Diagnose inline unreflect type arguments that escape their call - #4518
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe compiler now rejects inline ChangesRuntime type escape diagnostics
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The PR adds diagnostics that prevent inline runtime type arguments from escaping their call while preserving supported dynamic cases. The change is otherwise supported by the stated test results, but a minor documentation-link fix is still needed for a clean merge. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
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SourceLowering->>SourceLowering: record unreflect argument span
TypeInference->>TypeInference: inspect published return type
TypeInference->>DiagnosticRenderer: materialize RuntimeTypeMustBeNamed
DiagnosticRenderer->>SourceLowering: resolve unreflect argument span
DiagnosticRenderer->>DiagnosticRenderer: build source-preserving rewrite
LSPCheck->>DiagnosticRenderer: render E0168 diagnostic
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BEP-066 ruling (A) for the deferred half of B-1582 item 1: an inline
`unreflect(value)` type argument is legal only while the runtime type stays
out of the expression's published static type.
The parameter an inline `unreflect(...)` introduces is rigid for one call, and
the call site publishes `occurrence_ty` in its place. So the check is an
occurs-check on the callee's declared RESULT type. A result that IS the
parameter (`parse<T>(..) -> T`) stays legal: occurrence-substitution types a
value whose static type erases to `unknown` while the runtime tag rides on the
value, which is the supported dynamic path. One position deeper -
`Wrapper<T>`, `T[]?`, a constructed `Agent<T>`, a class literal - the
occurrence substitutes into a type constructor and the published type asserts
something the value stops satisfying the moment the call returns, which is
what later dispatch re-derives its arguments from.
Two sites. Call results go through `report_runtime_type_escape`, called from
the two recorders that between them cover every `write_call_type_args` road.
Class literals are decided in `lower_object_literal`: their result is `C<..T..>`
by construction, so no signature is needed and the written source is still at
hand for the suggestion. That slot used to be dropped outright, which left an
error-recovery type in the instantiation and reached
`runtime_ty.rs:252 unreachable!("`Error` is not a valid `RuntimeTy`")`; it now
holds its place and the diagnostic fires long before lowering.
E0168 is built by one shared factory with an E-1 oracle row: the headline, a
note on the `unreflect(...)` slot, and a rewrite read back out of the author's
own source rather than reconstructed.
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs`:
- Around line 7255-7267: Update the intra-doc links associated with
runtime_param_escapes_result and report_runtime_type_escape to target
InferenceContext::report_runtime_type_escape instead of the nonexistent InferCtx
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| /// BEP-066 ruling (A): an inline `unreflect(value)` type argument is legal | ||
| /// only while the runtime type stays out of the expression's published | ||
| /// type. The parameter is rigid for this call alone — the call site | ||
| /// publishes `occurrence_ty` in its place — so a result that still | ||
| /// mentions the parameter would be typed by a substitution the value does | ||
| /// not actually satisfy afterwards, and every later dispatch re-derives | ||
| /// the receiver's arguments from that published type. | ||
| /// | ||
| /// The exception, and the reason this is an occurs-check on the RESULT | ||
| /// rather than a ban on the spelling, is a result that IS the parameter | ||
| /// (`parse<T>(..) -> T`): occurrence-substitution then types a VALUE, the | ||
| /// runtime tag rides on the value itself, and nothing static claims more | ||
| /// than `unknown`. That is the supported dynamic path and stays legal. |
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Fix the broken doc-link: InferCtx does not exist.
The doc comment on runtime_param_escapes_result and report_runtime_type_escape links to [`InferCtx::report_runtime_type_escape`]. This file defines InferenceContext, not InferCtx, and no InferCtx alias is visible anywhere in this crate. Rustdoc cannot resolve this intra-doc link.
Rename the link target to InferenceContext::report_runtime_type_escape.
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-/// Does a call-scoped runtime parameter survive into `ret` as more than the
-/// result itself? See [`InferCtx::report_runtime_type_escape`] for why the
-/// bare-parameter result is the one shape that does not escape.
