Class names evaluate to their canonical class-name STRINGS (the same values
class returns), so a (defmulti m (comp class :body)) matches (defmethod m
String ...) — ring.util.request dispatches exactly this way. Constructor
sugar and the new special form resolve the actual ctor from the registry
when given a token; dispatch-only names (InputStream, File, ISeq, ...) are
interned for defmethod position. nil is a legal multimethod dispatch value
now (sentinel-keyed: janet tables drop nil keys) — ring keys body-string's
no-body case on it.
spork/http is VENDORED (vendor/spork/http.janet, MIT) and baked into the
image, reaching the jolt layer as janet.spork.http/* through the janet.*
bridge — whose lookup is now a chain (runtime fiber env, module env, the
vendored registry), which also fixes janet/* resolution inside net/server
connection fibers (they carry a foreign env). jolt.http is rewritten over
the spork client (its old net/request never existed; also fixes its own
get shadowing clojure.core/get).
Also: slurp accepts opts and DRAINS reader shims (ring middleware slurps
request bodies), clojure.string/replace takes fn replacements with Clojure's
match-or-groups argument, .indexOf int needles are char codes, .getBytes on
the String surface, and ^bytes-style return hints on param vectors parse
(the fn macro unwraps the with-meta form).
Suite steady at 4715/5348; conformance x3 green; deps-conformance medley +
cuerdas green (the stuartsierra/dependency failure predates this change).
The interop surface ring.util.codec needs (registered through the javatime
shim registries): URLEncoder/URLDecoder (www-form-urlencoded in pure janet),
Charset/forName, Base64 encoder/decoder, Integer/valueOf with radix +
parseInt, StringTokenizer, clojure.lang.MapEntry (a 2-tuple), a String ctor
from bytes, .getBytes on the String surface, and a java.lang.Number method
surface (byteValue and friends).
Protocol fixes: extend-protocol on java.util.Map/Set/List now dispatches
(maps — phm/struct/sorted/records — never produced host tags and fell to
Object), lazy seqs gained their ISeq tags, and a nil extension arm works
(group-by-head and extend-type both choked on the nil head). reduce
dispatches to a reified clojure.lang.IReduceInit's own reduce method, which
is how ring-codec tokenizes.
jolt-deps learns :deps/root (tools.deps monorepo subdirectory checkouts —
ring-core lives inside ring-clojure/ring). spork/http, when jpm-installed,
reaches the jolt layer as janet.spork.http/* through the janet.* bridge
(soft: nothing requires it unless used).
The protocol fixes alone let 29 more clojure-test-suite assertions execute:
5319 -> 5348 run, 4706 -> 4715 pass.
The first per-type migration print-method unlocked: uuid, regex, transient,
and channel rendering move from host pr-render branches to io-tier
defmethods (exact same output). The renderer's tagged fallthrough now
dispatches ANY remaining :jolt/* value through the print-method hook before
the raw pairs view — so every tagged type is user-overridable, atoms
included ((defmethod print-method :jolt/atom ...) fires nested), and future
per-type migrations are pure overlay additions.
Hot types (numbers, strings, symbols, collections) stay native, and inst/
namespace/var stay host for now — their formatters (rfc3339, display names)
live there anyway. A transient's :kind is read with jolt.host/ref-get: get
on a transient is the dispatched collection lookup (same trap as sorted
colls).
Before the hook is wired (init-time error messages) tagged values fall
through to the pairs view — bootstrap rendering only.
print-method/print-dup are now multimethods in the io tier with Clojure's
exact dispatch ((:type meta) keyword, else type — core.clj 3693). On jolt the
dispatch value for a record is its quoted full-name symbol, since class names
aren't values here.
Records used to pr-str as the raw janet table; the renderer's record branch
now prints Clojure's #ns.Type{:k v} syntax, and first consults a callback the
api wires up after the overlay loads — so a user defmethod on a record type
fires everywhere: top level, nested in collections, through pr/prn/pr-str.
Builtin overrides (a :number method) fire only on direct print-method calls;
pr keeps the native fast path (documented divergence).
java.io.Writer arrives as a shim beside the StringReader/StringBuilder ones:
a :jolt/writer tagged value with write/append/flush/toString, a StringWriter
ctor, and a sink variant the renderer callback uses.
Two latent host bugs fixed on the way: the interpreted syntax-quote splice
blew up on ~@nil (an interpreted macro's empty & rest binds nil — first tier
user of defmulti found it; d-realize now treats nil as the empty seq), and
(print-method x nil) now throws like the JVM instead of returning nil.
10 spec rows; bench dead even (sandwich run); greeter green on a fresh
binary.
Three canonical-conformance fixes from the post-shrink batch:
- bit-and/bit-or/bit-xor/bit-and-not get Clojure's variadic arities as
20-coll shells folding the binary host ops (now __bit-* seams). 2-arg call
sites still compile to the native janet op via the backend's native-ops
table. The passes.clj constant-fold table now names the seams — the public
fns are overlay and don't exist when the compiler loads (this briefly broke
every compile-mode init).
- core-set? recognizes the :jolt/sorted-set representation (jolt-dpn):
(set? (sorted-set 1)) was false, and ifn? on sorted sets inherited the bug.
- (if) / (if test) / (if test then else extra) throw in both the analyzer
and the interpreter — spec 03-special-forms X1, now marked verified.
Suite 4704 -> 4706; bench and the greeter example benchmark are flat.
Fixed arities now throw Clojure's ArityException shape — 'Wrong number of
args (N) passed to: name' — on any count mismatch; variadic arities on fewer
than their fixed params. The compiled path already enforced fixed arities via
janet's native fn check and multi-arity dispatch; this adds the check to the
interpreter's single-arity closures (the oracle was silently dropping extra
args and giving a raw tuple-index error for missing ones) and guards the
compiled single-variadic wrapper's minimum. Messages carry the fn name when
there is one. 16 spec rows; the update.cljc suite row flipped green (4703 ->
4704).
Enforcement exposed that seq-to-map-for-destructuring had drifted: the spec
row called the 1-arity fn with two args, and the body silently dropped a
trailing unpaired element. Replaced with the canonical Clojure 1.11 version
(even pairs build the map, a single trailing element passes through — so
(f {:b 2}) kwargs calls work — and an unpaired key throws).
Also: transients RFC notes tuple support from the seed-shrink rounds.
Round 6 of the seed shrink (the printer round, scoped by the perf wall). The
five wrappers move to 20-coll over two new host seams: __write (push a string
to *out*) and __pr-str1 (render one value readably). The renderer itself
stays in the seed — it's representation-coupled (pvec/phm/phs/sorted
internals) and shared with the hot str, and rendering through overlay calls
would pay the per-element call cost everywhere big values get printed.
print-method as a real multimethod is follow-up work.
The new spec rows caught a renderer bug: string bodies were never escaped, so
(pr-str "a\"b") didn't round-trip through the reader. pr-render now
escapes quote/backslash/control chars per Clojure.
Round 5 of the seed shrink. transduce is the canonical 5-liner over reduce
(which already honors reduced and steps lazy seqs); eduction composes with
comp and stays eager into a vector (documented divergence, as before);
td-comp — eduction's last caller — is deleted from the seed. transient
accepts tuples now (reader vectors / map entries), so (into [] (first {:a 1}))
keeps working everywhere a vector does.
into was moved, benched, and moved back: the overlay call layers cost the
into-vec suite ~11% back-to-back (536 vs 480ms), the same per-call wall that
sent even?/odd? home in round 4. A transient conj! fast path didn't pay for
itself either (jolt call overhead dominates, not the per-element conj). The
seed keeps core-into + its private transduce machinery; the binding count
still drops by three.
Round 4 of the seed shrink. zero?, pos?, every? move to the syntax tier
(empty? and the analyzer use them — raw def+fn* per the file constraint);
char? joins the tagged-value predicates in 20-coll. coll? stays seed: host
set? doesn't cover sorted sets (filed jolt-dpn) and the tag check from the
overlay would hit the sorted-coll get trap. pos? guards number? explicitly —
the staged recompile emits bare > as the native janet op, which orders
strings (zero? gets the same guard; spec rows lock both plus neg?).
