Nicolo Davis (Jan 24 2024 at 05:50): Nicolo Davis (Jan 24 2024 at 05:50):Are the Roc compiler's intermediate representations documented somewhere? I've been digging in the "mono" crate. Any other parts of the source repo I should be looking at?
Brendan Hansknecht (Jan 24 2024 at 05:51):Not a direct answer, but I generally explore them by using the goto definition feature of my editor
Brendan Hansknecht (Jan 24 2024 at 05:52):For Mono, the type definition of Stmt and Expr are the most important
Brendan Hansknecht (Jan 24 2024 at 05:53):What in general are you trying to figure out?
Nicolo Davis (Jan 24 2024 at 05:55):Just generally interested in seeing how the source is transformed, and also curious about how effects are represented internally.
Brendan Hansknecht (Jan 24 2024 at 05:56):Currently, they really are just cffi with extra rules. Once effect interpreters are standard, it will essentially be the same as an async task in a language like rust.
Nicolo Davis (Jan 24 2024 at 06:01):Oh, I see. I assumed that some sort of continuation would need to be captured in the IR. Is that not the case?
Brendan Hansknecht (Jan 24 2024 at 06:41):There is a continuation, but it really is just. Make continuation, call function with cffi, run continuation with result.
Nicolo Davis (Jan 24 2024 at 07:10):Got it. Thanks for the info!
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