resolve ^Type hint to canonical class name in var :tag

(def ^String tv ...) left (:tag (meta (var tv))) as the unresolved "String";
the JVM compiler resolves the hint to java.lang.String at def time. Add a
resolve-class-hint host seam (built from the existing class-token table) and
resolve a def's :tag through it in the analyzer. The reader path
(read-string "^String x") stays unresolved, matching the JVM (only the
compiler resolves). Closes ^Type-tag-on-var.
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Yogthos 2026-06-21 23:52:47 -04:00
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commit 7db5fabc8d
5 changed files with 32 additions and 9 deletions

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@ -34,11 +34,11 @@
(def-var! "clojure.core" "class" jolt-class)
;; bare class-name tokens -> canonical JVM class-name strings.
(for-each
(lambda (pair) (def-var! "clojure.core" (car pair) (cdr pair)))
(define class-token-alist
'(("String" . "java.lang.String") ("Number" . "java.lang.Number")
("Boolean" . "java.lang.Boolean") ("Long" . "java.lang.Long")
("Integer" . "java.lang.Integer") ("Double" . "java.lang.Double")
("Object" . "java.lang.Object") ("Character" . "java.lang.Character")
("InputStream" . "java.io.InputStream") ("OutputStream" . "java.io.OutputStream")
("File" . "java.io.File") ("Reader" . "java.io.Reader") ("Writer" . "java.io.Writer")
("ISeq" . "clojure.lang.ISeq") ("Keyword" . "clojure.lang.Keyword")
@ -51,6 +51,18 @@
("IllegalArgumentException" . "java.lang.IllegalArgumentException")
("InterruptedException" . "java.lang.InterruptedException")
("Throwable" . "java.lang.Throwable")))
(for-each
(lambda (pair) (def-var! "clojure.core" (car pair) (cdr pair)))
class-token-alist)
;; resolve a ^Type hint symbol-name to its canonical class name at def time
;; (jolt-a1ir): "String" -> "java.lang.String", matching the JVM compiler. An
;; already-canonical name maps to itself; an unknown name yields #f (left as-is).
(define class-hint-table (make-hashtable string-hash string=?))
(for-each (lambda (p) (hashtable-set! class-hint-table (car p) (cdr p))) class-token-alist)
(for-each (lambda (p) (hashtable-set! class-hint-table (cdr p) (cdr p))) class-token-alist)
(define (resolve-class-hint name) (hashtable-ref class-hint-table name #f))
(def-var! "jolt.host" "resolve-class-hint" resolve-class-hint)
;; fully-qualified canonical class names self-evaluate to their own name string,
;; so (= (class 1) java.lang.Long) and (instance? clojure.lang.Atom x) resolve the