The canonical every? seq-walks its coll, which exposed that rest/next over
sets, phms, struct maps and sorted colls fell into core-rest's indexed
fall-through and walked the wrapper table's INTERNAL fields — (next #{1 2})
was (nil nil), (clojure.set/subset?) broke. core-rest now seqs those
representations (branches placed AFTER the hot vector/lazy paths; the first
ordering cost seq-pipe 4x). Suite rises 4700 -> 4703; baseline 4660 -> 4695.
even?/odd? are back in the seed after the bench A/B: (filter even? ...) pays
an extra call layer per element through the overlay (seq-pipe 262 -> 1100ms).
They join the perf-wall list with the lazy hot fns.
Round 3 of the seed shrink. To the overlay: identity, constantly, neg?,
even?, odd? (20-coll, ahead of their first in-tier uses), not= and unreduced
(00-syntax — the kernel and seq tiers use them), ==, ensure-reduced,
halt-when, parse-boolean, parse-uuid, newline, seque, array-seq, to-array-2d,
and the masking unchecked-byte/short/char/float/double coercions. parse-uuid
validates via re-matches over a new __make-uuid host binding (overlay source
can't write :jolt/type map literals). memfn moves to 30-macros as a working
macro over the .method call sugar instead of a fn that throws.
Behavior fixes toward Clojure, each with spec rows: == now throws on
non-numbers instead of comparing them, and halt-when is the canonical
::halt-map version (the halt value replaces the whole reduction result, no
double completion). list? and map-entry? stay in the seed — both are
representation-coupled (plist/tuple checks).
clojure-test-suite goes 4701 -> 4700: update.cljc expects
(update {:k 1} :k identity 1 2 3 4) to throw an arity error, and jolt fns
don't enforce fixed arity anywhere (pre-existing, language-wide — the seed's
Janet identity threw natively). Filed as jolt-6xn; fixing it should flip
several suite rows at once.
Jolt numbers don't overflow, so +'/-'/*'/inc'/dec' and the whole unchecked-*
family are just the checked ops — now one-line defs in core/20-coll.clj
instead of ~25 seed bindings. int? and num move the same way.
unchecked-divide-int now goes through quot, so dividing by zero throws like
the JVM instead of silently truncating infinity. unchecked-int/long gain
char handling via int, matching Clojure ((unchecked-int \a) => 97). The
masking byte/short/char coercions are not aliases and stay in the seed for
a later round.
Also drops a second duplicate set of unchecked defns that was shadowing the
first at module load.
The seed copies of inst?/inst-ms and the multimethod table ops
(get-method/methods/remove-method/remove-all-methods/prefer-method) are dead
code — the overlay redefines all of them (20-coll.clj, 30-macros.clj) — so
they're deleted along with duplicate bindings-table entries (unreduced,
eduction, unchecked-inc/dec/add/subtract).
New spec rows for methods/remove-all-methods caught two real bugs in the
evaluator's setup fns: methods-setup returned the live host table (count
rejected it, and callers could mutate dispatch state), and
remove-all-methods-setup swapped in a fresh table the dispatch closure never
saw. methods now returns a phm snapshot; remove-all-methods clears in place.
Loading these libs via require worked (load-ns-source interprets, macros
expand lazily) but the same code inlined by uberscript routes through
eval-toplevel and compiled, surfacing four gaps:
- a ^{:map} metadata def name reads as (def (with-meta name m) v); the
analyzer died extracting the name (config.core's defonce env). It now
throws uncompilable so the interpreter, which handles it, takes over.
- declare was a no-op, so a compiled forward reference to a declared
name that collides with a janet root binding bound to the host fn
(selmer.parser's (declare parse) compiled to janet's 1-arg parse).
declare now expands to no-init defs, the interpreter interns them,
and the analyzer routes no-init def to the interpreter.
- class? was missing (selmer.util's exception macro calls it at
expansion time). Always false, like ratio? — no Class objects here.
- require of an unlocatable namespace silently left an empty ns behind,
deferring the failure to an unresolved symbol far from the cause. It
now throws like Clojure's FileNotFoundException. Namespaces entered
in-session count as loaded (Clojure puts them in *loaded-libs*), and
the SCI bootstrap opts out via :lenient-require? since its
clj-targeted requires can't all exist on this host.
yogthos/config now loads and runs end to end: config.edn/.lein-env
deep merge, env vars keywordized and type-converted, PushbackReader
over io/reader, reload-env via alter-var-root. New shims:
java.io.PushbackReader (read/unread), Long/parseLong, BigInteger.,
Boolean/parseBoolean, System/getProperties; clojure.edn/read now
drains an actual reader (it used to read one LINE from a raw janet
file handle, so multi-line config files and shim readers both broke).
Three real bugs shaken out, each with regression specs:
- An empty rest arg bound () instead of nil. ((fn [& r] (if r 1 2)))
returned 1; the truthy () sent config's (or (.exists f) required)
down the wrong branch. Fixed in the interpreter and the compiled-fn
emission. Internal apply boundaries (protocol dispatch, core-apply)
now accept a nil seq like Clojure's (apply f x nil).
- seq/map over a raw janet table (System/getenv, os/environ) yielded
nothing, so config's read-system-env came back empty. Raw host
tables now seq as kv entries like any map, in core-seq,
realize-for-iteration, and coll->cells. The old spec row hid this
behind a vacuous (every? pred empty) — replaced with one that
asserts non-emptiness.
- edn/read single-line limitation, as above.
test/integration/config-lib-test.janet runs the real library from
~/src/config (skips when absent).
Selmer now loads and renders templates on jolt: variables, filters
(upper, date with JVM patterns), if/for tags, nested lookups, HTML
escaping, and render-file with its last-modified template cache.
New src/jolt/javatime.janet provides the java.time surface Selmer's
date filters use (DateTimeFormatter/Instant/ZoneId/LocalDateTime/
FormatStyle/Locale, epoch-ms backed, host-local timezone) plus the
java.io/java.lang/java.net shims its template reader needs
(StringReader, StringBuilder, URL, File/separator, Class/forName).
Everything registers through three new evaluator registries
(class-statics, tagged-methods, class-ctors), so the module is data
plus an install call.
Fixes shaken out along the way, each load-bearing for Selmer and
correct on their own:
- :refer :all silently referred nothing (it iterated the :all keyword)
- ns :import ignored vector specs and didn't share deftype ctor vars
- dot calls on deftype/reify instances never consulted the protocol
registry, so (.render-node node ctx) failed where (render-node ...)
worked
- instance? rejected expression type args like (Class/forName "[C")
- char-array didn't accept a string
- io/resource now searches the loader's source roots (the classpath
analog); io/reader handles char arrays, URLs, readers, and returns
an in-memory reader with :read-line-fn for file paths
- String .split (regex, JVM trailing-empty semantics), file-path
methods (.toURI/.toURL/.getPath/.lastModified/.exists)
- System/getProperty (os.name & co), the janet/* bridge now works
inside env-less fibers, and qualified class names that syntax-quote
mangles (selmer.util/StringBuilder) fall back to the ctor registry
Spec rows cover the shim surface; test/integration/selmer-test.janet
runs the real Selmer from ~/src/selmer (skips cleanly when absent).
\p{L}/\p{Lu}/\p{Ll}/\p{N}/\p{Z}/\p{Ps}/\p{Pe} (+\P negation) land in
both escape positions of the regex compiler, mapped onto the byte PEGs:
ASCII exact, any high byte (inside a UTF-8 sequence) counts as a LETTER —
so ^\p{L}+$ accepts UTF-8 words while \p{N}/\p{Z} stay ASCII. (?u) was
already a tolerated no-op flag. Unknown property names error at compile.
Chasing the acceptance target (cuerdas via deps-conformance) pulled in the
rest of its clj-compat chain, each a real gap:
- the deps-conformance harness reads libraries under clj-compat reader
features (deps are clj/cljc by definition — without :clj, cuerdas's
#?(:clj (instance? Pattern x)) branches resolved to NIL bodies)
- instance? knows Pattern/java.util.regex.Pattern (regex values) and
Character (cuerdas's rx/regexp? gate on split)
- the java.lang.String method surface: .toLowerCase/.toUpperCase/.trim/
.indexOf(-1 on miss)/.lastIndexOf/.substring/.charAt/.startsWith/
.endsWith/.contains/.replace/.equalsIgnoreCase/... — ASCII case mapping,
unknown methods error (the old path silently returned nil)
- the (.method obj args) SUGAR now desugars to (. obj method args) in the
interpreter — it was never implemented (bare .method heads resolved as
vars, hence 'Cannot call nil')
- Long/MAX_VALUE / MIN_VALUE statics (f64 approximations)
deps-conformance: medley ok, cuerdas ok (was check-error); dependency now
loads its clj branches and fails only on its single-segment ns resolution.