+/// Does a call-scoped runtime parameter survive into `ret` as more than the
+/// result itself? See [`InferenceContext::report_runtime_type_escape`] for why
+/// the bare-parameter result is the one shape that does not escape.
fn runtime_param_escapes_result(ret: &Ty, param: &baml_type::ParamTy) -> bool {Also applies to: 11041-11049
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In `@baml_language/crates/baml_compiler2_hir_ty/src/infer.rs` around lines 7255 -
7267, Update the intra-doc links associated with runtime_param_escapes_result
and report_runtime_type_escape to target
InferenceContext::report_runtime_type_escape instead of the nonexistent InferCtx
symbol, including the second occurrence noted by the review.
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Review round 1 applied, plus one thing the review could not have known about. The code is now E0168, not E0167. #4498 (truthiness, B-1563) landed on canary while this F1 (must-fix) — done. F2 — done. "The panic is gone" now reads "no path reaches that Residuals — added to the PR body, not implemented. All three are conservative-side (they
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- cargo fmt over the four files written without a fmt pass (generate.rs, output_format_non_data.rs, sdkgen leaf.rs/lib.rs) — the pre-commit gate rejects the drift. - canary's #4518 runtime_type_escape suite (merged here) defines its mock ai.Client without `render`, which this branch's Client interface requires — same invisible semantic conflict as B-1582's mock; add the conforming impl. 13/13 pass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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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…undaryML#4530) `unreflect(t)` written inline only lives for one call. BoundaryML#4518 added a clear error when the call's **result** would need the type afterwards. This PR closes the two remaining ways the type can outlive the call: the **error channel** and **optional chains**. ## What you get now **1. Throws.** If the callee's errors carry the type parameter, the inline spelling is refused with the same plain error and the same fix: ```baml class Boom<T> { payload: T } function risky<T>(v: T) -> int { if (v == null) { throw Boom { payload: v } } 0 } let x = risky<unreflect(t)>(1); // error[E0168]: this runtime type must be given a name before it can be used here // = a type created at runtime only lasts for one call when written inline with // `unreflect(...)`, but the error this call can throw would still need it afterwards // = help: name the type first, then use the name: // type Out = unreflect(t); // risky<Out>(1) ``` This works whether the callee declares `throws Boom<T>` or the compiler infers it. Plain `throws T` stays legal, just like plain `-> T` — a caught value under `unknown` is the supported dynamic path. **2. Optional chains.** `s?.m(...)` can come back null, so its type is "whatever `m` returns, or null" — and that wrapper can smuggle the type out: ```baml s?.parse<unreflect(t)>(x) // parse returns T → the result is "T or null" → refused, same error s?.put<unreflect(t)>(1) // put returns bool → nothing carried → stays legal ``` The rule reads the published type, not the punctuation: a `?.` on a receiver that can't actually be null wraps nothing and stays legal. ## Bugs fixed on the way - **The suggested fix used to crash the compiler.** Following the `type Out = ...` advice, with no `throws` clause on your own function, hit an internal compiler abort ("type variable not found in type args"). The block's type parameter was being cleaned out of values and locals when the block ends, but not out of the recorded error facts. Fixed; the rewrite now compiles and runs. - **Internal names no longer leak into messages.** `declared throws is Boom<unknown>, but this function may also throw Boom<Out>` — that `Out` was a compiler-internal name; it now prints `Boom<unknown>`. ## Tests 35 fixtures in `runtime_type_escape.rs`: every refused shape, every accepted shape (including `sap.parse<unreflect(t)>`, erased results, bounds, the lexical form), rendered-message snapshots for both new errors, and "apply the suggestion, it compiles and runs" tests for both the value and the throws case. A runtime test passes a real runtime type through every accepted transport and reads it back.
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Closes the deferred half of B-1582 item 1 (the
STOP.mdat the repo root), implementingruling (A): an inline
unreflect(expr)type argument is legal only while the runtimetype stays out of the expression's published static type.
