths
Also, make type output to be more friendly, like `record<>` should just be `record`
And the same to `table<>`, which should be `table`
* simplify code
* don't show signatures for parser keyword
* update comment
* output arg syntax shape as type, so it's the same as describe command
* fix string when no positional args
* update signature body
* update
* add help signature test
* fix arg output format for composed data type like list or record
* fix clippy
* add comment
* Add input and output types to $nu.scope.commands
This commit changes the schema: instead of
command.signature: table
we now have
command.signatures: list<table>
with one signature for every input-output type pair.
* Represent signatures as a map from input_type to signature
* Sort signature entries
* Drop command name from signature tables
* Don't use "rest" as name of rest parameter; use empty string instead
* Bug fix: was creating records with repeated keys
E.g.
$nu.scope.commands | where name == 'hash sha256' | get signatures.0 | table -e
$nu.scope.commands | where name == 'transpose' | get signatures.0 | table -e
* removes unused features.
* Adds back multithreading feature to sysinfo.
* Adds back alloc for percent-encoding
* Adds updated lock file.
* Missed one sysinfo.
* `indexmap` just defaults
* Revert `miette``default-features=false`
Co-authored-by: Stefan Holderbach <sholderbach@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: JT <547158+jntrnr@users.noreply.github.com>
This adds support for (limited) mutable variables. Mutable variables are created with mut much the same way immutable variables are made with let.
Mutable variables allow mutation via the assignment operator (=).
❯ mut x = 100
❯ $x = 200
❯ print $x
200
Mutable variables are limited in that they're only tended to be used in the local code block. Trying to capture a local variable will result in an error:
❯ mut x = 123; {|| $x }
Error: nu::parser::expected_keyword (link)
× Capture of mutable variable.
The intent of this limitation is to reduce some of the issues with mutable variables in general: namely they make code that's harder to reason about. By reducing the scope that a mutable variable can be used it, we can help create local reasoning about them.
Mutation can occur with fields as well, as in this case:
❯ mut y = {abc: 123}
❯ $y.abc = 456
❯ $y
On a historical note: mutable variables are something that we resisted for quite a long time, leaning as much as we could on the functional style of pipelines and dataflow. That said, we've watched folks struggle to work with reduce as an approximation for patterns that would be trivial to express with local mutation. With that in mind, we're leaning towards the happy path.
