Added some useful type checking thigns to literals

analyzer/argument.go

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ type Argument interface {
 	// RuneLiteral
 
 	ToString (indent int) (output string)
+	canBePassedAs (what Type) (allowed bool)
 }
 
 // analyzeArgument analyzes an argument

analyzer/literals.go

@@ -14,24 +14,118 @@ func (literal IntLiteral) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 	return
 }
 
+// canBePassedAs returns true if this literal can be implicitly cast to the
+// specified type, and false if it can't.
+func (literal IntLiteral) canBePassedAs (what Type) (allowed bool) {
+	// must be a singlular value
+	if what.length != 1 { return }
+	
+	// can be passed to types that are signed numbers at a primitive level.
+	primitive := what.underlyingPrimitive()
+	switch primitive {
+	case
+		&PrimitiveF64,
+		&PrimitiveF32,
+		&PrimitiveI64,
+		&PrimitiveI32,
+		&PrimitiveI16,
+		&PrimitiveI8,
+		&PrimitiveInt:
+
+		allowed = true
+	}
+	return
+}
+
 // ToString outputs the data in the argument as a string.
 func (literal UIntLiteral) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 	output += doIndent(indent, fmt.Sprint("arg uint ", literal, "\n"))
 	return
 }
 
+// canBePassedAs returns true if this literal can be implicitly cast to the
+// specified type, and false if it can't.
+func (literal UIntLiteral) canBePassedAs (what Type) (allowed bool) {
+	// must be a singlular value
+	if what.length != 1 { return }
+	
+	// can be passed to types that are numbers at a primitive level.
+	primitive := what.underlyingPrimitive()
+	switch primitive {
+	case
+		&PrimitiveF64,
+		&PrimitiveF32,
+		&PrimitiveI64,
+		&PrimitiveI32,
+		&PrimitiveI16,
+		&PrimitiveI8,
+		&PrimitiveInt,
+		&PrimitiveU64,
+		&PrimitiveU32,
+		&PrimitiveU16,
+		&PrimitiveU8,
+		&PrimitiveUInt:
+
+		allowed = true
+	}
+	return
+}
+
 // ToString outputs the data in the argument as a string.
 func (literal FloatLiteral) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 	output += doIndent(indent, fmt.Sprint("arg float ", literal, "\n"))
 	return
 }
 
+// canBePassedAs returns true if this literal can be implicitly cast to the
+// specified type, and false if it can't.
+func (literal FloatLiteral) canBePassedAs (what Type) (allowed bool) {
+	// must be a singlular value
+	if what.length != 1 { return }
+
+	// can be passed to types that are floats at a primitive level.
+	primitive := what.underlyingPrimitive()
+	switch primitive {
+	case
+		&PrimitiveF64,
+		&PrimitiveF32:
+
+		allowed = true
+	}
+	return
+}
+
 // ToString outputs the data in the argument as a string.
 func (literal StringLiteral) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 	output += doIndent(indent, fmt.Sprint("arg string \"", literal, "\"\n"))
 	return
 }
 
+// canBePassedAs returns true if this literal can be implicitly cast to the
+// specified type, and false if it can't.
+func (literal StringLiteral) canBePassedAs (what Type) (allowed bool) {
+	// can be passed to types that are numbers at a primitive level.
+	primitive := what.underlyingPrimitive()
+	switch primitive {
+	case
+		&PrimitiveF64,
+		&PrimitiveF32,
+		&PrimitiveI64,
+		&PrimitiveI32,
+		&PrimitiveI16,
+		&PrimitiveI8,
+		&PrimitiveInt,
+		&PrimitiveU64,
+		&PrimitiveU32,
+		&PrimitiveU16,
+		&PrimitiveU8,
+		&PrimitiveUInt:
+
+		allowed = true
+	}
+	return
+}
+
 // ToString outputs the data in the argument as a string.
 func (literal RuneLiteral) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 	output += doIndent(indent, fmt.Sprint("arg rune '", literal, "'\n"))

analyzer/primitives.go

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ package analyzer
 
 // This is a global, cannonical list of primitive and built-in types.
 
