Conformance gaps surfaced re-running the library suites:
- defn now keeps a leading docstring as :doc metadata — it was dropped, so
(:doc (meta #'f)) was always nil. Rides the def docstring slot.
- assert (and :pre/:post) throw a real AssertionError instead of an ex-info, so
(catch AssertionError …) / (thrown? AssertionError …) match, with Clojure's
"Assert failed: <msg>\n<form>" message.
- instance? clojure.lang.Seqable was conflated with ISeq, so a vector/map read
as not-Seqable. Split them: Seqable covers every persistent collection, ISeq
only seqs.
Running cognitect aws-api's pure test namespaces (signing/shapes/protocols/
util/retry/endpoints) surfaced general gaps:
- extend-protocol/extend-type accept a computed class type, e.g.
(Class/forName "[B") for the byte-array class — the byte-array idiom data.json
and aws-api use. The macro grouping handled only symbol/nil heads (it crashed on
a list type); type->name resolves a Class value via .getName; a byte-array
dispatches on the "[B" host tag.
- java.nio.ByteBuffer over a jolt byte-array (wrap/allocate/get/put/array/
remaining/position/limit/duplicate/flip), plus extend-protocol to it.
- java.util.Arrays (equals/copyOf/copyOfRange/fill) and java.util.Random
(nextBytes/nextInt/…).
- java.net.URI/create and clojure.lang.RT/baseLoader statics.
- clojure.core.async/promise-chan (deliver-once, peek-don't-pop).
- a failed java.time parse throws DateTimeParseException (typed), so
(catch DateTimeParseException …) matches it instead of leaking an untyped
condition.
The XML side lives in the jolt-lang/xml library (libxml2 over jolt.ffi); ByteBuffer
stays in core as a generic java.nio primitive.
Gate: make test green (corpus +6 JVM-certified rows, 0 NEW divergence; unit
553/553; SCI 211).
Shaking out clojure.core.memoize (207 assertions, 0 fail) cleared several
general gaps:
- deref/@ on a deftype or reify implementing clojure.lang.IDeref dispatches to
its deref method (RetryingDelay / make-derefable).
- deftype mutable fields (^:unsynchronized-mutable / ^:volatile-mutable) are
read live: a set! within a method is observed by a later read in the same
invocation, not the entry-time capture. Needed for double-checked locking.
Immutable fields stay let-bound. Field reads rewrite to (.-field inst) with
lexical-shadow tracking.
- def metadata values are evaluated, like Clojure: ^{:k (f)} stores (f)'s
result and ^{:af some-fn} the fn. :tag stays a literal hint.
- try dispatches catch clauses by class in order via the exception supertype
hierarchy; a non-matching value re-throws, an untyped host condition is caught
by a RuntimeException/Exception/Throwable clause. Previously the last clause
won and the class was ignored.
- locking takes a real per-object monitor (recursive Chez mutex) now that
futures/agents/threads share one heap; it was a no-op.
- supers/ancestors reflect a small modeled JVM interface hierarchy, so
(ancestors (class f)) yields Runnable/Callable (core.memoize's arg check).
- AssertionError / Error constructors.
JOLT_FEATURES is gone from the docs: it isn't read anywhere on Chez, and the
reader already includes :clj in its default feature set. RFC 0002's
{:jolt :default} design was reverted in the reader; docs now match the code.
Raises the SCI floor 205 -> 210.
Replace the strong-ref stub with genuine reclamation. The referent is held
through a weak-cons, so Chez's generational collector reclaims it once it is
otherwise unreachable (the pair's car becomes the bwp object, and .get returns
nil). A guardian registered on the referent makes the reference itself available
the instant its referent is collected, which ReferenceQueue.poll surfaces as
enqueued — the same hook clojure.core.cache's clear-soft-cache! drains.
Chez has no softer-than-weak reference, so a SoftReference clears on
unreachability rather than under memory pressure: a SoftCache evicts more eagerly
than the JVM's but is now real GC eviction, not an unbounded strong cache.
WeakReference gets the same (faithful) semantics. Added System/gc -> a full
collect so callers (and the queue) can force the cycle.
core.cache stays 1314/0/0 (its test values are immortal literals). Corpus row for
System/gc; make test + shakesmoke green.
Closes the last clojure.core.cache gaps (now 1314/0/0, including the 1000-thread
cache-stampede):
- java.lang.Thread over Chez fork-thread (shared heap): (Thread. thunk) + start/
join/run/isAlive, on a "user-thread" tag distinct from Thread/currentThread's
interrupt shim. java.util.concurrent.CountDownLatch (count/mutex/condition).