30 new spec rows (11 regex, 19 interop). Gate exit 0.
ifn? (jolt-1vx) is the canonical IFn set in the overlay: fns, keywords,
symbols, maps (sorted included), sets, vectors, and vars — NOT lists. The
seed version said true for lists and false for struct maps and vars.
Mutable-mode caveat documented (vectors and lists share the array repr
there). 13 predicate rows.
Multimethod dispatch (jolt-heo) now collects EVERY isa-matching method key
and picks the dominant one — x dominates y when prefer-method'd over it or
(isa? x y) — and two matches with no dominant is an ambiguity ERROR, as in
Clojure. It used to take whichever key the table yielded first, silently
ignoring prefer-method. The prefers store upgrades to Clojure's
{x -> set-of-dominated} shape, shared between the dispatch closure and
prefer-method-setup via the var; prefers becomes a macro over a setup fn
(the store lives on the VAR — the multifn value can't carry it, so the old
fn read {} forever). 6 multimethod rows + the conformance row updated to
the canonical shape (335x3).
The reader (jolt-ou8) kept the pending KEY when a comment or #_ sits in a
map's VALUE slot: the old code dropped both, desyncing kv pairing — the
real value became the next key and the closing brace landed in value
position ('Unmatched closing brace'). Selmer's deps.edn (a '; for
development (REPL, etc)' comment between key and value) now parses; 6
reader rows incl. nested commented maps.
Gate: jpm exit 0, conformance 335x3, all tests passed.
Every walk over a lazy seq created FRESH wrapper tables around the shared
rest-thunks (ls-rest, ls-seq/ls-count, realize-for-iteration, the printers,
reduce — each had its own make-lazy-seq loop), so independent walks re-ran
the thunks: side effects duplicated, and a doall'd seq of futures was
re-spawned serially by the deref walk. Every walker now goes through
ls-rest-cached, which memoizes the rest wrapper on its node — thunks run
exactly once, as in Clojure. Costs ~10% on walk-heavy benches (the per-node
cache get/put — Clojure's LazySeq pays the same); net still -9% vs the
pre-linear-walks baseline. Three regression rows pin once-only effects and
value stability across walks.
On top of that: pmap/pcalls/pvalues (jolt-oeu) over the real-thread futures
— spawn-all-then-deref (the once-only fix is what makes the doall actually
mean that), snapshot semantics documented, multi-coll arity via the
canonical vector-zip. System/currentTimeMillis + nanoTime land as System
statics (the realtime clock — os/time is whole seconds, which quantized
every elapsed measurement to 1000ms). Seven pmap rows incl. a generous-
margin parallelism check (4 x 200ms sleeps under 700ms after warmup).
Reviewing flatiron's morsel batching for applicability turned up something
better hiding under the lazy machinery: every cell over a concrete
collection was produced by slicing the REMAINDER ((tuple/slice c 1) per
element in coll->cells, and rest/next sliced the same way), so any full walk
was O(n^2). mapv over 40k elements took 10.4 SECONDS; a 20k-element
first/rest loop took two.
Cells over indexed collections now walk by INDEX (one shared indexed-cells
helper, O(1) per step), and rest/next of a vector/tuple/list return an O(1)
lazy view from index 1 — which also makes (rest [1 2 3]) a SEQ, as in
Clojure (it was a vector-typed slice; seq?/vector? rows pin the change).
mapv 40k: 10405 -> 182 ms. rest-loop 20k: 2040 -> 31 ms. Whole bench:
seq-pipe -28%, into-vec -24%, str-join -18%, hof -26%, TOTAL 4565 -> 3753
(-18% vs main, back to back). Chunked seqs (jolt-yqc) drop in priority:
the quadratic walks were the actual cost; chunking now only amortizes
per-element closure allocation.
Nine regression rows incl. 20k/50k linear-scaling smoke tests. Gate exit 0.
require-:as wrote the string-keyed :imports table (which resolution reads)
while ns-aliases read the symbol-keyed :aliases table (which nothing wrote)
— so (ns-aliases) was always empty and the alias fn had to write both as a
bridge. :aliases (alias-name string -> ns-name string) is THE store now:
require :as and the alias fn write it, both resolution paths read it first
(falling back to :imports for class imports, which is all that table holds
now), ns-unalias removes one entry, and ns-aliases presents Clojure's
{alias-symbol -> namespace object} shape built from it. ns-resolve's
qualified path goes through the same lookup.
Also: the coverage dashboard's last 'resolvable-not-interned' entry was '.'
— which (resolve '.) returns nil for on the JVM too; the tool now classifies
it as the special form it is, and that category reads ZERO.
7 new unified-alias spec rows (require/alias/ns-unalias round-trips through
both the resolution and introspection views); the white-box namespace test
tracks the accessor rename. Gate exit 0.
(recur (inc acc) (rest xs)) re-entered the fn through its varargs collector,
so the rest seq came back wrapped in a fresh 1-element rest list — xs never
emptied and the interpreter hung (jolt-4df; the compile path was already
correct). recur now re-enters through a dedicated entry that binds the LAST
arg directly as the rest param (n-fixed + 1 args, Clojure's contract), in
both the single-arity and multi-arity fn* paths; the shared body runner keeps
the ns-swap/restore in one place, and fixed arities still re-dispatch through
the arity dispatcher exactly as before.
Six spec rows: the original repro, zero-fixed variadic, rest-empties-to-nil,
multi-arity variadic recur, nil rest, and a fixed-arity control.
clojure.edn was nearly complete (sets, #uuid/#inst, :eof all landed earlier);
the :readers opt was ignored and :default missing. Both work now — the
reader stores a tag as a :#name keyword, so the lookup normalizes it to the
symbol Clojure keys :readers with; :default gets (tag value); built-in data
readers stay the fallback. 8 new edn spec rows. This was the last open item
of jolt-0mb (the vendored walk/zip/data/edn battery has been green for a
while: 34/33/61/50, all clean).
Chasing the probe cascade ('Unable to resolve symbol: edn/...' after one
error) found a real evaluator bug: an interpreted fn body runs with
current-ns rebound to its DEFINING ns and restores it with a plain trailing
call — an UNCAUGHT throw skips every restore on the way out, leaving the ctx
stuck in the deepest callee's ns, where alias-qualified lookups then fail
(the same cascade previously seen via sci). The repair lives at the
TOP-LEVEL boundary (loader/eval-toplevel saves the entry ns and restores it
on error before re-raising) — NOT per-call defer/try, which builds a fiber
per frame and blew the C stack on deep interpreted recursion (file-seq)
when tried first. Regression tests cover the cross-eval leak and that
aliases keep resolving.
test/spec/untested-vars-spec.janet adds 143 rows asserting jolt's documented
behavior for the whole implemented-untested category — primed arithmetic,
the array/aset/coercion stubs, unchecked-*, the chunk family, JVM-shape
stubs (class/bean/proxy/memfn as resolve-only or :throws), ns/REPL
machinery, and the misc seqs. tools/spec_coverage.py now checks each var as
a whole TOKEN in the test sources (call-position-only matching missed *1,
+', ., .., /, and bare transducer refs like cat).
Writing rows from probed truth surfaced five real bugs, all fixed:
- comp with a jolt-IFn stage silently returned nil ((comp seq :content)) —
raw Janet keyword application is not jolt invoke. comp is the canonical
overlay defn now (fixed-arity composed fn, so the hot 1-arg path is two
direct calls); the seed keeps a private td-comp only for the transducer
machinery. hof bench +9% vs native, the price of correct IFn dispatch.
