vim9script
var Foo = true ? (x: number): number => x : (x: number): number => x
echo Foo(10)
(this returns 10 in Vim 9)
This is currently compiled into this Lua code:
local vim9 = require('_vim9script')
local M = {}
local Foo = nil
-- vim9script
Foo = vim9.ternary(true, function(x)
return x
end, function(x)
return x
end)
print(Foo(10))
return M
... which throws an error for me:
Error detected while processing /Users/joomy/work/vim9jit/ex/bug.vim:
line 3:
E5108: Error executing lua ./bug.lua:19: attempt to call local 'Foo' (a nil value)
stack traceback:
./bug.lua:19: in function 'autoload'
[string "luaeval()"]:1: in main chunk
But even without that, even an identifier can evaluate to a function, which will make type(if_true) == 'function' true in the ternary implementation in Lua. This identifier can come from outside, so you cannot determine whether a term has side effects syntactically.
The solution seems to be making ternary expression generation wrap the branches in function() return .. end all the time. (Lua doesn't seem to have lazy and/or either so that also doesn't work).
Consider the following vim9script code:
(this returns 10 in Vim 9)
This is currently compiled into this Lua code:
... which throws an error for me:
(line 19 is the
print(Foo(10))
line)Given how
ternary
is implemented in_vim9script.lua
, as long as the inputs to ternary are functions, they are called with no arguments: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit/blob/af7d608a6a60077900b9954800761e2bfa4b7b11/lua/_vim9script.lua#L14-L28And the "suspender" functions are only used if the branches of the ternary expressions have side effects: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit/blob/af7d608a6a60077900b9954800761e2bfa4b7b11/crates/vim9-gen/src/lib.rs#L1275-L1294 and lambda expressions are considered not to have side effects: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit/blob/af7d608a6a60077900b9954800761e2bfa4b7b11/crates/vim9-gen/src/lib.rs#L1249
But even without that, even an identifier can evaluate to a function, which will make
type(if_true) == 'function'
true in theternary
implementation in Lua. This identifier can come from outside, so you cannot determine whether a term has side effects syntactically.The solution seems to be making ternary expression generation wrap the branches in
function() return .. end
all the time. (Lua doesn't seem to have lazyand
/or
either so that also doesn't work).