- java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentHashMap = the mutable HashMap shim; get / count /
contains? read it (clojure.core), which SoftCache uses on its backing map.
- java.lang.ref.SoftReference / ReferenceQueue: no JVM GC reference semantics, so
the referent is held strongly (a SoftCache is unbounded rather than GC-evicting),
but enqueue / poll work so clear-soft-cache! drains the queue.
JVM-certified corpus rows. make test + shakesmoke green.
Further clojure.core.cache fixes (198 -> 257 of its assertions):
- delay: a throwing body re-ran on every force and never became realized?. Run it
once like Clojure's Delay — cache the exception, mark realized, re-throw the same
on each deref. Fixes value-fn memoization / cache-stampede protection.
- deftype/defrecord: a method name appearing in two protocols with different
arities (data.priority-map's seq is in IPersistentMap [this] AND Sorted
[this asc]) registered per-protocol and shadowed; merge clauses by name across
all protocols into one multi-arity fn.
- empty?/peek/pop (IPersistentStack) dispatch through a deftype's methods; (= a-
deftype other) uses its equiv method (so caches compare to their backing map);
seq handles a host iterator (iterator-seq over .iterator).
- pop of an empty PersistentQueue returns it, like the JVM (was an error).
JVM-certified corpus rows. make test + shakesmoke green.
General fixes shaken out running clojure.core.cache (66 -> 198 of its assertions):
- Map destructuring applied an :or default only for :keys/:strs/:syms, not a
direct {x :x} binding — so {x :x :or {x 9}} (and the & {…} kwargs form) ignored
the default. Apply it for the direct binding too.
- fn didn't implement :pre/:post: a leading conditions map was evaluated as a body
literal (so % was unbound and (.q %) blew up). Recognize it and assert pre
before the body, bind % to the result, assert post, return %.
- (.q inst) on a deftype field with no matching method reads the field, like the
JVM (was "No method q").
- A deftype implementing the clojure.lang collection interfaces now dispatches
dissoc (without), contains? (containsKey), peek/pop (IPersistentStack), and
keys/vals (via its Seqable seq) through its methods — they were field-only, so
core.cache's caches and data.priority-map didn't behave as maps.
JVM-certified corpus rows for each. make test + shakesmoke green.
input-bytes handled in-stream/bytevector/byte-array sources but not a host
byte-input-stream table (:jolt/input-stream — http-client's ByteArrayInputStream),
so io/copy fell through to rendering it as text (#[chez-htable …]) instead of its
bytes. Drain it like slurp does. Fixes http-client's response-body handling
(jolt-bjbi): its suite goes 100/16-fail -> 116/0, and the ring adapter's.
io/copy handled file/stream/writer targets but not a host byte-output-stream
table (jolt-lang/http-client's ByteArrayOutputStream shim, :jolt/output-stream),
erroring 'don't know how to write to'. Dispatch through the shim's .write method,
byte-exact for a byte source — the JVM's io/copy writes to any OutputStream.
Shaken out getting ring-defaults (and its ring-core/anti-forgery/session stack)
to load and serve static resources on jolt. All general fixes, all runtime:
- Class/forName throws a catchable ClassNotFoundException for a class jolt can't
back (it returned a broken truthy value for any name, and crashed on use). Lets
the common (try (Class/forName "optional.Dep") (catch ...)) probe libraries use
to detect an absent dependency work — e.g. ring's joda-time check.
- deps: reconcile native libs (and source roots) in one step, deduped by library
identity, instead of the ad-hoc distinct at each call site. An app pulling two
libs that declare the same shared object (libcrypto via both jolt-crypto and
http-client) now includes and loads it once.
- io: a File answers getProtocol ("file") / getFile so resource-serving
middleware that expects io/resource to hand back a file: URL works; the
classloader gains getResources (every source root holding the resource).
- clojure.string/replace accepts a char match/replacement, like the JVM.
JVM-certified corpus rows for the Class/forName and string/replace behavior.
Finishes core.match — its full test suite (115/115) now passes, including the
two patterns the earlier work left out:
- Regex-literal patterns. A #"…" now reads as a regex VALUE (Clojure parity: the
reader constructs the Pattern, so a macro receives a regex, not jolt's tagged
form), and the analyzer compiles a regex value to the same :regex IR leaf via
its source. emit-quoted handles a quoted regex; a regex value carries the
java.util.regex.Pattern host tag so extend-protocol/instance? dispatch on it.
- Primitive-array patterns. A ^Type hint's :tag is now the SYMBOL (e.g. `ints`),
matching the JVM, so core.match's array-tag lookup engages the array
specialization (alength/aget). jolt's :tag consumers already tolerate a symbol
(hc-cell-num-ret normalizes; tag->nkind/def-meta handle both).
