This stuff is still evolving -- and I've put it on pause to make progress
on graph generation -- but I had these edits in my enlistment and didn't
want to lose them.
This change removes some ambiguity that existed in MuIL tokens given the
simplistic naming scheme of only using "/" as a delimiter. We could have
resolved this ambiguity through successive name bindings, but I prefer a
more deterministic approach. A module member token now delimits the
package/module name from the member name by a ":" character, as in
"aws/ec2:VM". Furthermore, when reexporting elements from the current
package/module, we will use the self-referential "." character, as in
".:VM".
The stacks.md document used to describe the metadata format. Now that we've
moved away from the old model of YAML + Go templates, and created the MuPack/MuIL
format, this document needed to be overhauled.
It's pretty bare bones now, however it will eventually evolve into a document
describing how the Mu abstractions map down onto MuPack/MuIL concepts. For example,
it describes how subclassing mu.Stack creates a "stack", even though at the MuPack/MuIL
level it's just any old subclass.
Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I've tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.
This change adopts some standard aspects of classes, like statics, abstract,
and virtuals (sealing). It also recognizes records and interfaces as explicit
annotations on classes (both of which can be called "conjurable"); they were
already being treated specially with respect to structural/duck conversions,
and I always hate inferring defining properties of types like this, since simple
edits can completely change the type's semantics and break consumers of it.
This change articulates Mu's packaging format, MuPack, along with its
corresponding intermediate language and type system, MuIL. This is very
much a work in progress.