+var PrimitiveF32  = createPrimitive("Int",  Type {})
+var PrimitiveF64  = createPrimitive("Int",  Type {})
 var PrimitiveInt  = createPrimitive("Int",  Type {})
 var PrimitiveUInt = createPrimitive("UInt", Type {})
 var PrimitiveI8   = createPrimitive("I8",   Type {})

analyzer/type.go

@@ -16,21 +16,20 @@ const (
 
 	// TypeKindVariableArray means it's an array of variable length.
 	TypeKindVariableArray
-
-	// TypeKindObject means it's a structured type with members.
-	TypeKindObject
 )
 
 // Type represents a description of a type. It must eventually point to a
 // TypeSection.
 type Type struct {
 	// one of these must be nil.
-	actual Section
+	actual *TypeSection
 	points *Type
 
 	mutable bool
 	kind TypeKind
 
+	primitiveCache *TypeSection
+
 	// if this is greater than 1, it means that this is a fixed-length array
 	// of whatever the type is. even if the type is a variable length array.
 	// because literally why not.
@@ -52,8 +51,6 @@ func (what Type) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 		output += " pointer"
 	case TypeKindVariableArray:
 		output += " variableArray"
-	case TypeKindObject:
-		output += " object"
 	}
 
 	if what.points != nil {
@@ -70,6 +67,78 @@ func (what Type) ToString (indent int) (output string) {
 	return
 }
 
+// underlyingPrimitive returns the primitive that this type eventually inherits
+// from.
+func (what Type) underlyingPrimitive () (underlying *TypeSection) {
+	// if we have already done this operation, return the cahced result.
+	if what.primitiveCache != nil {
+		underlying = what.primitiveCache
+		return
+	}
+
+	if what.kind != TypeKindBasic {
+		// if we point to something, return nil because there is no void
+		// pointer bullshit in this language
+		return
+	}
+
+	actual := what.actual
+	switch actual {
+	case
+		&PrimitiveF32,
+		&PrimitiveF64,
+		&PrimitiveFunc,
+		&PrimitiveFace,
+		&PrimitiveObj,
+		&PrimitiveU64,
+		&PrimitiveU32,
+		&PrimitiveU16,
+		&PrimitiveU8,
+		&PrimitiveI64,
+		&PrimitiveI32,
+		&PrimitiveI16,
+		&PrimitiveI8,
+		&PrimitiveUInt,
+		&PrimitiveInt:
+
+		underlying = actual
+		return
+	
+	case nil:
+		panic("invalid state: Type.actual is nil")
+
+	default:
+		// if none of the primitives matched, recurse.
+		underlying = actual.what.underlyingPrimitive()
+		return
+	}
+}
+
+// reduce ascends up the inheritence chain and gets the first type it finds that
+// isn't basic. If the type has a clear path of inheritence to a simple
+// primitive, there will be no non-basic types in the chain and this method will
+// return false for reducible. If the type this method is called on is not
+// basic, it itself is returned.
+func (what Type) reduce () (reduced Type, reducible bool) {
+	reducible = true
+
+	// returns itself if it is not basic (cannot be reduced further)
+	if what.kind != TypeKindBasic {
+		reduced = what
+		return
+	}
+
+	// if we can't recurse, return false for reducible
+	if what.actual == nil {
+		reducible = false
+		return
+	}
+
+	// otherwise, recurse
+	reduced, reducible = what.actual.what.reduce()
+	return
+}
+
 // analyzeType analyzes a type specifier.
 func (analyzer AnalysisOperation) analyzeType (
 	inputType parser.Type,
@@ -93,9 +162,13 @@ func (analyzer AnalysisOperation) analyzeType (
 		outputType.points = &points
 	} else {
 		var bitten parser.Identifier
-		outputType.actual,
+		var actual Section
+		actual,
 		bitten,
 		err = analyzer.fetchSectionFromIdentifier(inputType.Name())
+
+		outputType.actual = actual.(*TypeSection)
+		// TODO: produce an error if this doesnt work
 		
 		if bitten.Length() > 0 {
 			err = bitten.NewError(