Also: a library-conformance directive in CLAUDE.md, and the supported-libraries
list (docs + site) simplified to one-line entries — a listed library is assumed
to work fully, so no tallies or feature enumerations. core.match + transit-jolt
added to the list.
Seed change (reader/backend/30-macros) -> re-minted; the rest runtime. JVM-
certified corpus rows; the stale `symbol hint -> :tag` divergence is dropped from
the allowlist (jolt now matches the JVM). make test + shakesmoke green.
Running clojure.core.match (a macro-heavy library that builds its compiler out
of deftypes implementing clojure.lang interfaces) shook out a cluster of general
gaps. Its own suite goes from not-loading to 111/115 assertions.
- deftype/defrecord implementing a clojure.lang collection interface now drives
the core fns: Indexed -> nth, Counted -> count, Associative -> assoc, ILookup
-> get/valAt (non-field keys only, so a method's own field bindings don't
recurse), ISeq -> seq/first/rest, IPersistentCollection -> conj, IFn -> the
value is callable. A jrec is still a map of fields by default; the interface
method wins when declared.
- Multi-arity inline methods are grouped into one fn (a type with (nth [_ i]) and
(nth [_ i x]) kept only the last before). Built as data, not a nested
syntax-quote, so a `(= ~ocr ~l) method body keeps its unquotes.
- instance?/satisfies? recognize a protocol a type implements, including a MARKER
protocol with no methods (core.match's IPseudoPattern) — deftype/defrecord now
record protocol satisfaction even with zero methods. Added ILookup/Indexed/
Counted to the instance? taxonomy for the built-in collections.
- Syntax-quote: a fully-qualified class name (clojure.lang.ILookup) stays bare
instead of being namespace-qualified; (unquote x) is detected in a lazy seq
(a macro that builds its template with map, e.g. deftype's rewrite-set).
- clojure.set union/intersection/difference are variadic (& sets) + union 0-arity.
- java map view methods: keySet/values/entrySet/size/isEmpty.
- deprecated java.util.Date getters (getYear/getMonth/...) + the multi-arg
(Date. year-1900 month0 date hrs min) constructor.
Seed change (deftype/defrecord macros + clojure.set) -> re-minted; the rest are
runtime. 11 JVM-certified corpus rows; make test + shakesmoke green.
clojure.edn's __read-tagged seam called (empty-pmap) — applying the empty-pmap
VALUE as a procedure — so an unknown tag (e.g. #object[...] from a JVM-printed
object, or any unregistered #foo) crashed the Chez VM with "attempt to apply
non-procedure" and surfaced a malformed condition (class :object, nil message)
instead of a catchable error.
Throw a clean ex-info naming the tag, matching the JVM's "No reader function
for tag <tag>". A reader port over edn (transit-jolt's read-conformance skip
path, aero, etc.) now catches a real exception instead of aborting.
clojure.core/read-string stays lenient (returns the tagged form) so clojure.edn
can apply :readers / :default before falling through to this throw.
Expand java.io so libraries that touch the filesystem work unchanged.
File: the full method surface — length, lastModified, can{Read,Write,Execute},
isHidden, list, mkdir(s), delete, createNewFile, renameTo, getParentFile,
get{Absolute,Canonical}File, compareTo/equals/hashCode — plus the statics
separator / pathSeparator / createTempFile / listRoots. A File now keeps the
path as given (new File("rel").getPath() is "rel", .isAbsolute false); a
relative path resolves against JOLT_PWD only when the filesystem is touched,
matching the JVM. slurp/spit and the dir helpers go through the same
resolution, fixing a spit-vs-slurp inconsistency.
Streams (host/chez/io-streams.ss) — each a jhost wrapping a Chez port, so
buffering, EOF and binary<->char transcoding come from Chez:
- FileInputStream / FileOutputStream / ByteArrayInputStream /
ByteArrayOutputStream / BufferedInputStream / BufferedOutputStream
- FileReader / FileWriter / InputStreamReader / OutputStreamWriter /
BufferedReader / BufferedWriter
Buffered* return the wrapped stream (Chez ports are already buffered).
clojure.java.io: input-stream/output-stream now yield real byte streams (were
aliased to the char reader/writer); added copy (byte-exact for byte sources),
make-parents, delete-file. with-open also closes file-writer/port-writer/
print-writer (a pre-existing gap).
All runtime shims, no re-mint. 15 JVM-certified corpus rows; make test +
shakesmoke green.
