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`do` syntax is represented in `Expr` with the `do` outside the call.
This makes some sense syntactically (do appears as "an operator" after
the function call).

However semantically this nesting is awkward because the lambda
represented by the do block is passed to the call. This same problem
occurs for the macro form `@f(x) do \n body end` where the macro
expander needs a special rule to expand nestings of the form
`Expr(:do, Expr(:macrocall ...), ...)`, rearranging the expression which
are passed to this macro call rather than passing the expressions up the
tree.

In this PR, we change the parsing of

    @f(x, y) do a, b\n body\n end
    f(x, y) do a, b\n body\n end

to tack the `do` onto the end of the call argument list:

    (macrocall @f x y (do (tuple a b) body))
    (call f x y (do (tuple a b) body))

This achieves the following desirable properties
1. Content of `do` is nested inside the call which improves the match
   between AST and semantics
2. Macro can be passed the syntax as-is rather than the macro expander
   rearranging syntax before passing it to the macro
3. In the future, a macro can detect when it's being passed do syntax
   rather than lambda syntax
4. `do` head is used uniformly for both call and macrocall
5. We preserve the source ordering properties we need for the green tree.
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42 changes: 28 additions & 14 deletions docs/src/reference.md
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* The right hand side of `x where {T}` retains the `K"braces"` node around the `T` to distinguish it from `x where T`.
* Ternary syntax is not immediately lowered to an `if` node: `a ? b : c` parses as `(? a b c)` rather than `Expr(:if, :a, :b, :c)` (#85)
* `global const` and `const global` are not normalized by the parser. This is done in `Expr` conversion (#130)
* The AST for `do` is flatter and not lowered to a lambda by the parser: `f(x) do y ; body end` is parsed as `(do (call f x) (tuple y) (block body))` (#98)
* [`do` syntax](#Do-blocks) is nested as the last child of the call which the `do` lambda will be passed to (#98, #322)
* `@.` is not lowered to `@__dot__` inside the parser (#146)
* Docstrings use the `K"doc"` kind, and are not lowered to `Core.@doc` until later (#217)
* Juxtaposition uses the `K"juxtapose"` kind rather than lowering immediately to `*` (#220)
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* We use flags rather than child nodes to represent the difference between `struct` and `mutable struct`, `module` and `baremodule` (#220)
* Multiple iterations within the header of a `for`, as in `for a=as, b=bs body end` are represented with a `cartesian_iterator` head rather than a `block`, as these lists of iterators are neither semantically nor syntactically a sequence of statements. Unlike other uses of `block` (see also generators).


## More detail on tree differences

### Generators
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regardless of whether they have multiple pieces (due to triple-quoted
dedenting) or otherwise.

### No desugaring of the closure in do blocks
### Do blocks

The reference parser represents `do` syntax with a closure for the second
argument. That is,
`do` syntax is represented in the `Expr` AST with the `do` outside the call.
This makes some sense syntactically (do appears as "an operator" after the
function call).

```julia
f(x) do y
body
end
```
However semantically this nesting is awkward because the lambda represented by
the do block is passed to the call. This same problem occurs for the macro form
`@f(x) do \n body end` where the macro expander needs a special rule to expand
nestings of the form `Expr(:do, Expr(:macrocall ...), ...)`, rearranging the
expression which are passed to this macro call rather than passing the
expressions up the tree.

The implied closure is also lowered to a nested `Expr(:->)` expression, though
it this somewhat premature to do this during parsing.

To resolve these problems we parse

@f(x, y) do a, b\n body\n end
f(x, y) do a, b\n body\n end

becomes `(do (call f x) (-> (tuple y) (block body)))` in the reference parser.
by tacking the `do` onto the end of the call argument list:

However, the nested closure with `->` head is implied here rather than present
in the surface syntax, which suggests this is a premature desugaring step.
Instead we emit the flatter structure `(do (call f x) (tuple y) (block body))`.
(macrocall @f x y (do (tuple a b) body))
(call f x y (do (tuple a b) body))

This achieves the following desirable properties
1. Content of `do` is nested inside the call which improves the match between AST and semantics
2. Macro can be passed the syntax as-is rather than the macro expander rearranging syntax before passing it to the macro
3. In the future, a macro can detect when it's being passed do syntax rather than lambda syntax
4. `do` head is used uniformly for both call and macrocall
5. We preserve the source ordering properties we need for the green tree.

## Tree structure reference

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23 changes: 21 additions & 2 deletions src/expr.jl
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Expand Up @@ -184,6 +184,16 @@ function _fixup_Expr_children!(head, loc, args)
return args
end

# Remove the `do` block from the final position in a function/macro call arg list
function _extract_do_lambda!(args)
if length(args) > 1 && Meta.isexpr(args[end], :do_lambda)
do_ex = pop!(args)::Expr
return Expr(:->, do_ex.args...)
else
return nothing
end
end

