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Add closure parsing to at-spawn #423

Open jpsamaroo opened 1 year ago

jpsamaroo commented 1 year ago

This PR brings Dagger.@spawn closer to Threads.@spawn by allowing an alternative parsing mode when begin ... end blocks are encountered; specifically, such blocks are treated as a function without any arguments, which closes over any captured values.

Todo:

[ ] Detect closed-over variables (if possible) and pass them as arguments, in case they're thunks/chunks
[ ] (Alternative) Recurse into closure at runtime to find thunks/chunks and replace them during move
[ ] (Optional) Implement recursive parsing mode
[ ] Add tests
[ ] Add docs

Fixes #421