Shaking out tick's api and alpha.interval suites (api 353->359, interval
0->103 passing) cleared a set of general gaps:
- Named-zone DST. Zones resolved to a fixed representative offset, so
America/New_York in August read -05:00 not -04:00. Add US/EU DST rules
(compact transition-date math) and make instant<->zoned, the zone rules'
getOffset, and the zoned equality arm DST-aware.
- Nanosecond zoned/offset times. Instant is nanos but atZone/atOffset/
toInstant/withZoneSameInstant and Instant/parse went through epoch-ms,
truncating sub-ms. Route them through nanos.
- Locale month/day names. A formatter dropped its Locale; carry it and add
French names so MMM under Locale/FRENCH renders "mai".
- Callable records. A defrecord implementing clojure.lang.IFn (tick's
GeneralRelation) is now invokable: jolt-invoke dispatches to its inline
invoke method. Also give collections the Iterable host tag so a protocol
extended to Iterable matches vectors/seqs.
- Imported class short names. (:import [java.time ZonedDateTime]) then
(. ZonedDateTime parse s) resolved to nil; an otherwise-unresolved bare
Capitalized name that's a registered host class now resolves as a class.
- Data readers. A project's data_readers.{clj,cljc} is loaded into
*data-readers* (reader namespaces required eagerly); registered #tag
literals in source rewrite to (reader-fn 'form). clojure.core/read-string
now applies #inst/#uuid/#"regex" and *data-readers* like Clojure.
- Duration/between accepts zoned/offset date-times.
All runtime shims, no re-mint. docs/libraries.md: tick full pass + aero.
Four general gaps, shaken out by loading clojure.spec.alpha:
- Special forms were shadowable by a same-named macro. analyze-list
macroexpanded before checking special forms, so a ns that redefs def/and/or
(spec excludes them via :refer-clojure :exclude) made a bare def resolve to
the macro instead of the special form, breaking every defn after. Now a head
in the special-form set is never macroexpanded, matching the reference
macroexpand1 isSpecial check.
- reify dropped all but the last arity of a multi-arity protocol method (spec
reifies (specize* [s]) and (specize* [s _])). The macro keyed methods by name
and overwrote; now it groups arities into one multi-arity fn.
- reify instances did not implement IObj: with-meta threw and (instance?
clojure.lang.IObj r) was false. Every Clojure reify carries metadata. with-meta
now copies the reify to a fresh identity (shared method table) and keys its
meta; instance? IObj/IMeta is true for any reify. This was the registry bug —
spec's with-name returned nil for specs, so get-spec missed.
- (set! (. Class field) val) was rejected. spec toggles
clojure.lang.RT/checkSpecAsserts this way; the analyzer now lowers it to a
jolt.host/set-static-field! call over a mutable-statics table, and a plain
Class/field read consults that table.
Also: .name/.getName on a Namespace and .ns/.sym on a Var (spec's ns-qualify /
->sym). analyzer + reify are seed sources (re-minted). spec.alpha now does
valid?/conform/cat/keys/explain-str/check-asserts. tick.alpha.interval-test still
needs time-literals data readers (separate).
The Instant jhost stored epoch-ms, so plusNanos/getNano rounded to the
millisecond and two instants a nanosecond apart compared =. Store epoch-nanos
instead: mk-instant still takes ms (scales to nanos) for the ms-based zone/Date
callers, mk-instant-nanos/inst-nanos own the nano arithmetic, and inst-ms floors
nanos back to ms. plus/minus/getNano/truncatedTo/compare/equals and the ISO
renderer all run on nanos; toString shows the fraction in 3/6/9-digit groups like
ISO_INSTANT. Fixes tick's interval coincidence test (shift end by one nano).
ZoneOffset/ZoneId (SHORT_IDS, fixed-offset + UTC + system; named zones via a
fixed-offset table), ZonedDateTime/OffsetDateTime/OffsetTime, Clock (fixed/
system, with now [clock] arity), and DateTimeFormatter integration (ofPattern
+ ISO_* constants, .format/.parse over the rich java.time values via the
inst-time.ss pattern engine). systemDefault resolves to UTC to keep the
#inst atZone/toInstant round-trip machine-tz-independent.
tick.core + tick.protocols + tick.locale-en-us load; tick's api_test runs
31 tests / 352 pass / 7 fail / 0 error. The 7 are host gaps: named-zone DST
(no tzdb), French locale month names (no locale DB), nanosecond Instant.
General fixes surfaced by tick: :ns/keys map destructuring ({:tick/keys [..]})
in 00-syntax.clj (re-minted), and extend-protocol to java.time classes
(records.ss host-type-set). 12 corpus rows certified vs JVM. make test +
shakesmoke green, selfhost holds, 0 new divergences, data.json stays 138/139.