- extend (the fn) was a nil-expanding stub MACRO shadowing any definition;
it's a real fn over register-method now, and extends? (a constant-false
stub) is real over extenders
- (.. x f g) hit the 'ClassName.' constructor branch (a name ending in a
dot) and died; .. is the canonical threading macro now
- aclone errored on pvecs; ns-interns/ns-imports returned live host tables
that count/seq reject (now structs)
Thread/sleep + Thread/yield land as Thread statics beside Math/: sleep parks
the WORKER's own event loop (each future thread has one), which makes timed
deref provably fire — futures-spec gains the timeout-fires, sleep-in-body,
and timed-out-future-still-completes rows. The futures impl itself already
ran on real OS threads (ev/spawn-thread + marshalled results); jolt-ejx was
stale.
Dashboard: implemented+tested 433 -> 564 of 694; implemented-untested and
missing-portable are both EMPTY. Gate: jpm exit 0, all tests passed.
The dashboard's missing-portable category is now EMPTY (was 35 when the issue
was filed; this session's io/leaf work had already landed most of them).
The final seven:
- extenders — ctx-capturing clojure.core fn over the protocol type-registry:
the type-tags implementing a protocol, as symbols; nil when none
- find-keyword — keyword: jolt keywords have no intern table, so it always
finds (babashka makes the same call)
- inst-ms* — the raw Inst method; one inst representation, so = inst-ms
- read+string — over the 50-io readers, which now expose :buf and :fill-fn;
returns [form exact-text-consumed], EOF throws or yields [eof-value ""]
with the 3-arity, works for string AND stdin readers
- with-local-vars — fresh free-standing var cells (__local-var seam) bound as
locals; var-get/var-set work on any cell
- with-open — canonical recursive expansion closing through the __close seam:
a map-like value's :close fn or a host file (no .close interop here);
nested closes run inner-first, finally runs on throw
- with-precision — body evaluates with precision/:rounding accepted and
ignored (doubles, no BigDecimal context) — documented divergence
30 new spec rows (test/spec/missing-vars-spec.janet); coverage.md
regenerated: implemented+tested 426 -> 433, missing-portable 7 -> 0.
Gate: jpm exit 0, all tests passed.
sort-by, rand-int, shuffle, random-uuid, char-escape-string, and
char-name-string move to 20-coll over the two host seams that stay (rand and
sort — they ARE the randomness/ordering primitives). Canonical upgrades ride
along: sort-by defaults its comparator to compare, so nil sorts FIRST (the
kernel fn used host ordering and put nil last); rand-int truncates toward
zero via int (the kernel fn floored, wrong for negative n); shuffle is a
pure-functional Fisher-Yates over vector assoc and rejects non-collections
(a string is seqable but not shuffleable, as on the JVM — the honest gate
caught that one); random-uuid builds over rand-int and validates through
parse-uuid; the char tables are char-keyed Clojure maps (Clojure's shape —
the seed keeps its private code-keyed copies for pr-render).
22 new spec rows. Gate: jpm test exit 0 verified, suite 4698 >= 4660, bench
parity with main back-to-back (4733 vs 4817).
recompile-defns! is the defn analog of recompile-macros!: pre/at-kernel
overlay defns (00-syntax's destructure and friends; the kernel tier too in
interpret mode) load as interpreted closures, the evaluator stashes their fn
source on the var (:defn-src, scoped by a flag only api/load-core-overlay!
sets), and the end-of-init pass compiles them and swaps the var root. With
that in place, keys/vals/empty? — the fns the 00-syntax expanders call at
expansion time — move to the top of 00-syntax as raw fn* defs (canonical:
keys/vals project (seq m), so sorted maps come back in comparator order and
(keys {}) is nil; empty? keeps O(1) count dispatch with seq's cell check only
for the lazy/list fallback). The sorted tier drops its now-dead :keys/:vals
ops.
Correctness fixes that surfaced once the gate was run with a REAL exit code
(the previous 'jpm test | grep' gates reported grep's exit and masked spec
failures across #48-#50):
- map conj is strict again: a non-nil/non-map arg must be a 2-element vector
('Vector arg to map conj must be a pair'), and merge inherits it — the
batch-2 canonical merge had silently dropped the validation
- conj onto a lazy seq prepends (it fell into the MAP fallback); upstream
clojure.data/diff relies on (conj seq x) via set/union over keys, so diff
now matches Clojure exactly
- (seq {}) / (seq #{}) / empty phm are nil, not ()
- key/val are strict (a plain vector is not an entry); find mints a REAL
entry as the first entry of a one-entry map, nil values intact
- the sci avoid-method-too-large stub passes its registry map through
instead of returning a raw host table (strict conj rejected it; sci's
clojure-core registry is also no longer discarded)
Test updates: lazy-infinite pins take-nth realization at 5 (was 7 — the
canonical lazy impl realizes fewer); self-host asserts the analyzer IS loaded
in interpret mode (compiled expanders, PR #50) and is NOT in the
:compile-macros? false oracle. 18 new maps-spec rows.
Gate: jpm test exit 0 (verified directly, not through a pipe), conformance
326x3, suite 4698 >= 4660.
empty, assoc-in, and update-in move to 20-coll.clj as the canonical recursive
ports; interpose and take-nth move to the lazy tier WITH their canonical
transducer arities (volatile-based), so the seed's td-interpose/td-take-nth
helpers go too. (empty lazy-seq) is () now — the kernel fn returned a bare
host table for it.
keys/vals/empty? stay put for now: they're expander-coupled — 00-syntax's
when/and/or/cond/destructure expanders call them at expansion time, which
happens during the kernel-tier compile, before any later tier exists. They
move when early defns get the staged-recompile treatment macros already have.
26 new spec rows (incl. transducer arities through sequence/into and laziness
checks against (range)). Gate green: conformance 326x3, suite >= baseline,
full jpm test.
key/val/select-keys/zipmap/merge/merge-with/get-in/memoize/partial/
trampoline/some?/true?/false?/max/min/reverse move to 20-coll.clj as the
canonical Clojure definitions, plus find — which was previously missing from
jolt entirely (select-keys/merge-with/memoize build on it). Two behavior
fixes ride along: memoize now caches nil results (the kernel fn re-computed
them — canonical find-based impl), and conj of nil onto a map is a no-op as
in Clojure (it errored; the canonical merge relies on it). max/min keep the
JVM NaN behavior by construction (pairwise >/<). not= stays: the kernel tier
(subvec) uses it.
One new tier-ordering rule, learned the hard way: a tier may only use macros
from tiers that load BEFORE it — memoize's if-let (30-macros) broke compiled
init while interpret mode passed, because compile expands macros at tier
load and the interpreter expands lazily. Now documented in the migration
workflow note.
MIGRATION.md is gone — task tracking lives in beads (jolt-ded; the per-batch
workflow, tier-order rules, perf wall, and remaining candidates are in bd
memory core-migration-workflow). The doc's candidate lists had gone stale
against the actual seed anyway.
43 new spec rows. Gate green: conformance 326x3, suite >= baseline, full
jpm test, bench at parity with main back-to-back (4851 vs 4831 TOTAL).
Nine more seed leaves move to 20-coll.clj (verified leaf-by-leaf: defn +
core-bindings entry only, no internal callers). fnil is upgraded to Clojure's
canonical 2/3/4-arity — it patches only the first 1-3 arguments; the old
kernel fn patched every position it had a default for, which Clojure does
not. The rest carry their kernel semantics over unchanged (bigdec is a
double, numerator/denominator throw, supers is #{}, munge rewrites dashes).
16 new spec rows incl. the fnil arity-contract cases. Gate green:
conformance 326x3, suite 4577, full jpm test (2:18 — first full run with the
ctx image cache on main).
*in*, read-line, read, with-in-str, and line-seq land as a new overlay IO
tier (core/50-io.clj). *in* is a dynamic var holding a reader — a plain map
of two closures, :read-line-fn (next line, nil at EOF) and :read-fn (next
form, advancing past exactly that form). The default *in* reads real stdin
with a shared leftover buffer, so read and read-line interleave correctly;
with-in-str rebinds *in* to a string reader over one atom-held buffer —
(read) consumes its form, a following (read-line) returns the rest of that
line, as in Clojure. read has the 0/1/3 arities (EOF throws, or returns
eof-value when eof-error? is false).
The Janet seed grows two seams next to read-string: __stdin-read-line (one
line off stdin, newline stripped) and __parse-next (one form off a string ->
[form rest], nil at end of input) — and loses the line-seq stub.
