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ballerina-platform / nballerina

Ballerina compiler that generates native executables.

https://ballerina.io/

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Improve BIR #919

Open jclark opened 2 years ago

jclark commented 2 years ago

This is a tracking issue for improvements to nBallerina's BIR, particularly with a view to reuse in jBallerina.

[ ] Better approach to representing conditional type narrowing #883
[x] #920
[ ] Add support for closures #909
[x] #921
[ ] #926
[ ] #929
[x] #935
[ ] #928
[ ] Annotations
[ ] Default values for function calls
[ ] Default values for record fields

rdhananjaya commented 2 years ago

Jballerina employs a set of internal langlib functions, we should formalize them or find alternatives. https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang/tree/master/langlib/lang.__internal/src/main/ballerina

manuranga commented 2 years ago

Instruction set used in jballerina : https://github.com/ballerina-platform/ballerina-lang/blob/5ba7b3d3e9fb1929d0f11b78ea0614ffa44e9626/docs/bir-spec/src/main/resources/kaitai/bir.ksy#L1131

jclark commented 2 years ago

@rdhananjaya We also need to know how these internal functions are used. Some are obvious to me; some not. We will probably need a separate issue for this.