Paul Berry
a42244f73b
This CL implements the core flow analysis infrastructure for tracking
reasons why an expression was not promoted. It supports the following
reasons:
- Expression was a property access
- Expression has been written to since it was promoted
I expect to add support for other non-promotion reasons in the future,
for example:
- `this` cannot be promoted
- Expression has been write captured
- Expression was a reference to a static field or top level variable
These non-promotion reasons are plumbed through to the CFE and
analyzer for the purpose of making errors easier for the user to
understand. For example, given the following code:
class C {
int? i;
f() {
if (i == null) return;
print(i.isEven);
}
}
The front end now prints:
../../tmp/test.dart:5:13: Error: Property 'isEven' cannot be accessed on 'int?' because it is potentially null.
Try accessing using ?. instead.
print(i.isEven);
^^^^^^
Context: 'i' refers to a property so it could not be promoted.
Much work still needs to be done to round out this feature, for example:
- Currently the analyzer only shows the new "why not promoted"
messages when the "--verbose" flag is specified; this means the
feature is unlikely to be noticed by users.
- Currently the analyzer doesn't show a "why not promoted" message
when the non-promotion reason is that the expression is a property
access.
- We need one or more web pages explaining non-promotion reasons in
more detail so that the error messages can contain pointers to them.
- The analyzer and front end currently only show non-promotion reasons
for expressions of the form `x.y` where `x` fails to be promoted to
non-nullable. There are many other scenarios that should be
handled.
Change-Id: I0a12df74d0fc6274dfb3cb555abea81a75884231
Bug: https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk/issues/38773
Reviewed-on: https://dart-review.googlesource.com/c/sdk/+/181741
Commit-Queue: Paul Berry <paulberry@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Konstantin Shcheglov <scheglov@google.com>
FE/analyzer shared code
This package contains logic that is shared between the front_end and analyzer packages. It is intended solely to facilitate development of the Dart SDK, and is not intended for use by end users. In particular, this package has no public API, so no guarantee is made of compatibility between one version of the package and the next.
End users should consider using the analyzer package to analyze Dart source code.