"var" declarations are hoisted to the nearest function scope, while
"let" and "const" are hoisted to the nearest block scope.
This is done by the parser, which keeps two scope stacks, one stack
for the current var scope and one for the current let/const scope.
When the interpreter enters a scope, we walk all of the declarations
and insert them into the variable environment.
We don't support the temporal dead zone for let/const yet.
Many other parsers call it with this name.
Also Type can be confusing in this context since the DeclarationType is
not the type (number, string, etc.) of the variables that are being
declared by the VariableDeclaration.
While debugging test failures, it's pretty frustrating to have to go do
printf debugging to figure out what test is failing right now. While
watching your JS Raytracer stream it seemed like this was pretty
furstrating as well. So I wanted to start working on improving the
diagnostics here.
In the future I hope we can eventually be able to plumb the info down
to the Error classes so any thrown exceptions will contain enough
metadata to know where they came from.
This patch adds support in the parser and interpreter for this:
var a = 1, b = 2, c = a + b;
VariableDeclaration is now a sequence of VariableDeclarators. :^)
The Lexer and AST already have all the functionality required in place,
so this is just updating Parser::match_secondary_expression() and
Parser::parse_expression() to handle TokenType::{Ampersand,Pipe,Caret},
as well as adding some tests.
There is no such thing as a "undefined literal" in JS - undefined is
just a property on the global object with a value of undefined.
This is pretty similar to NaN.
var undefined = "foo"; is a perfectly fine AssignmentExpression :^)
These functions allow us to try to parse ambiguous expressions (such as
arrow function arguments in parentheses), and
rewind the state of the Parser if an expression candidate failed to
parse.
This operator walks the prototype chain of the RHS value and looks for
a "prototype" property with the same value as the prototype of the LHS.
This is pretty cool. :^)
NewExpression mostly piggybacks on the existing CallExpression. The big
difference is that "new" creates a new Object and passes it as |this|
to the callee.
Unary expressions parsing now respects precedence and associativity of
operators. This patch also makes `typeof` left-associative which was
an oversight.
Thanks to Conrad for helping me work this out. :^)
You can now throw an expression to the nearest catcher! :^)
To support throwing arbitrary values, I added an Exception class that
sits as a wrapper around whatever is thrown. In the future it will be
a logical place to store a call stack.
We can now handle scripts with if/else in LibJS. Most of the changes
are about fixing IfStatement to store the consequent and alternate node
as Statements.
Interpreter now also runs Statements, rather than running ScopeNodes.
FunctionExpression is mostly like FunctionDeclaration, except the name
is optional. Share the parsing logic in parse_function_node<NodeType>.
This allows us to do nice things like:
document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", function() {
alert("Hello friends!");
});
