Since VM::exception() no longer exists this is now useless. All of these
calls to clear_exception were just to clear the VM state after some
(potentially) failed evaluation and did not use the exception itself.
This includes:
- Parsing proper LabelledStatements with try_parse_labelled_statement()
- Removing LabelableStatement
- Implementing the LoopEvaluation semantics via loop_evaluation() in
each IterationStatement subclass; and IterationStatement evaluation
via {For,ForIn,ForOf,ForAwaitOf,While,DoWhile}Statement::execute()
- Updating ReturnStatement, BreakStatement and ContinueStatement to
return the appropriate completion types
- Basically reimplementing TryStatement and SwitchStatement according to
the spec, using completions
- Honoring result completion types in AsyncBlockStart and
OrdinaryCallEvaluateBody
- Removing any uses of the VM unwind mechanism - most importantly,
VM::throw_exception() now exclusively sets an exception and no longer
triggers any unwinding mechanism.
However, we already did a good job updating all of LibWeb and userland
applications to not use it, and the few remaining uses elsewhere don't
rely on unwinding AFAICT.
In the end this is a nicer API than having separate has_{value,target}()
and having to check those first, and then making another Optional from
the unwrapped value:
completion.has_value() ? completion.value() : Optional<Value> {}
// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
// Implicit creation of non-empty Optional<Value>
This way we need to unwrap the optional ourselves, but can easily pass
it to something else as well.
This is in anticipation of the AST using completions :^)
I wanted to do this for a long time. The guts of Promise are pretty
complex, and it's easier to understand with the spec right next to it.
Also found a couple of issues along the way :^)
These should all have a name with an empty string. Not only does test262
verify this, but it also verifies that (for the executor) the name
property is defined after the length property.
Almost everything in LibJS includes Cell.h, don't force all code to
include AK/TypeCasts.h + AK/String.h. Instead include them where they
are actually used and required.
As mentioned on Discord earlier, we'll add these to all new functions
going forward - this is the backfill. Reasons:
- It makes you look at the spec, implementing based on MDN or V8
behavior is a no-go
- It makes finding the various functions that are non-compliant easier,
in the future everything should either have such a comment or, if it's
not from the spec at all, a comment explaining why that is the case
- It makes it easier to check whether a certain abstract operation is
implemented in LibJS, not all of them use the same name as the spec.
E.g. RejectPromise() is Promise::reject()
- It makes it easier to reason about vm.arguments(), e.g. when the
function has a rest parameter
- It makes it easier to see whether a certain function is from a
proposal or Annex B
Also:
- Add arguments to all functions and abstract operations that already
had a comment
- Fix some outdated section numbers
- Replace some ecma-international.org URLs with tc39.es
SPDX License Identifiers are a more compact / standardized
way of representing file license information.
See: https://spdx.dev/resources/use/#identifiers
This was done with the `ambr` search and replace tool.
ambr --no-parent-ignore --key-from-file --rep-from-file key.txt rep.txt *
Almost a year after first working on this, it's finally done: an
implementation of Promises for LibJS! :^)
The core functionality is working and closely following the spec [1].
I mostly took the pseudo code and transformed it into C++ - if you read
and understand it, you will know how the spec implements Promises; and
if you read the spec first, the code will look very familiar.
Implemented functions are:
- Promise() constructor
- Promise.prototype.then()
- Promise.prototype.catch()
- Promise.prototype.finally()
- Promise.resolve()
- Promise.reject()
For the tests I added a new function to test-js's global object,
runQueuedPromiseJobs(), which calls vm.run_queued_promise_jobs().
By design, queued jobs normally only run after the script was fully
executed, making it improssible to test handlers in individual test()
calls by default [2].
Subsequent commits include integrations into LibWeb and js(1) -
pretty-printing, running queued promise jobs when necessary.
This has an unusual amount of dbgln() statements, all hidden behind the
PROMISE_DEBUG flag - I'm leaving them in for now as they've been very
useful while debugging this, things can get quite complex with so many
asynchronously executed functions.
I've not extensively explored use of these APIs for promise-based
functionality in LibWeb (fetch(), Notification.requestPermission()
etc.), but we'll get there in due time.
[1]: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-promise-objects
[2]: https://tc39.es/ecma262/#sec-jobs-and-job-queues
