feat(reflect): apply the AnyClass follow-up rulings - #4493
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Four ratified follow-ups to #4491. Renames on `reflect.class.Field`: `read<T>()` -> `value<T>()` and `metadata()` -> `meta()`. Neither collides with the AnyClass interface surface, but a class shares ONE name space across fields and methods, and `Field` already had a `meta` field. The storage moves to `_meta` and the accessor owns the public name, matching `PendingType._resolved`/`resolved()` in the same file. `AnyClass.get<T>` is now the composition the ruling states: a `has_field` guard, then `get_field(name)`, then `Field.value<T>()`. Spelled with `let ... else` rather than `get_field(name)?.value<T>()` because an optional-chained call does not thread the type argument to the callee. A `while (true)` whose body holds no `break` bound to it now diverges, so it satisfies E0113 as a `let ... else` divergence form. TIR keeps no break-target machinery -- `loop_depth` is a bare counter and the `Stmt::Break` arm's `Diverges::Always` is discarded by the enclosing loop -- so the binding is recovered syntactically by `loop_body_breaks`, which descends everything except the bodies of nested loops. A condition folded to the literal type `true` counts too; `for (;;)` does not, since its empty condition lowers to `Expr::Missing`. `Stmt::While` is deliberately kept out of the E0146 terminator allowlist, matching what a diverging `if` already does. The ten zero-field builtin companion carriers -- Int, Bigint, Float, String, Bool, Null, Uint8Array, Array, Map and TypeValue -- can no longer be built with a class literal. `builtin_companion_of` requires the baml package and an EMPTY namespace, the same discipline as `is_builtin_root_type`, and is checked at the two class-literal sites beside `is_type_kind_class` under a new shared-factory diagnostic E0166. This rejects the generic carriers before lowering, where their phantom type parameters used to reach MIR as error-recovery types and panic, and it closes the only way to mint a carrier instance that narrowed to `baml.AnyClass`.
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR renames the reflection field accessor, adds E0166 diagnostics for builtin companion construction, and improves divergence inference for statically infinite loops with precise break analysis. ChangesReflection API update
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Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The compiler may incorrectly reject valid diverging let-else code when an unreachable break appears inside a loop, producing a false E0113 diagnostic. This bounded correctness issue should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging; the changelog wording cleanup is non-blocking. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Source
participant Inference
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Source->>Inference: construct builtin companion class
Inference->>TIRDiagnostics: emit CannotConstructBuiltinCompanion
TIRDiagnostics->>LSPDiagnostics: map to E0166 and render details
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LoopInference->>LoopBreakTraversal: inspect loop body and update statement
LoopBreakTraversal-->>LoopInference: report reachable break edges
LoopInference->>FlowFacts: classify statically true loop as diverging
FlowFacts->>LetElseChecker: provide loop control-flow result
LetElseChecker-->>LetElseChecker: accept or report E0113
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7438-7452: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winExtract the duplicated builtin-companion rejection into a shared helper.
infer_object(Lines 7438-7452) andinfer_exported_object(Lines 7584-7598) repeat the identical block: infer fields, infer spreads, pushCannotConstructBuiltinCompanion, returnTy::error(). The same duplication already exists for theis_type_kind_classcheck just above each block. Factor both class-name rejections (is_type_kind_classandbuiltin_companion_of) into one private helper that takesfields,spreads,object, andclass_name, and returnsOption<Ty>. Call it once at the top of each function. This keeps future diagnostic changes (wording, ordering, new rejected kinds) in one place instead of two.♻️ Sketch of the shared helper
+ fn reject_uninhabited_class_literal( + &mut self, + body: &ExprBody, + object: ExprId, + class_name: &baml_type::QualifiedTypeName, + fields: &[ObjectExprField], + spreads: &[baml_compiler2_ast::SpreadField], + ) -> Option<Ty> { + if baml_type::type_kind::is_type_kind_class(class_name) { + for field in fields { + self.infer_expr(body, field.value, &Expectation::None); + } + for spread in spreads { + self.infer_expr(body, spread.expr, &Expectation::None); + } + self.pending_diags + .push(PendingDiag::CannotConstructReflectionKind { + expr: object, + class_name: class_name.clone(), + }); + return Some(Ty::error()); + } + if let Some(companion) = baml_type::type_kind::builtin_companion_of(class_name) { + for field in fields { + self.infer_expr(body, field.value, &Expectation::None); + } + for spread in spreads { + self.infer_expr(body, spread.expr, &Expectation::None); + } + self.pending_diags + .push(PendingDiag::CannotConstructBuiltinCompanion { + expr: object, + class_name: class_name.clone(), + companion, + }); + return Some(Ty::error()); + } + None + }Also applies to: 7584-7598
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer/flow.rs`:
- Around line 317-350: Update loop_body_breaks to traverse only reachable
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs`:
- Around line 7438-7452: Extract the duplicated class-name rejection logic from
infer_object and infer_exported_object into one private helper accepting fields,
spreads, object, and class_name and returning Option<Ty>. Have the helper handle
both is_type_kind_class and builtin_companion_of cases, including field/spread
inference, diagnostic emission, and Ty::error(), then call it once at the top of
each function and return its result when present.