Two traps hit and documented for future tiers: a map LITERAL with :jolt/type
as a key is read as a tagged form (don't tag overlay value maps), and a
leftover seed stub holding the same name breaks direct-linked self-recursion
— the overlay line-seq's recursive call bound to the stub's root, truncating
after one line. The stub's string-splitting behavior is kept as a documented
extension.
20 new io-spec rows (read-line EOF/interleave, read arities + eval round-trip,
line-seq incl. real-stdin paths). Gate green: conformance 326x3, suite 4577,
full jpm test.
sorted-map/sorted-map-by/sorted-set/sorted-set-by/sorted?/sorted-map?/
sorted-set?/subseq/rsubseq now live in their own overlay tier (25-sorted.clj).
A sorted coll is a tagged host table with a comparator-ordered :entries
vector, a 3-way :cmp, and the tier's op implementations ATTACHED to the value
(:ops map): the seed's conj/assoc/get/seq/count/... branches are each a
one-line call through (coll :ops), so the ops travel with the value — correct
across contexts, forks, and AOT images, no module-level hooks to re-wire.
The host surface grows by three minimal value primitives: jolt.host/
tagged-table, ref-put! (already there), and ref-get — a raw field read,
because plain get on a sorted coll IS the comparator lookup and reading
:entries with it recurses.
This fixes a pile of Clojure-correctness gaps the Janet kernel had:
- lookup/membership now go through the COMPARATOR: (contains? (sorted-set 1)
1.0) was a deep= scan, (conj (sorted-set 1) 1.0) and assoc of a
comparator-equal key now no-op/replace as in Clojure
- equality is representation-agnostic: (= (sorted-map :a 1) {:a 1}) and
(= (sorted-set 1 2) #{1 2}) were false
- iteration was broken: (map inc (sorted-set 3 1 2)) errored
(realize-for-iteration and coll->cells had no sorted branches)
- empty?/empty saw the host wrapper, not the collection: (empty? (sorted-map))
was false, (empty sc) returned a bare table; it now keeps the comparator
- sorted colls canonicalize as map keys; comparator fns may be boolean
predicates or 3-way (Clojure's fn->comparator)
- sorted-map throws on odd kv count; conj nil is a no-op
Also fixes jolt-h86 en passant: into-conj had no branch for sets (or sorted
colls) and silently returned the target unchanged — (into #{} [:a :b]) was
#{}. The fallback now folds conj. Regression rows in sets-spec.
sorted-spec grows to 77 rows (comparator-based membership, equality,
empty/rseq/printing, seq-fn interop, subseq/rsubseq on maps). Gate green:
conformance 326x3, suite 4577 (vs 4566 prior — the battery gained rows),
sorted+sets specs, full jpm test, bench at parity with main back-to-back
(4521ms vs 4619ms TOTAL under identical load).
make-hierarchy/derive/underive/isa?/parents/ancestors/descendants are now
Clojure in the overlay — Clojure's own pure-map implementation: a hierarchy
is {:parents {tag #{..}} :ancestors {..} :descendants {..}}, the 3-arity
forms are PURE (derive returns a new hierarchy), and the 1/2-arity forms swap
a private global-hierarchy atom.
This fixes three correctness gaps the Janet kernel had: multi-parent derive
(the kernel's :parents held a single parent per tag), TRANSITIVE descendants
(the kernel tracked direct children only), and vector-pair isa?
((isa? [child1 child2] [parent1 parent2])). Cyclic and duplicate derives now
behave like Clojure (throw / no-op).
Multimethod dispatch was the kernel's only internal caller: defmulti-setup's
dispatch closure now calls the overlay's isa? through a lazily-resolved var
(cached per multimethod); a :hierarchy option is an atom (deref per dispatch,
matching Clojure's var semantics) or a plain hierarchy map. The Janet kernel
(types.janet) and the core-* wrappers are deleted.
20 new hierarchy spec rows (pure 3-arity incl. cycle/duplicate edges, global
+ dispatch incl. custom :hierarchy atoms). Gate green: conformance 326x3,
suite 4566 >= 4540, all batteries, bench in the session band.
*ns* is interned in clojure.core holding the current NAMESPACE OBJECT, kept
in sync by ctx-set-current-ns through a var table cached on the env (one
table put on the hot path; core-bench A/B neutral). A thread binding
(binding [*ns* ...]) shadows the root through var-get as usual. in-ns now
returns the namespace object (Clojure); str renders a namespace as its name
and pr-str as #namespace[name]. The ns-designator helper accepts namespace
objects (they are tagged STRUCTS — the old table?-based check never matched
them), so (ns-aliases *ns*) / (ns-unalias *ns* 'a) work — SCI and the jank
syntax-quote corpus use exactly that shape.
Known divergence (documented): inside an interpreted fn, *ns* reflects the
fn's defining ns (jolt's resolution model rebinds current-ns per call);
top-level and load-time reads match Clojure.
Gate green (conformance 326x3, suite 4572 >= 4540, all batteries,
specs+unit +8 *ns* rows); bench neutral.
The names turn 2a's leak removal exposed as honestly missing, now proper:
- slurp/spit/flush (host-classified): path-based IO over Janet files; spit
takes :append; flush flushes *out*. printf prints formatted (no newline)
over the existing format. file-seq walks paths via two host dir primitives
through the overlay's tree-seq.
- ns-map / ns-unmap / ns-refers (ctx fns). ns-refers required fixing the
refer MODEL: refer/use/:refer now map the SOURCE VAR into the target ns
(the Clojure model) instead of copying its value into a new var — so
source-ns redefinitions propagate, the :macro flag travels for free, and
refers are identifiable by the var's home :ns.
- Thread-binding family: with-bindings*/with-bindings, bound-fn*/bound-fn,
bound?, thread-bound?, get-thread-bindings. The captured binding map is a
Janet struct keyed by the var tables — the exact frame representation
var-get reads — so it re-pushes correctly (a phm frame is invisible to
var lookup).
- load-string and eval interned as VALUES at the api layer (they need the
loader's compile-or-interpret routing); the eval special form still
handles direct calls.
Suite 4532 -> 4572 (baseline floor 4540 across timeout variance, clean 86),
conformance 326x3, stdlib battery, all specs+unit (+21 turn-2b rows).
Coverage: missing-portable 27 -> 10 (left: the *in*-model readers, the
with-local-vars/with-precision/extenders tail).
resolve-sym's last resort silently resolved any unknown Clojure symbol
against Janet's root environment — leaking Janet builtins with JANET
semantics into Clojure code: (type 1) was Janet's :number, (gensym) returned
Janet symbols (the long-documented (symbol (str (gensym))) macro landmine
existed BECAUSE of this), compare/slurp/int?/any? likewise. The explicit
janet/ prefix is the deliberate interop channel; the implicit fallback is
gone — an unresolved symbol is an error.
What the leak was masking, now proper interned vars:
- gensym: jolt's own (already existed, never interned) — returns real jolt
symbols; the macro landmine is dead
- compare: full Clojure total order (nil-first, numbers, strings, keywords,
symbols by ns/name, booleans, chars, uuid/inst, vectors by length then
elementwise; cross-type throws)
- type: :type metadata override, deftype/record tag as symbol, else a
taxonomy keyword (host-classified)
- int?: core-integer? — which had a latent bug the leak hid: (integer?
##Inf) was true (floor of inf is inf); NaN/infinities now excluded
- any?: constantly true (Clojure 1.9; SCI's namespaces.cljc needs it)
- jolt.interop/janet-type now uses the explicit (janet/type x) channel
- evaluator-test uses init (a bare make-ctx resolved EVERYTHING via the leak)
Suite 4470 -> 4532+ pass / 86-87 clean (proper compare unlocks the sort
files); baselines raised. Conformance 326x3 (+5 rows), +22 predicate spec
rows, stdlib battery green, all specs+unit. Coverage dashboard now counts
previously-leak-resolvable names honestly (missing-portable 19 -> 27).
#inst (jolt-rnh): an instant is an immutable tagged struct
{:jolt/type :jolt/inst :ms <epoch-millis>} — equality and map-key hashing by
INSTANT, so different offsets denoting the same moment are =. The reader
parses RFC3339 with Clojure's partial-timestamp defaults (#inst "2020" is
2020-01-01T00:00:00.000Z) and errors on malformed input; inst?/inst-ms in
the overlay; pr-str prints the canonical
#inst "yyyy-MM-ddThh:mm:ss.fff-00:00" and round-trips; str gives the bare
RFC3339 string. Self-evaluating in the evaluator (like uuid/chars).
