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Add support for literal Byte and Short values. #12
Add support for literal Byte and Short values. #12
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This commit reserves the [zZ] and [sS] suffixes for Byte and Short literals, respectively. These work exactly like Long literals, which were already denoted with [lL]. For example, you can say: val zero = 0Z val bytes = List(23Z, 23Z, 0Z, 0Z, 111Z, -54Z, 19Z, 17Z) This commit does not permit literal unsigned bytes, so 255Z and 0xffZ are not legal. The choice of Z may seem strange, but B will not work for hex constants (0x10B would be ambiguous) so Z seemed like a good choice.
As the commit's author, I say 👍 |
Someone please fix my ignorance, but doesn't the |
@djspiewak Did you see the commit message? |
What? Reading justifications?! Pshshshshshsh. :-) That does make sense; thanks. |
Add support for literal Byte and Short values.
@puffnfresh Weren't we waiting for CI etc. before merging? |
@Blaisorblade this is a commit which we tested pretty well a few months ago. I'll definitely be waiting for CI before doing much more. |
Automate release: settings for dependency versions.
Alright, sorry for the noise! |
Did the Z suffix come out of some searching around or is it (pseudo) random? For example, here is what #fsharp has and they do cover a lot of cases http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233193.aspx. What does Haskell say on this? Other languages? |
We chose it because A-F aren't available, and because it's associated with the Integers in math (even though we're using it to represent a tiny subset of them). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer |
Top level modules in Scala currently desugar as: ``` class C; object O extends C { toString } ``` ``` public final class O$ extends C { public static final O$ MODULE$; public static {}; Code: 0: new #2 // class O$ 3: invokespecial #12 // Method "<init>":()V 6: return private O$(); Code: 0: aload_0 1: invokespecial #13 // Method C."<init>":()V 4: aload_0 5: putstatic #15 // Field MODULE$:LO$; 8: aload_0 9: invokevirtual #21 // Method java/lang/Object.toString:()Ljava/lang/String; 12: pop 13: return } ``` The static initalizer `<clinit>` calls the constructor `<init>`, which invokes superclass constructor, assigns `MODULE$= this`, and then runs the remainder of the object's constructor (`toString` in the example above.) It turns out that this relies on a bug in the JVM's verifier: assignment to a static final must occur lexically within the <clinit>, not from within `<init>` (even if the latter is happens to be called by the former). I'd like to move the assignment to <clinit> but that would change behaviour of "benign" cyclic references between modules. Example: ``` package p1; class CC { def foo = O.bar}; object O {new CC().foo; def bar = println(1)}; // Exiting paste mode, now interpreting. scala> p1.O 1 ``` This relies on the way that we assign MODULE$ field after the super class constructors are finished, but before the rest of the module constructor is called. Instead, this commit removes the ACC_FINAL bit from the field. It actually wasn't behaving as final at all, precisely the issue that the stricter verifier now alerts us to. ``` scala> :paste -raw // Entering paste mode (ctrl-D to finish) package p1; object O // Exiting paste mode, now interpreting. scala> val O1 = p1.O O1: p1.O.type = p1.O$@ee7d9f1 scala> scala.reflect.ensureAccessible(p1.O.getClass.getDeclaredConstructor()).newInstance() res0: p1.O.type = p1.O$@64cee07 scala> O1 eq p1.O res1: Boolean = false ``` We will still achieve safe publication of the assignment to other threads by virtue of the fact that `<clinit>` is executed within the scope of an initlization lock, as specified by: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-5.html#jvms-5.5 Fixes scala/scala-dev#SD-194
This commit reserves the [zZ] and [sS] suffixes for Byte and
Short literals, respectively. These work exactly like Long
literals, which were already denoted with [lL].
For example, you can say:
This commit does not permit literal unsigned bytes, so 255Z and
0xffZ are not legal.
The choice of Z may seem strange, but B will not work for
hex constants (0x10B would be ambiguous) so Z seemed like a
good choice.