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Amends the follow-up round after Antonio revised ruling 1 and after adversarial review. `Field.metadata()` keeps its name and the `meta` storage field is exactly as #4491 shipped it. The rename to `meta()` forced the storage behind `_meta`, because a class shares one name space across fields and methods; that pushed a public field out of reach and churned every `field.meta` reader, so the ruling was withdrawn. `read<T>()` -> `value<T>()` stands, as does the recomposed `AnyClass.get<T>`. `type_kinds.rs`, `runtime_classes_and_composites.rs` and the VM's `Field` construction are byte-for-byte back to canary, and `Field.metadata` lowers to a direct field read again rather than a method call. Soundness fix in the divergence recognizer: `loop_body_breaks` searched only the loop body, so a `break` in a C-style update slot -- `for (let i = 0; 1 == 1; i = break) {}` -- was invisible and the loop counted as divergent even though that `break` is a real exit edge. Review reproduced a runtime `baml.panics.Unreachable` through `let ... else` and a `-> int` function returning null. The helper now takes the `after` slot and seeds the walk with it; a fourth rejection fixture pins the shape. The E0166 message no longer tells `baml.Bool` and `baml.Null` that they carry methods, since both have entirely empty bodies. The predicate reports whether a carrier declares any, and the shared factory picks "it is only the companion of `bool`" for those two. The divergence recognizer's doc comment now states its real reach: the oracle is the condition's inferred type, so constant folds, flow-narrowed bindings and calls declared `-> true` all qualify, not just the literal. That is sound because a loop havocs every binding its body assigns before the condition is checked, and the narrowed-binding case gains a fixture. Changelog entries added under Features, Breaking and compatibility changes, and Fixes.
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Intentional conservatism, documented in the walk's doc comment: the syntactic break-walk over-counts (rejects) rather than risking under-counting (unsound acceptance) — the adversarial review verified the direction and the only false-positive shapes route through statically-dead branches like if(false){break}, where E0113 with a clear message is an acceptable outcome. Reachability-aware counting is a heavy lift for a pathological shape; deferred. CodeRabbit's own marker shows the finding as addressed in 948320f.
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Change “builtin companion carriers” to “built-in companion carriers” for standard technical spelling.
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Same reachability-aware ask as the previously dismissed review: the break-walk's over-counting is intentional, documented conservatism (safe direction — rejects dead-code shapes like if(false){break} rather than risking unsound acceptance); adversarially reviewed and endorsed. The changelog spelling nit (builtin→built-in) is cosmetic and will ride the next changelog-touching PR rather than costing a full re-gate.
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Four shapes the `ns_optional_chain_type_args` suite did not cover, which is why the callable-field regression passed CI: - **Receiver evaluation count**, through a side-effect counter, for a callable *field* and for a real method: `?.` evaluates its receiver exactly twice. Including the shape that aborted — a receiver that starts returning null after the second evaluation. - **Sys-op through `?.`**: `f?.text()` vs `file.text()` on a `baml.fs.File?`. The opcode itself (`sys_op baml.fs.File.text`, not `call`) is pinned by the namespace's bytecode snapshot. - **Union-typed receivers**, which `?.` could not reach before the fix: a `Dog | Cat | null` receiver dispatching on the runtime class, and a `Pair<int> | Pair<string> | null` receiver whose arms differ only in their class type args. - **Chained `a?.b()?.c<T>()` with null at the *second* stage**: the first `?.` runs its call and the second short-circuits on that call's null result. `Field.read<T>` was renamed to `value<T>` by #4493; the reflection shapes here follow.