Duration (ISO PT.. toString, between, full arithmetic), Period (between with
borrow, P.. toString, normalized), full Month/DayOfWeek enums (named constants,
print as their name — fixes the Phase-1 raw-jhost print), Year, YearMonth
(2020-02 toString, leap, atDay/atEndOfMonth), ChronoUnit (between/getDuration)
and ChronoField. The temporal machinery on the Phase-1 types now works with
ChronoUnit/ChronoField: (.plus t n DAYS), (.until t1 t2 unit), (.get/.getLong
t field), (.with t field v), (.isSupported ..), (.truncatedTo ..).
Analyzer: (. Class method args) with a class target lowers to a static call
(Class/method args) instead of mis-dispatching as an instance call on the arg
— matches JVM; needed by cljc.java-time.year. Seed re-minted; selfhost holds.
The Phase-2 cljc.java-time namespaces load; tick.core advances to a Phase-3
zone gap. 10 corpus rows certified vs JVM. make test + shakesmoke green, 0 new
divergences, data.json stays 138/139.
Core java.time value types as jolt host objects backed by the inst-time.ss
calendar engine (days-from-civil/civil-from-days/inst-fields/format-ms), in a
new host/chez/java-time.ss. tz-free reps: LocalDate=epoch-day,
LocalTime=nano-of-day, LocalDateTime=(epoch-day,nano-of-day); Instant reuses
the ms-based instant jhost (ms granularity; nano is a documented gap). Each
type registers statics (of/parse/now/MIN/MAX/...), instance methods
(plus/minus/with/get/isBefore/until/toString/...), =/hash, compare,
ISO-8601 print, instance?, and value-host-tags for protocol dispatch.
Reconciles the old ms-based local-date/local-dt stubs into the rich types
(LocalDateTime now prints ISO; .toLocalDate/.atZone paths preserved). The
four cljc.java-time namespaces (local-date/local-time/local-date-time/instant)
load. Deep temporal-field/unit machinery (range/get-long/with-field/until/
adjust-into) stubbed for Phase 2.
12 corpus rows certified vs JVM 1.12.5. make test + shakesmoke green, 0 new
divergences, data.json stays 138/139, selfhost holds.
class / .getClass now return a Class value that renders like the JVM —
(str c)/.toString -> "class <name>", pr -> "<name>", .getName/.getSimpleName/
.getCanonicalName work — but stays = and hash equal to its name string, so
(= (class x) String), class-keyed maps, multimethod dispatch on class, and
instance? keep working against the bare class-name tokens. instance? unwraps
a Class passed as the type arg.
clojure.test/class-match? no longer assumes (class e) is a string (a jolt-ism;
on the JVM a Class isn't a string either) — reads the name via .getName.
Matches JVM Class.toString, which libraries surface in error messages
(clojure.data.json DJSON-54 expects "...of class java.net.URI"). data.json
suite 139/139 bar the one UTF-16 surrogate test (Unicode-scalar char model).
5 corpus rows certified vs JVM; make test + shakesmoke green, 0 new divergences.
java.util.Calendar (a UTC calendar over epoch-ms): getInstance, the int
field constants, set/get/setTime/getTime/getTimeInMillis. java.time pieces
for a zoned round-trip: DateTimeFormatter/ISO_ZONED_DATE_TIME, formatter
.withZone/.parse, LocalDateTime/parse (with formatter), Instant/from,
.toLocalDate/.atStartOfDay. java.sql.Date is now a distinct class (its own
host value + dispatch tags) so a protocol extended to both java.util.Date
and java.sql.Date routes a sql.Date to its own impl. All UTC-consistent.
data.json print-sql-date + print-time-supports-format pass (suite 137/139).
Replace the 33-line pprint shim with a column-aware pretty printer and a
Common Lisp cl-format engine, ported from the ClojureScript implementation
(no STM — atom-backed fields) and adapted to JVM-Clojure interop. Provides
pprint/write/write-out/with-pprint-dispatch/formatter-out/cl-format and
simple/code dispatch.
core print routes column-aware into an active pretty-writer via a __write
hook (suppressed inside with-out-str captures); PrintWriter host class
forwards into the wrapped writer. Re-mint: pprint is baked into the seed.
Unblocks clojure.data.json/pprint (its pretty-printing test passes).
Directives ~R/~P/~C/~F/~E/~G/~$/~(~) not ported (unused by the targets).
make test + shakesmoke green, 0 new divergences, selfhost holds.