# Convert internal node of the JuliaSyntax parse tree to an Expr
function _internal_node_to_Expr(source, srcrange, head, childranges, childheads, args)
k = kind(head)
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end
end
elseif k == K"macrocall"
do_lambda = _extract_do_lambda!(args)
_reorder_parameters!(args, 2)
insert!(args, 2, loc)
if do_lambda isa Expr
return Expr(:do, Expr(headsym, args...), do_lambda)
end
elseif k == K"block" || (k == K"toplevel" && !has_flags(head, TOPLEVEL_SEMICOLONS_FLAG))
if isempty(args)
push!(args, loc)
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popfirst!(args)
headsym = Symbol("'")
end
do_lambda = _extract_do_lambda!(args)
# Move parameters blocks to args[2]
_reorder_parameters!(args, 2)
if headsym === :dotcall
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args[1] = Symbol(".", args[1])
end
end
if do_lambda isa Expr
return Expr(:do, Expr(headsym, args...), do_lambda)
end
elseif k == K"."
if length(args) == 2
a2 = args[2]
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# as inert QuoteNode rather than in `Expr(:quote)` quasiquote
return QuoteNode(a1)
end
elseif k == K"do" && length(args) == 3
return Expr(:do, args[1], Expr(:->, args[2], args[3]))
elseif k == K"do"
# Temporary head which is picked up by _extract_do_lambda
headsym = :do_lambda
elseif k == K"let"
a1 = args[1]
if @isexpr(a1, :block)
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17 changes: 9 additions & 8 deletions src/parser.jl
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Expand Up @@ -1510,12 +1510,12 @@ function parse_call_chain(ps::ParseState, mark, is_macrocall=false)
bump_disallowed_space(ps)
bump(ps, TRIVIA_FLAG)
parse_call_arglist(ps, K")")
emit(ps, mark, is_macrocall ? K"macrocall" : K"call",
is_macrocall ? PARENS_FLAG : EMPTY_FLAGS)
if peek(ps) == K"do"
# f(x) do y body end ==> (do (call f x) (tuple y) (block body))
parse_do(ps, mark)
# f(x) do y body end ==> (call f x (do (tuple y) (block body)))
parse_do(ps)
end
emit(ps, mark, is_macrocall ? K"macrocall" : K"call",
is_macrocall ? PARENS_FLAG : EMPTY_FLAGS)
if is_macrocall
# @x(a, b) ==> (macrocall-p @x a b)
# A.@x(y) ==> (macrocall-p (. A @x) y)
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end

# flisp: parse-do
function parse_do(ps::ParseState, mark)
function parse_do(ps::ParseState)
mark = position(ps)
bump(ps, TRIVIA_FLAG) # do
ps = normal_context(ps)
m = position(ps)
if peek(ps) in KSet"NewlineWs ;"
# f() do\nend ==> (do (call f) (tuple) (block))
# f() do ; body end ==> (do (call f) (tuple) (block body))
# f() do\nend ==> (call f (do (tuple) (block)))
# f() do ; body end ==> (call f (do (tuple) (block body)))
# this trivia needs to go into the tuple due to the way position()
# works.
bump(ps, TRIVIA_FLAG)
else
# f() do x, y\n body end ==> (do (call f) (tuple x y) (block body))
# f() do x, y\n body end ==> (call f (do (tuple x y) (block body)))
parse_comma_separated(ps, parse_range)
end
emit(ps, m, K"tuple")
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32 changes: 30 additions & 2 deletions test/expr.jl
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@testset "do block conversion" begin
@test parsestmt("f(x) do y\n body end") ==
Expr(:do, Expr(:call, :f, :x),
Expr(:do,
Expr(:call, :f, :x),
Expr(:->, Expr(:tuple, :y),
Expr(:block,
LineNumberNode(2),
:body)))

@test parsestmt("@f(x) do y body end") ==
Expr(:do,
Expr(:macrocall, Symbol("@f"), LineNumberNode(1), :x),
Expr(:->, Expr(:tuple, :y),
Expr(:block,
LineNumberNode(1),
:body)))

@test parsestmt("f(x; a=1) do y body end") ==
Expr(:do,
Expr(:call, :f, Expr(:parameters, Expr(:kw, :a, 1)), :x),
Expr(:->, Expr(:tuple, :y),
Expr(:block,
LineNumberNode(1),
:body)))

# Test calls with do inside them
@test parsestmt("g(f(x) do y\n body end)") ==
Expr(:call,
:g,
Expr(:do,
Expr(:call, :f, :x),
Expr(:->, Expr(:tuple, :y),
Expr(:block,
LineNumberNode(2),
:body))))
end

@testset "= to Expr(:kw) conversion" begin
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@test parsestmt("(x", ignore_errors=true) ==
Expr(:block, :x, Expr(:error))
@test parsestmt("x do", ignore_errors=true) ==
Expr(:block, :x, Expr(:error, Expr(:do)))
Expr(:block, :x, Expr(:error, Expr(:do_lambda)))
end

@testset "import" begin
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9 changes: 5 additions & 4 deletions test/parser.jl
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Expand Up @@ -355,10 +355,11 @@ tests = [
"A.@x(y)" => "(macrocall-p (. A @x) y)"
"A.@x(y).z" => "(. (macrocall-p (. A @x) y) z)"
# do
"f() do\nend" => "(do (call f) (tuple) (block))"
"f() do ; body end" => "(do (call f) (tuple) (block body))"
"f() do x, y\n body end" => "(do (call f) (tuple x y) (block body))"
"f(x) do y body end" => "(do (call f x) (tuple y) (block body))"
"f() do\nend" => "(call f (do (tuple) (block)))"
"f() do ; body end" => "(call f (do (tuple) (block body)))"
"f() do x, y\n body end" => "(call f (do (tuple x y) (block body)))"
"f(x) do y body end" => "(call f x (do (tuple y) (block body)))"
"@f(x) do y body end" => "(macrocall-p @f x (do (tuple y) (block body)))"

# square brackets
"@S[a,b]" => "(macrocall @S (vect a b))"
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