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Four shapes the `ns_optional_chain_type_args` suite did not cover, which is why the callable-field regression passed CI: - **Receiver evaluation count**, through a side-effect counter, for a callable *field* and for a real method: `?.` evaluates its receiver exactly twice. Including the shape that aborted — a receiver that starts returning null after the second evaluation. - **Sys-op through `?.`**: `f?.text()` vs `file.text()` on a `baml.fs.File?`. The opcode itself (`sys_op baml.fs.File.text`, not `call`) is pinned by the namespace's bytecode snapshot. - **Union-typed receivers**, which `?.` could not reach before the fix: a `Dog | Cat | null` receiver dispatching on the runtime class, and a `Pair<int> | Pair<string> | null` receiver whose arms differ only in their class type args. - **Chained `a?.b()?.c<T>()` with null at the *second* stage**: the first `?.` runs its call and the second short-circuits on that call's null result. `Field.read<T>` was renamed to `value<T>` by #4493; the reflection shapes here follow.
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…#4495) ## Summary `x?.m<T>()` compiled clean and died at runtime with ``` VM internal error: could not realize type template: template references frame type-arg slot 0 but the frame has 0 type args ``` while the equivalent `if let` / let-else spelling worked. Found during BoundaryML#4493 on the `baml.AnyClass` surface (`value.get_field(name)?.value<T>()`). The optional chain was dropping the call's type arguments. This lowers `x?.m(...)` as the guarded *method call* it is, so `?.` decides **whether** the call happens and never **how** it is made. ## Root cause `baml_compiler2_mir::lower::lower_call` recognizes a method call by its callee shape: `AstExpr::MemberAccess` (`x.m`) or `AstExpr::Path` (`x.m` written as a path). An `AstExpr::OptionalMemberAccess` callee matched neither, so it fell through to the final "the callee is an opaque callable value" branch (`lower.rs:8504` on canary): `MakeBoundMethod` for the receiver, then `Terminator::Call` with a non-constant callee. `baml_compiler2_emit::emit` (`emit.rs:2311`) lowers a non-constant callee to `Instruction::CallIndirect` — which has no `ntypeargs` field. So the `ntypeargs` MIR computed was silently discarded. Verified by instrumenting `lower_call`: the `?.` call site really does compute `ntypeargs=1` and hand it to an indirect call. The `LoadType` operands were pushed and then stranded below the callee frame (a leaked operand-stack slot per call), and the callee frame was seeded only with whatever the `BoundMethod` had curried — the receiver's class-level args, and nothing else. That last detail explains the two shapes of the failure: | receiver | frame the callee got | outcome | | --- | --- | --- | | plain class | `[]` | `slot 0 but the frame has 0 type args` | | generic class | `[class T]` | `slot 1 but the frame has 1 type args` | ## Blast radius (measured on canary, before the fix) The decision was made purely from the callee's AST shape, before anything about the surrounding expression was consulted — so this was a **whole-operator outage for generics**, not a corner case. `?.` + a generic method failed wherever it was written: - receiver forms: plain class, generic class, interface-typed, concrete class with an `implements` method, a bounded type variable (`<T: Iface>`) - call forms: explicit type args (`x?.m<T>()`), type args **inferred** from the arguments (`x?.m(v)`), chained (`a?.b()?.c<T>()`), the reported reflection shape (`value.get_field(name)?.value<T>()`) - syntactic positions: statement position, `let` initializer, argument to another call, operand of a binary operator, inside a template-literal interpolation, inside a `for`/`while` body, inside a lambda body, wrapped in parentheses Already working, and still working: - `x?.m()` with no type args anywhere - `Box<int>?.describe()` — class args only (the `BoundMethod` curried these) - a null receiver: the chain short-circuits and the callee never runs The stdlib already carries a workaround for this bug class — `baml_std/ai/ns_clients/clients.baml:219`: *"`?.method()` on an interface-typed optional trips a VM bug; if-let is the reliable form."* Left in place here (out of scope); it can be simplified as a follow-up. ## Fix `lower_call` now diverts an `OptionalMemberAccess` callee to `lower_optional_method_call`, which emits the null test (joining the enclosing `OptionalChain`'s shared null exit, exactly like `lower_optional_call` does) and then re-enters the ordinary call lowering with the callee viewed as a plain `MemberAccess`. The callee's *expression id* is unchanged, so every TIR lookup — resolution, call plan, receiver type — still keys on the node the type checker recorded. Past the guard the receiver is non-null, so the receiver type narrows (`T | null` → `T`) for the three lookups that read it: interface dispatch, union dispatch, and the receiver's class-level type-arg prefix. That is the same narrowing `dispatch_target_for_member_access` already applied to `x?.field`; `try_lower_interface_dispatch` now shares that helper outright. Without the narrowing, dispatch declines on the `Class<..