Syntax-quote (jolt-l2a): a syntax-quoted self-evaluating literal (string,
number, boolean, nil, keyword, char) collapses to the literal at READ time,
matching Clojure's reader — so nested/adjacent backticks over literals are
inert: (= "meow" ```"meow") is true (jank pass-adjacent). Symbols still
qualify and collections still template. General nested syntax-quote over
non-literals remains UNVERIFIED in spec S25.
Tests: inst-spec (18 cases incl. partial defaults, offsets, round-trip),
+10 literal-collapse reader rows, +5 conformance rows (321x3). Spec
02-reader S20/S25 updated to normative. Suite stable 4470/86.
jolt no longer satisfies :clj in reader conditionals. The shortcut was a
measured net liability: :clj branches carry JVM interop and JVM-specific
test expectations jolt fails, and they shadowed :default branches jolt
passes. A/B over the suite: clj,default = 4967 assertions / 4324 pass / 119
errors; jolt,default = 5069 / 4470 / 81 (+146 pass, -38 errors, +8 clean
files). Baselines raised to 4470/86.
Matching is now by CLAUSE order like Clojure — the first clause whose key is
in the feature set wins (#?(:default 5 :clj 6) is 5 everywhere); the old code
scanned for :clj first, then :default, regardless of position.
Foreign clj-targeted libraries are a property of the LOADING CONTEXT, not the
platform: reader-features-set! opts a load into a compatibility set, and the
SCI bootstrap/runtime tests load SCI under ["jolt" "clj" "default"] (its
.cljc selects implementations via :clj with no :jolt branches).
JOLT_FEATURES remains the process-wide override.
RFC 0002 records the decision with the measured data; spec 02-reader S18 is
now normative (clause order, documented feature set, per-context override).
Reader tests updated to the portable set + an opt-in round-trip.
The lexical-syntax chapter, granularity modeled on jank's 62-file
per-construct reader corpus: token grammar (whitespace/comments, collections
with read-time duplicate checks, numbers incl. the N/M tower question,
symbols/keywords incl. ::auto-resolution, strings/chars), the quote-family
sugars, the full #-dispatch catalog with normative entries (anonymous fn
%-derivation, discard composition, reader conditionals, symbolic floats,
tagged literals), and the syntax-quote contract (core/alias/current-ns
qualification, template-stable gensyms, ~' idiom, distribution through
collections).
Adapting the corpus surfaced and filed three findings, recorded as labeled
divergences/UNVERIFIED in the chapter: nested syntax-quote doesn't collapse
(S25, (= "meow" ```"meow") is false), #inst reads as a bare string (identity
data reader, no instant type), and jolt satisfies :clj in reader
conditionals (feature-key policy under review).
reader-forms-spec gains 11 chapter-cited rows (discard stacking, ##Inf/
##-Inf/##NaN, :default conditionals, qualified var-quote identity, gensym
stability within vs across templates) — all passing.
Fifteen vars from the spec coverage gap (docs/spec/coverage.md):
parse-long/parse-double/parse-boolean (strict validation; scan-number alone
accepts 0x10), newline, current-time-ms (host clock for time), update-keys/
update-vals (PHM base, collisions last-wins), partitionv/partitionv-all/
splitv-at (lazy seqs of vectors; splitv-at's tail stays a seq, matching the
reference), with-redefs/with-redefs-fn (roots restored on throw), time,
macroexpand (expand-1 to fixpoint), alias/ns-unalias (write BOTH alias stores
— require :as uses string-keyed :imports while ns-aliases reads :aliases;
split filed), ns-publics (symbol-keyed map; publics == interns, no privacy).
Three pre-existing bugs fixed along the way:
- (partition n step pad coll) misparsed pad as the coll and returned ()
- (require 'bare.symbol) rejected — only vector specs were accepted
- analyze-form leaked the interpreted analyzer's ns on a punt: a throw out of
the analyzer left current-ns=jolt.analyzer and :compile-ns set, so the
fallback interpretation resolved user vars against the wrong namespace
(bit (var user-sym) under compile mode)
And one overlay-authoring landmine documented in-code: a 20-coll fn must not
use 30-macros macros (with-redefs-fn's dotimes compiled as a forward ref that
resolved to the macro fn at runtime) — loop/recur instead.
Gate: conformance 316x3 (+14 rows), suite 4324 pass / 78 clean (was 4081/72;
parse_*/update_* files now contribute), baselines raised, all specs+unit,
fixpoint, self-host, sci, staged. Coverage: missing-portable 35 -> 20.
map? treated ANY struct as a map, so (map? 'sym), (map? \a), and
(map? (random-uuid)) were all true; coll? had the same wart. Meanwhile both
were FALSE for sorted maps (and coll? for sorted sets and records), which are
collections in Clojure. Now: a map is a plain struct literal, a phm, a sorted
map, or a record; coll? additionally includes sorted sets. Tagged structs
(anything with :jolt/type) are values.
The loose-map? dependents (destructure's clause ordering, defn's attr-map
guard) already guarded with symbol? first, so nothing relied on the wart —
full gate green, and the suite gained: 4074 -> 4081 pass / 72 clean files
(map_qmark/coll_qmark assertions now correct); baselines raised. 22 new
strictness spec cases.
uuid support was broken end to end (jolt-6s2): random-uuid built malformed
strings ((string/format "%x") with no zero-padding, so hex groups came out
short, and no variant bits), uuid? was hardcoded false, the #uuid data reader
was identity (bare string), and parse-uuid didn't exist. Nothing tested it.
A UUID is now an immutable tagged struct {:jolt/type :jolt/uuid :str <lower>}
(make-uuid, types.janet) — struct value equality gives case-insensitive = and
map-key/set hashing for free, and the evaluator treats it as self-evaluating
(like chars). random-uuid emits a correct RFC 4122 v4 (zero-padded 8-4-4-4-12,
version nibble 4, variant 8-b). parse-uuid validates the canonical shape,
returns nil on a bad string, throws on a non-string (Clojure 1.11). uuid? is
an overlay tag predicate. str renders the bare string; pr-str renders
#uuid "..." and round-trips.
Tests: uuid-spec (30 cases: format, parse edge cases from the suite, value
semantics, reader literal), 6 conformance cases x3 modes. The suite's
parse_uuid/random_uuid/uuid_qmark files now contribute: 4049 -> 4074 pass,
71 clean files; baselines raised.
* core: fix jolt-265 — syntax-quote fully-qualifies core syms to clojure.core/
Re-attempt of the deferred gap, now unblocked. The earlier uberscript break
wasn't qualification itself but an aliased-ref resolution bug it exposed:
resolve-var looked up ns-aliases (e.g. g/foo) against the analyzer's REBOUND
ctx-current-ns (jolt.analyzer, since the analyzer runs interpreted in its own
ns) instead of the namespace being compiled. A user's aliased refs failed
mid-compile (g/hello -> nil in the bundled standalone).
- resolve-var resolves aliases against :compile-ns when set (same ns
h-current-ns uses), falling back to ctx-current-ns — correct for both modes.
- sq-symbol qualifies a resolved clojure.core name to clojure.core/<name>
(Clojure hygiene); special forms stay bare; unresolved syms -> current ns.
Tests updated to the qualified behavior (features-test, reader-forms-spec).
* test: comprehensive spec — regex + sorted colls + random/predicate gaps
Filling the biggest untested clojure.core areas found in a coverage audit
(168 of 506 provided fns had no spec). New + expanded suites:
- regex-spec.janet (20): #"…" literals, regex?, re-find/re-matches/re-seq
(match/no-match/groups), re-pattern, and clojure.string split/replace with
regex (incl $1 backrefs). Whole area was previously unspecced.
- sorted-spec.janet (14): sorted-map/sorted-set construction + ordering, sorted?,
subseq/rsubseq. Pins the working subset — get/conj/assoc/keys/vals on sorted
colls and the by-comparator ctors are not yet first-class (jolt-ti9).
- predicates-spec +14: seqable?, integer?, reduced?/unreduced, not-empty.
- numbers-spec +5: rand/rand-int/rand-nth invariants.
Fix: sorted? was bound to core-sorted-map? so it returned false for sorted-sets;
now true for both sorted maps and sets (core-sorted?).
Filed: jolt-ti9 (sorted collections incomplete: get/conj/assoc/keys/vals don't
operate on the sorted wrapper; sorted-*-by ignore the comparator).
Gate green incl full jpm build + jpm test.
* core: close surfaced gaps — first-class sorted colls, with-out-str, rand arity, deref reduced
jolt-ti9: sorted-map/sorted-set are now first-class across the collection fns —
get/assoc/dissoc/conj/contains?/keys/vals/disj and call-as-fn all operate on the
wrapper and preserve sort order. The by-comparator constructors (sorted-map-by/
sorted-set-by) now thread the user comparator (numeric or boolean-predicate) through
all derived colls. Sorted predicates/ctors/ops moved above core-conj so the
collection fns can branch on them; jolt-invoke (interpreter) gets inline branches.
jolt-rfw: add with-out-str (binds output to a string buffer) + the macro.
jolt-ek3: (rand n) arity and deref-of-reduced (uuid? still deferred).
Specs: new io-spec.janet; sorted-spec expanded to pin the now-working map/set ops
and by-comparator ordering; predicate/number spec restorations.
* remove old doc
* core: fix stale comment — by-comparator sorted ctors are implemented
---------
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
Re-attempt of the deferred gap, now unblocked. The earlier uberscript break
wasn't qualification itself but an aliased-ref resolution bug it exposed:
resolve-var looked up ns-aliases (e.g. g/foo) against the analyzer's REBOUND
ctx-current-ns (jolt.analyzer, since the analyzer runs interpreted in its own
ns) instead of the namespace being compiled. A user's aliased refs failed
mid-compile (g/hello -> nil in the bundled standalone).
- resolve-var resolves aliases against :compile-ns when set (same ns
h-current-ns uses), falling back to ctx-current-ns — correct for both modes.
- sq-symbol qualifies a resolved clojure.core name to clojure.core/<name>
(Clojure hygiene); special forms stay bare; unresolved syms -> current ns.
Tests updated to the qualified behavior (features-test, reader-forms-spec).
Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
* test: adapt jank's form/reader tests into spec suites; fix case no-match
Vendoring jank's behavior (not the project): we base our own copies on the
jank test corpus to close coverage gaps, but maintain them ourselves since
jank may diverge. Two new spec batteries (jank-isms translated to Jolt:
letfn* -> letfn, jank catch types -> :default; platform-specific bigdec/
biginteger/ratio/uuid/##Inf/unicode cases omitted):
- test/spec/forms-spec.janet (52): case, fn (arity/variadic/closure/recur/
named), let, letfn, loop, try, if/do/def/call — incl :throws regression
cases (no-match, bad params, nil call).
- test/spec/reader-forms-spec.janet (22): #() (% %N %&), #' var-quote,
^metadata, syntax-quote (gensym/unquote/splice).
Fix surfaced by adaptation: case with no matching clause and no default now
throws 'No matching clause' (Clojure semantics) instead of returning nil
(00-syntax). Gate green incl full jpm build+test.
Other gaps the adaptation surfaced are filed (tests adjusted to jolt's
current behavior + a comment, not silently dropped):
jolt-vdo case duplicate test constants not rejected
jolt-w2v loop bindings not sequential (later init can't see earlier)
jolt-6x1 #() %& miscomputes arity with a higher positional (%2 …)
jolt-xl0 ^meta not attached to collection literals ({}/[]/#{})
jolt-265 syntax-quote doesn't fully-qualify core syms to clojure.core/
jolt-edb syntax-quote ~/~@ not processed inside set literals
* core: fix 5 Clojure-conformance gaps surfaced by jank tests
All from adapting jank's form/reader tests; each fix verified in interpret +
compile modes and the spec tests now assert the correct behavior.
- jolt-vdo: case now rejects duplicate test constants at expansion (Clojure
compile error), via bootstrap-safe duplicate detection (00-syntax; analyzer.clj
uses case during its own build, so seed-only fns).
- jolt-w2v: loop bindings are now sequential like let — a later init can
reference an earlier binding. Fixed the interpreter loop* (accumulating scope)
and the back end emit-loop (bind initial inits in a sequential Janet let before
entering the recur target).
- jolt-6x1: #() reader computes the fixed arity from the MAX positional (%2 ->
[p1 p2 & rest]); % and %1 unify; unused lower slots get placeholder params.
- jolt-xl0: ^meta on collection literals ({}/[]/#{}) now attaches — read-meta
passes the NORMALIZED metadata map to with-meta (was the raw meta-form).
- jolt-edb: syntax-quote processes ~/~@ inside set literals (new __sqset builder
in core + set branches in syntax-quote* and syntax-quote-lower).
Deferred: jolt-265 (fully-qualify core syms to clojure.core/ in syntax-quote) —
it passes conformance but breaks the standalone uberscript (the ns macro emits
unqualified require/in-ns, which then qualify and break bundled require/alias).
Reverted to bare (functionally resolves); re-opened with the finding.
Gate green incl full jpm build + jpm test: conformance 269x3, suite >=4034/67,
fixpoint, self-host, sci 422/0, uberscript, all unit + spec (forms 55, reader 31).
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Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
* core: Stage 2 Task 2 tier 4b — compile ns (+ use/import/refer-clojure)
ns becomes a macro (00-syntax) expanding to (do (in-ns 'name) (require …)
(use …) (import …) (refer-clojure …)) — matching Clojure, where require is
a fn and ns expands to require calls. use/import/refer-clojure join the
namespace ops as ctx-capturing clojure.core fns (use-impl/import-impl/
refer-clojure-impl, interned by install-stateful-fns!). Removed the ns
interpreter special arm; dropped ns/use/import from host_iface special-names
and loader stateful-head?.
Placement matters: ns lives in the FIRST overlay tier (00-syntax), because
the self-hosted analyzer build is triggered while 10-seq loads and processes
jolt.analyzer's own (ns …) form — ns must exist by then. Its body resolves
fn/map/reduce/cond at expansion time, by which point all of 00-syntax has
loaded. The bootstrap compiler (compiler.janet) still PUNTS ns/in-ns/require/
use/import (it compiles analyzer.clj/ir.clj, whose ns forms must fall back to
the interpreter that expands the macro) — only the self-hosted analyzer
compiles them.
use-impl fixes a latent bug: it now refers the used ns's vars into the
CURRENT ns (the old special interned a ns into itself, a no-op).
ns/use/import now compile + interpret as plain invokes. fallback-zero: ns off
must-punt, onto must-compile.
Gate green: conformance 267x3, fallback-zero 38/4, bootstrap-fixpoint
stage1==2==3, self-host, staged-bootstrap, sci-bootstrap, clojure-test-suite
>=4034/67, namespace, deps-loader, cli, aot, embedded-stdlib, uberscript,
features 78/78, all unit + spec.
* test/core: cover ns form + :use; fix use-impl spec parsing
Checking test coverage for the namespace tiers surfaced a real bug nothing
exercised: use-impl checked (array? s) to find a spec's ns symbol, but a
vector spec like [src.x] is a pvec/tuple, not a Janet array — so (:use ...)
and standalone (use ...) errored. Fixed to coerce (pvec->array) then take the
head when the spec is indexed (matching require-impl).
Added coverage that was missing:
- conformance (x3 modes): the (ns …) form itself + :use refers.
- namespaces-spec: (ns …) form, :use, standalone use.
The :use/(use …) path had ZERO tests before, which is why the bug slipped
through earlier tiers.
EBNF needs no change — it's a reader/syntax grammar with no special-forms
enumeration; ns/require/protocol syntax is unchanged (the destructuring note
was already updated in jolt-f79).
Gate green: conformance 269x3, fallback-zero 38/4, self-host, sci-bootstrap,
bootstrap-fixpoint, staged-bootstrap, clojure-test-suite >=4034/67, namespace,
all unit + spec (namespaces 27/27).
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Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
* core: compile macro expanders via staged bootstrap (Stage 2 Task 1)
Macros are now compiled, not interpreted, by steady state — matching
Clojure (macros are ordinary compiled fns the Java seed compiles for
clojure.core) and ClojureScript (macros compiled, invoked at compile
time). Neither reference keeps an interpreted-closure fallback.