> | null` union and the class prefix comes back empty, shifting every De Bruijn slot the method's own args occupy. Net effect: `x?.m<T>()` emits exactly what `x.m<T>()` emits — a direct `Call`/`VirtualCall` with the type args leading — under a null branch. The stranded operand-stack slot goes away with it. ### Two follow-ups the normalized callee needed Re-entering the ordinary call lowering means the *normalized* callee (`x.m`) and the *arena node* (`x?.m`) disagree, and two places still read the arena node directly: 1. **A callable-valued field went from two receiver evaluations to three.** `x?.cb(1)`, where `cb` is a function-typed field, resolves to a field, so it declines every direct-dispatch path and lowers the callee as a value — via `lower_to_operand(callee)`, which re-lowered the original `x?.cb` node under the guard and emitted a *second* null test plus a third receiver evaluation. When the third evaluation yielded null (a side-effecting receiver), the field read aborted with `VM internal error: type error: expected instance, got any`. `lower_normalized_callee_operand` now lowers the member access itself at the three fallback sites, restoring the two-evaluation shape the plain method path already had. 2. **A sys-op method reached through `?.` lost its `sys_op` opcode.** `sys_op_callee` / `sys_op_synthetic_type_arg_count` matched only `MemberAccess`, so `f?.text()` on a `baml.fs.File?` emitted a plain `call` of a body-less `$rust_io_function` instead of `sys_op baml.fs.File.text`. That path also skips the omitted-default materialization that only sys-op callees get, so `ctx?.output_format_with(prefix = "…")` emitted `load_const <omitted>` sentinels that would reach the engine. Both matches now accept the optional shape, and `f?.text()` emits the same `sys_op` the plain spelling does. ## Tests New `crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_optional_chain_type_args/` runtime-output suite, each shape pairing the optional spelling with the non-optional one it must agree with: explicit type args vs. let-else, null receiver short-circuit, inferred type args, class-only args, class + method args (slot order), interface and concrete-receiver interface methods, the chained form with a present receiver, a null receiver, and a null arising at the *second* stage, a non-generic `?.` negative control, and the `get_field(name)?.value<T>()` reflection shape — including that a type argument the value does not fit is still a `baml.errors.TypeMismatch`, not a frame-layout failure. Plus, for the follow-ups above: - **Receiver evaluation count**, asserted through a side-effect counter for both a callable field and a real method: `?.` evaluates its receiver exactly twice, including when the receiver starts returning null after the second evaluation (the shape that aborted). - **Sys-op through `?.`**: `f?.text()` vs. `file.text()` on a `baml.fs.File?`. The opcode itself is pinned by the namespace's bytecode snapshot. - **Union-typed receivers**, which `?.` could not reach before: a `Dog | Cat | null` receiver dispatching on the runtime class, and a `Pair<int> | Pair<string> | null` receiver whose arms differ only in their class type args. `s15_sweep_baml_src` gains its first two hir_ty error-channel entries (`expected Speaker, got Cat | Dog`). Those are the union-receiver tests, and they are pre-existing hir_ty imprecision rather than anything `?.` introduces: the plain `a.speak<int>()` spelling on a `Dog | Cat` parameter records the identical entry (checked by adding one and re-running the sweep — entries went 2 → 4). Dispatch, type args and runtime results are all correct; the corpus simply had no union receiver calling a shared-interface method until now. ## Not in scope Two adjacent pre-existing bugs, unchanged by this PR and not type-arg related: 1. **`?.` evaluates its receiver twice.** `get(c, "yes")?.raw` calls `get` twice — once for the null test, once for the access. True of `x?.field` on canary as well; this PR keeps the count at two, and now pins it with a test. 2. **`x?.to_string()` ICEs** (`MIR failed to resolve field access .to_string against class definition ...`). The `to_string`/`to_json`/`from_json` sugar fallbacks match on `MemberAccess`/`Path` only (`is_sugar_callee`), so they never fire for an optional-chained receiver. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **Bug Fixes** - Fixed optional-chained generic method calls so type arguments are preserved and initialized correctly. - Improved dispatch across classes, interfaces, unions, inferred and explicit generics, and chained nullable calls. - Ensured null receivers short-circuit safely without repeated evaluation. - Corrected builtin I/O default argument handling and reflective field type validation. - **Tests** - Added comprehensive coverage for optional chaining, generic methods, dispatch, null handling, system operations, evaluation counts, and type mismatch errors. - **Documentation** - Documented the fixes in the changelog. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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…ML#4519) Implements the reserved half of [B-1582](https://linear.app/boundaryml2/issue/B-1582) item 3 — the ratified specialization API. BoundaryML#4501 fixed everything about runtime types that did not need a new surface; this is the surface. ## What it looks like ```baml let descriptor = pkg.functions().get("root.Extract$render_prompt") ?? throw "not listed" descriptor.is_generic() // true descriptor.generic_params() // [ GenericParam { name: "T" } ] let specialized = descriptor.specialize([record.as_type()]) let render = specialized.get<PromptFn>() ?? throw "no callable" render("records").text() // embeds the runtime class's schema ``` `baml.reflect.function.Type` gains: | method | contract | |---|---| | `is_generic(self) -> bool throws never` | still expects type arguments | | `generic_params(self) -> GenericParam[] throws never` | names + count, declaration order | | `specialize(self, args: type[]) -> Type throws CompilationError` | arity + bounds checked | | `get<F>(self) -> F? throws CompilationError` | the callable, through an `F` contract | `Package.functions()` now lists **every** declared function, generics included. ## Why the listing changed The omission was never a decision: `functions()` `filter_map`ped over `function_type`, which returned `None` whenever `callable_signature` failed — which is exactly what an unspecialized generic does (`TyTemplate::substitute` hits `TypeArgRefOutOfRange`, and `.ok()` erases it). "Listed but not extractable" already existed on canary for generic companions since BoundaryML#4501. This PR makes both states first-class and actionable instead of a dead end. ## How it works A reflection kind view *is* the `Object::Type` value (`as_type` returns the receiver), so a descriptor has to be a `type` value that also remembers its callable. Two additive, provenance-only payload fields: - **`TypeValue.callable: HeapPtr`** — the `Object::GenericFunction` a descriptor was reflected from, null everywhere else. Outside the identity tuple: `==`/`Hash` stay mint-only, so two descriptors of equal type remain equal type values. GC traces it exactly like `owner`. - **`GenericFunction.exact_type_values: Option<Box<[Option<TypeValue>]>>`** (`#[borsh(skip)]`, `None` for every compile-time instantiation, so pooled interned objects stay byte-identical) — the exact `type` values behind `type_args`. `execute_call_from_locals_offset` seeds the callee's `FrameTypeMetadata` from it, which is how `LoadType` hands the body's `type.of<T>()` back the caller's own minted value with its `DynTypeDefs` overlay attached. Without that lane the specialized `$render_prompt` companion would render a bare unresolvable name instead of the runtime class's schema. Everything else is assembly of parts that already existed: - **arity/genericity** — `type_args.len() < generic_param_bounds.len()`, the same question `unspecialized_generic_callable_name` asks (`vm.rs:2636`). - **bounds** — the proof `validate_runtime_generic_bounds` runs before entering a runtime-checked generic call: substitute the bound's `args`/`assoc` against the completed frame, then `ImplResolver::type_implements`. Rooted at the *supplied value's* dynamic world (`for_value`) so a runtime-minted type's impls are visible, and reported as a typed diagnostic instead of a bare "mismatched types". `baml.AnyClass` keeps its BoundaryML#4493 carve-out for free. - **`specialize`** — build a `GenericFunction` with the completed `type_args` plus the exact values; `callable_signature` then reconstructs. Specialize ≈ "make `callable_signature` succeed". - **`get<F>`** — `Package.get_function`'s contract check, factored into `check_function_contract` and shared verbatim. ## Contract changes to existing pins Each of these is a deliberate change to something previously pinned: 1. **`Package.functions()` lists unspecialized generics.** `function_listing_omits_unspecialized_generics` → `function_listing_includes_unspecialized_generics`, now also asserting `is_generic()` on the generic entry and its absence on the concrete one. The stdlib docstring's "unspecialized generic functions are omitted" claim is deleted. 2. **`function.Type.params()` / `return_type()` gained a throws channel** (`throws never` → `throws baml.reflect.errors.CompilationError`). An unspecialized generic descriptor has no realized function type to decompose; reading one was an `unreachable!` before it was reachable, and is now E0165. `type_kinds.rs`'s `read_views` helper declares the channel accordingly. 3. **E0165's two messages changed.** Both said reflection "cannot supply type arguments yet". It can now, so both name the route that works: `Package.functions()` → `specialize`. Extraction *by name* is still refused — a name lookup has nowhere to put type arguments — so `unspecialized_generic_get_function_reports_reflection_limit` and the four `reflect_call_any` message pins keep their shape and take the new text. `generic_function_companion_extraction_reports_reflection_limit` is unchanged in behaviour; its doc comment now points at the route that does work. 4. **New E0169 `ReflectSpecializationFailed`**, appended at the end of `DiagnosticId` (borsh discriminants are declaration-ordered), with six shared factories and their oracle rows in `runtime_type.rs`'s message table: arity mismatch, bound violation, not-generic, already-specialized, not-a-descriptor, and the unreconstructible-signature backstop. (E0167 went to BoundaryML#4498's always-constant-condition lint and E0168 to BoundaryML#4518's escaping-`unreflect` diagnostic while this branch was open; E0169 is the next free code at the rebase head.) ## Review round **GC edges are structural now (blocker).** `TypeValue` carries three heap pointers — its owning package, its definition overlay, and (new here) a descriptor's callable — and six sites walked that set by hand: the collector's major/forwarding/young arms, a frame's exact type arguments, the pending-call lane, and the `runtime_type` provenance on classes and enums. Adding a field meant editing all six, and missing one leaves a dangling pointer that `get_object`'s unchecked deref turns into UB rather than a panic — which is exactly what the first cut of this PR did. The walk now lives on the payload as `TypeValue::gc_edges()` / `forward_gc_edges()` (with the same pair on `DynTypeDefs` and `RuntimeTypeProvenance`, and a `young_edges` filter for the minor-collection arms), and every site calls it. The six-copy pattern is gone, so the next pointer-bearing field cannot repeat this. Two pre-existing gaps fell out: a runtime class field's type value never had its `owner` forwarded, and the class/enum provenance arms duplicated the same walk a third time. Covered by a unit test that roots and forwards a callable-bearing frame value, plus two BAML tests that collect between every step — one holding a descriptor across collections and then specializing/extracting/calling it, one specializing with a runtime-minted class and reading `type.of<T>()` back out of the callee after a collection. **Bounds resolve in the descriptor's world, not the caller's.** `lookup_interface` goes through `package_for_type`, which roots at the *executing frame's* runtime package. A bound declared inside a `Package.compile`d package is `Local` to that package, so proving it from a host call site found no interface, no rules, and rejected every argument — including conforming ones. `ImplResolver` now resolves the interface name against its `root_package` first and falls back to the lexical lookup (the name-resolution half of what `for_package` already did for rules), and `specialize` roots at the descriptor's package. The fallback matters: a goal can equally name an interface the inspected package *borrowed* from a mounted dependency, which is local to that dependency and only resolvable the lexical way — rooting alone broke `scenario_6`'s `PlanThenAct implements app.AgentAction`. Pinned by a test that compiles a package declaring the interface, a conforming class, and a non-conforming one: before the fix the *conforming* type was rejected. **Exact values are positional, not structural.** `params()`/`return_type()` matched the supplied values against the reconstructed types by structural equality, so a parameter the author wrote as a concrete type could be handed the caller's type argument whenever the two happened to coincide. The mapping is now read off the callable's own `TyTemplate`s — a position reports an exact value only when it is written as exactly that type parameter (`TyTemplate::TypeArgRef`); a nested occurrence (`T[]`) decomposes normally and keeps the overlay. Pinned by a test whose second parameter is declared as the very class supplied for `T`. **Also:** re-specializing an already-bound descriptor gets its own message (telling the caller it "is not generic" pointed at the wrong mistake); a fully supplied frame that still fails to reconstruct now throws instead of silently producing an `unknown` descriptor that denies being generic; the call hot path reads a `GenericFunction`'s two carried lanes from one deref; and `is_generic` no longer allocates a name and an argument