The early macros (00-syntax) are defined while the self-hosted analyzer
is still being bootstrapped (it builds lazily after the overlay loads),
so macro-compile-hook returns nil and they get an interpreted closure.
The bootstrap compiler.janet can't substitute (it punts on syntax-quote,
which nearly every expander uses).
Fix = staged bootstrap, the same pattern as the compiler fixpoint:
defmacro stashes the expander source on the var (:macro-src) plus a
:macro-uses-env flag; once the overlay + analyzer are fully built,
backend/recompile-macros! (via ensure-macros-compiled! at the end of
load-core-overlay!) compiles each stashed expander through the now-live
analyzer and rebinds the var, marking :macro-compiled. Idempotent;
&env/&form macros keep the interpreted closure (the compiled fn* has no
such params). The interpreter is now a build-time crutch, gone by
steady state.
Rewrote if-not/if-let/if-some/assert from '& [else]' rest-destructuring
(which the analyzer punts on) to a plain rest param + (first rest), so
all 47 overlay macros compile. Analyzer rest-destructuring gap: jolt-f79.
47/47 overlay macros compiled, 0 interpreted; user macros compile
immediately post-init. Gate green: conformance 267x3, fallback-zero
31/5, bootstrap-fixpoint stage1==2==3, self-host, staged-bootstrap,
lazy-infinite 44/44, clojure-test-suite >=4034/67, sci-bootstrap,
features 78/78, all unit+spec, core-bench neutral.
* core: wrap macro expanders in fn (not fn*) so destructured arglists compile
Follow-up to the staged macro-compile change. The macro-recompile pass
wrapped each expander in the raw fn* primitive, which punts on a
destructuring rest param — so if-not/if-let/if-some/assert (using the
canonical '& [else]') couldn't compile and had been rewritten to plain
rest params as a workaround.
Root cause: fn* is the primitive; the fn MACRO is what desugars
destructuring (rest, map, nested) into the body before lowering. Wrapping
expanders in fn instead of fn* compiles any destructured macro arglist
uniformly, so the workaround is unnecessary — reverted those 4 macros to
the canonical '& [else]' forms.
Net: rest-destructuring is fully compiled for all normal code (fn/defn/
let/macro params). Only the hand-written raw fn* primitive still punts
(jolt-f79, downgraded to P4 — falls back to interpreter, still correct).
47/47 overlay macros compiled. Gate green: conformance 267x3,
fallback-zero 31/5, bootstrap-fixpoint stage1==2==3, self-host,
staged-bootstrap, lazy-infinite 44/44, clojure-test-suite >=4034/67,
sci-bootstrap, features, all unit+spec.
* core: fn*/let*/loop* are plain-symbol primitives, matching Clojure (jolt-f79)
jolt-f79 asked to compile destructuring in fn* rest params. Checking
against Clojure inverts the premise: Clojure's fn* REJECTS destructuring
at compile time ('fn params must be Symbols'; let*/loop* 'Bad binding
form, expected symbol'). So the self-hosted analyzer was already correct
— fn*/let*/loop* are plain-symbol primitives; the fn/let/loop/defn
MACROS desugar destructuring. The real defect was the interpreter
leniently destructuring raw fn*, and defn emitting raw fn* to rely on it.
Changes:
- evaluator: fn*/let*/loop* now reject non-symbol binding forms with
Clojure's exact messages (require-symbol-params/plain-sym?), so the
interpreter agrees with the analyzer + Clojure.
- 00-syntax: defn emits the fn MACRO (not raw fn*) so destructuring
params desugar; unnamed, so self-recursion still resolves via the var.
- 00-syntax: completing that exposed a real gap — the overlay destructure
fn didn't handle kwargs (a map pattern bound against a fn's sequential
rest); it had only worked via the interpreter's destructure-bind. Added
the seq->map coercion to the map? branch (sequential: 1 map elt => that
map, else apply hash-map), matching destructure-bind so interpret ==
compile.
Net: fn*/let*/loop* are plain-symbol primitives across interpreter,
analyzer, and Clojure; all real destructuring (fn/defn/let/loop/macro
params, incl kwargs & {:keys}) compiles through the macros with no
interpreter fallback. Regression spec added.
Gate green: conformance 267x3, fallback-zero 31/5, bootstrap-fixpoint
stage1==2==3, self-host, staged-bootstrap, lazy-infinite 44/44,
clojure-test-suite >=4034/67, sci-bootstrap, features 78/78, all
unit+spec (destructuring 50/50).
* docs: clarify fn*/let*/loop* take plain symbols only (jolt-f79)
grammar.ebnf: the destructuring note already attributed patterns to the
binding MACROS; make the boundary explicit — the fn*/let*/loop* PRIMITIVES
they desugar to take plain symbols only (a non-symbol binding errors, as
in Clojure).
self-hosting-compiler.md: the 'compile destructuring via a shared
destructure expander instead of falling back' item is done (and its
jolt-7dl ref was stale) — destructuring now compiles through the
fn/let/loop/defn macros' desugaring; the primitives reject patterns.
* core: Stage 2 Task 2 tier 1 — compile syntax-quote + definterface/extend/proxy
First slice of moving stateful forms onto the compile path (jolt-eaa).
- loader stateful-head?: drop syntax-quote (the analyzer's `handled` set
already compiles it; routing it to the interpreter was redundant).
- host_iface special-names: drop definterface/extend/proxy (stub macros
expanding to def/nil — their expansions compile once unpunted).
- letfn stays interpreted: its let* expansion needs letrec semantics
(mutual recursion between the fns), which sequential compiled let* lacks
— a later tier.
Gate green: conformance 267x3, fallback-zero 31/5, bootstrap-fixpoint
stage1==2==3, self-host, staged-bootstrap, clojure-test-suite >=4034/67,
features 78/78, all unit + protocol/multimethod/macro specs.
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Co-authored-by: Yogthos <yogthos@gmail.com>
adds self-hosted compiler is functionally:
- The default compile path is the portable pipeline using jolt.analyzer (Clojure) → host-neutral IR → backend.janet.
- The analyzer is itself Clojure, compiled by jolt for true self-hosting.
- bootstrap-fixpoint passes (stage1 == stage2 == stage3): rebuilding the compiler on its own output.
- clojure.core is now self-hosted in the overlay.
- Stateful forms (defmacro/ns/deftype/defmulti/require/in-ns) are interpreted by design.
Destructuring (drove by trying to load Selmer):
- defmacro params now destructure like fn (parse-params + destructure-bind), so
[& [a & more :as all]] and {:keys ...} work in macro arglists.
- map-destructuring a sequential value treats it as keyword args (alternating
k/v, or a trailing map) — the [& {:keys [...]}] form, in fns and macros.
- :keys/:syms accept namespaced symbols (x/y): looks up the namespaced key,
binds the bare local.
deps.edn: read with Jolt's reader instead of Janet's parse, so EDN ';' line
comments are handled (Janet treats ';' as splice).
clojure.java.io: the shim was at clojure/java_io.clj (ns clojure.java-io, never
the clojure.java.io that code requires) and used bare-qualified Janet calls that
the janet.* bridge no longer resolves. Moved to clojure/java/io.clj and rewritten
on janet.file/os: file/reader/writer/resource/copy/delete-file/make-parents.
Specs in destructuring-spec; destructuring note in the ebnf.
The reader expanded ^X form to (with-meta form X), which evaluated the tag (so
^String errored 'Unable to resolve symbol: String') and, as a param, was no
longer a bare symbol (so the arg bound to nil). Now a keyword/symbol/string hint
on a symbol attaches to the symbol's :meta and the symbol stays bare, so type
hints are transparent in params, lets, and bodies. Map metadata still uses a
runtime with-meta form.
meta now returns a symbol's :meta, and def applies the name's metadata
(^:dynamic, ^:private, ^Type tag, ^{:doc}) to the var, so (meta (var x)) is
consistent. Specs in metadata-spec; grammar note in the ebnf.
README notes regex \p{...} as unsupported (separate from this).
read-char read the char name with symbol-char?, so a literal whose char isn't a
symbol char (\{, \(, \), \,, \%, …) came back as an empty name and errored
'Unsupported character'. Now a single non-symbol char after \ is taken as a
one-character literal of that char. Surfaced by funcool/cuerdas (uses \{), which
now loads. Spec cases added.