vector to answer an arity question. ## Notes - A descriptor is still a `type` value, so descriptor **equality is type equality** — mint-only, and a specialization's mint is the static digest of its reconstructed function type. Two descriptors specialized from different runtime classes therefore compare equal when their signatures do not mention the type parameter (a `$render_prompt` companion is exactly that shape), even though their `return_type()`s differ. That is the BEP-066 rule working as designed — the descriptor denotes a function type, not an instantiation — but it is worth knowing before anyone keys a cache on one. - The arity message is phrased against the parameters *still* awaiting arguments. Specialization is all-at-once today, so that is always the full count; if partial specialization ever lands, the message already says the right thing. ## Deferred - **Bounds in `generic_params()`.** A bound's args are `TyTemplate`s over the callee's own frame, so `T extends Comparable<T>` has no `type` value to report and every workaround is a policy choice (drop silently / substitute `unknown` / render a string / introduce a `Bound` row). Shipped names + count; the ruling is written up separately. `specialize` enforces every bound regardless. - **Static sugar `specialize<T1, …>()`.** Did not fall out cheaply — it needs a turbofish-to-`type.of<T>()` desugaring at the call site rather than a native. - **Family specialize.** Companions are specialized individually, as ratified (`GenericList` and `GenericList$render_prompt` are separate entries). ## Tests New `crates/baml_tests/tests/reflect_specialize.rs`, 13 cases: the item-3 flow end to end with a runtime-minted type (asserting the rendered prompt carries the runtime class's fields), the same shape with a static type, the `is_generic` truth table over all four cells, `generic_params` names/count, specialized signature readback, mint identity on both the descriptor and the callable side, arity mismatch, an interface-bound violation, an `AnyClass`-bound violation, specialize-on-non-generic, the unspecialized signature read, a non-descriptor function type, and contract enforcement on extraction. ## Snapshot churn Eight files — **6 modified, 1 added, 1 deleted** — every one a consequence of adding one class and four methods to the stdlib: 1. `baml_cli__…__describe_package_functions_documents_unspecialized_generic_omission.snap` — **deleted with its test.** It existed to pin the omission contract in `baml describe`, and that contract is gone. Replaced by `…__describe_package_functions_documents_the_generic_listing_contract.snap`, asserting the new docstring instead. 2. `baml_cli__…__render_builtin_package_listing.snap` — one added row, `class baml.reflect.function.GenericParam`, plus the line-number shifts in `reflect.baml` from the docstring edits. 3. `baml_tests__compiler2_tir__phase5__snapshot_baml_package_items.snap` — `baml.reflect.function` gains `class GenericParam { methods: [] }`, and `class Type`'s method list gains `is_generic, generic_params, specialize, get`. 4-6. `__baml_std__` `03_ppir`, `04_5_mir`, `06_codegen` — the same class (with its generated `GenericParam$stream` companion) and the same four builtin methods, at each stage. `05_diagnostics` is unchanged: the stdlib still compiles clean. 7-8. `bytecode_format__bytecode_display_expanded{,_unoptimized}` — global slot indices shift by exactly +4 (`call 917` → `call 921` and so on), the four new builtin functions in the global table. No instruction changes. Regenerated after the rebase rather than hand-merged, since the base numbers moved too. The reflection test suites themselves are `assert_eq!` on engine values, so they contribute nothing here. <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit * **New Features** * Added reflection support for generic functions, including parameter inspection, type specialization, signature access, and callable retrieval. * Generic functions and generated companions now appear in package function listings. * Added validation for specialization arguments, including count and type-bound checks. * Expanded truthiness behavior for the `!` operator beyond boolean values. * **Bug Fixes** * Improved reflection errors and guidance for incomplete, invalid, or unavailable generic signatures. * Improved runtime type diagnostics with clearer messages and suggested corrections. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
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Summary
x?.m<T>()compiled clean and died at runtime withwhile the equivalent
if let/ let-else spelling worked. Found during #4493 onthe
baml.AnyClasssurface (value.get_field(name)?.read<T>()).The optional chain was dropping the call's type arguments. This lowers
x?.m(...)as the guarded method call it is, so?.decides whether thecall happens and never how it is made.
Root cause
baml_compiler2_mir::lower::lower_callrecognizes a method call by its calleeshape:
AstExpr::MemberAccess(x.m) orAstExpr::Path(x.mwritten as apath). An
AstExpr::OptionalMemberAccesscallee matched neither, so it fellthrough to the final "the callee is an opaque callable value" branch
(
lower.rs:8504on canary):MakeBoundMethodfor the receiver, thenTerminator::Callwith a non-constant callee.baml_compiler2_emit::emit(emit.rs:2311) lowers a non-constant callee toInstruction::CallIndirect— which has nontypeargsfield. So thentypeargsMIR computed was silently discarded. Verified by instrumenting
lower_call:the
?.call site really does computentypeargs=1and hand it to an indirectcall. The
LoadTypeoperands were pushed and then stranded below the calleeframe (a leaked operand-stack slot per call), and the callee frame was seeded
only with whatever the
BoundMethodhad curried — the receiver's class-levelargs, and nothing else.
That last detail explains the two shapes of the failure:
[]slot 0 but the frame has 0 type args[class T]slot 1 but the frame has 1 type argsBlast radius (measured on canary, before the fix)
Broken:
x?.m<T>()— explicit method type argsx?.m(v)— type args inferred at the call siteiface?.m<T>()andconcrete?.m<T>()wheremcomes from animplementsblockBox<int>?.both<U>()— class args present, method args missing (slot shift)a?.b()?.c<T>()— chainedvalue.get_field(name)?.read<T>()— the reported shapeAlready working, and still working:
x?.m()with no type args anywhereBox<int>?.describe()— class args only (theBoundMethodcurried these)The stdlib already carries a workaround for this bug class —
baml_std/ai/ns_clients/clients.baml:219: "?.method()on an interface-typedoptional trips a VM bug; if-let is the reliable form." Left in place here (out
of scope); it can be simplified as a follow-up.
Fix
lower_callnow diverts anOptionalMemberAccesscallee tolower_optional_method_call, which emits the null test (joining the enclosingOptionalChain's shared null exit, exactly likelower_optional_calldoes) andthen re-enters the ordinary call lowering with the callee viewed as a plain
MemberAccess. The callee's expression id is unchanged, so every TIR lookup— resolution, call plan, receiver type — still keys on the node the type
checker recorded.
Past the guard the receiver is non-null, so the receiver type narrows
(
T | null→T) for the three lookups that read it: interface dispatch, uniondispatch, and the receiver's class-level type-arg prefix. That is the same
narrowing
dispatch_target_for_member_accessalready applied tox?.field;try_lower_interface_dispatchnow shares that helper outright. Without thenarrowing, dispatch declines on the
Class<..> | nullunion and the classprefix comes back empty, shifting every De Bruijn slot the method's own args
occupy.
Net effect:
x?.m<T>()emits exactly whatx.m<T>()emits — a directCall/VirtualCallwith the type args leading — under a null branch. Thestranded operand-stack slot goes away with it.
Tests
New
crates/baml_tests/baml_src/ns_optional_chain_type_args/runtime-outputsuite (10
testblocks), each pairing the optional spelling with thenon-optional one it must agree with: explicit type args vs. let-else, null
receiver short-circuit, inferred type args, class-only args, class + method args
(slot order), interface and concrete-receiver interface methods, the chained
form with both a present and a null receiver, a non-generic
?.negativecontrol, and the
get_field(name)?.read<T>()reflection shape — including thata type argument the value does not fit is still a
baml.errors.TypeMismatch,not a frame-layout failure.
Not in scope
Two adjacent pre-existing bugs, unchanged by this PR and not type-arg related:
?.evaluates its receiver twice.get(c, "yes")?.rawcallsgettwice — once for the null test, once for the access. True of
x?.fieldoncanary as well; this PR keeps the count at two.
x?.to_string()ICEs (MIR failed to resolve field access .to_string against class definition ...). Theto_string/to_json/from_jsonsugarfallbacks match on
MemberAccess/Pathonly (is_sugar_callee), so theynever fire for an optional-chained receiver.
Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
whileloops without reachablebreakstatements are now recognized as diverging, improvinglet … elseflow analysis.Breaking Changes
Field.read<T>()toField.value<T>().Bug Fixes