The rule
unreflect(v)written inline introduces a parameter that is rigid for one call. Thecall site publishes
occurrence_ty(the parameter's first interface bound, orunknown)in its place. So the check is an occurs-check on the callee's declared result type:
-> Tunknown, the runtime tag rides on the value, and nothing asserts more. This issap.parse/Extract$parse<unreflect(t)>— the supported dynamic path, used all over tests and demos.-> Wrapper<unknown>Tis not mentioned.TExtract$render_prompt<unreflect(t)>(..)consumes the type inside the call.-> Wrapper<T>,-> T[]?,Agent<T>.new,Holder<unreflect(t)> { .. }That is the dividing line the brief asked for, stated positively: the bare-parameter result
is the single shape where occurrence-typing describes a value rather than lying about a
constructor.
The carve-out is deliberately exactly one shape deep:
-> Tis legal, anythingcontaining
Tis not. I kept the predicate literal rather than curating a list ofconstructors that are supposedly safe to substitute under — one rule, no boundary to
relitigate per constructor, and the escape hatch is one line of user code. Relaxing it
later is additive; the
-> T?case that sits closest to the line is written up underResiduals.
One consequence worth stating up front: the ticket's repro has two inline slots, and
both are named.
ai.Agent<unreflect(t)>.new(..).run(DynamicOutput@spec<unreflect(t)>())reports twice —
@spec<T>embeds the parameter the same wayAgent<T>does. That matchesthe #4501 scenario, which already writes
DynamicOutput@spec<Out>().Implementation
Two sites, one diagnostic.
infer.rs::report_runtime_type_escape, called from the twoexisting recorders (
record_runtime_dependent_argumentsfor source signatures,record_external_runtime_dependent_argumentsfor mounted ones) that between them coverevery
write_call_type_argsroad. The predicate isinfer.rs::runtime_param_escapes_result: false when the result is the parameter, elsety_mentions_param— the same occurs machinery the runtime-parameter plumbing alreadyuses. No interprocedural analysis.
lower_expr_body.rs::lower_object_literal. A class literal's resultis
C<…T…>by construction, so the answer never depends on a callee signature and thereport is made where the written source is still at hand. The slot used to be dropped
by
collect_constructor_path, which is what left an error-recovery type in theinstantiation and hit
runtime_ty.rs:252unreachable!("Erroris not a validRuntimeTy"). It now holds its place (soinference does not also report a missing type parameter) and the diagnostic fires long
before lowering. No path reaches that
unreachable!any more — it is still live ifcalled directly, but every real entry point (
run,pack,check, runtimePackage.compile) gates on error diagnostics before lowering, andPackage.compilesurfaces this one as a catchable E0168.
The diagnostic (E0168)
Built by one shared factory,
runtime_type::runtime_type_must_be_named, with an E-1 oraclerow in
constructors_own_code_and_complete_message. (This started as E0167; #4498 landedthat code for
ConditionAlwaysConstantwhile this branch was gating, so it rebased ontoE0168 — the next free code, with the same
// E0167 is owned by …marker comment the filealready uses for E0164.)
The rewrite is read back out of the author's own source, not reconstructed:
RuntimeTypeNameRewrite::from_sourcetakes the written expression and the byte range of itsunreflect(...)slot and substitutes. The class-literal site has the CST; the call siteassembles it in
TirDiagnostic::render_with_type_refs, the first point that holds both thefile text and the resolved spans (inference sees arena ids and no source at all — hence the
new
DiagnosticLocation::UnreflectArg { carrier, enclosing }, which carries both spanstogether). A half that would not print cleanly — multi-line, empty, past a length budget —
is dropped rather than guessed at, and the suggestion degrades to
type Out = unreflect(...);.The
unreflect(...)slot needed a span of its own (AstSourceMap::unreflect_arg_spans):the carrier expression's span covers only
t, not the marker and parens.Tests
crates/baml_tests/tests/runtime_type_escape.rs, thirteen cases.Refused: the ticket's verbatim
ai.Agent<unreflect(t)>.new(..).run(DynamicOutput@spec<unreflect(t)>())(both slots);
STOP.md's minimal panic reproHolder<unreflect(t)> { label: "h" }; thestatic-constructor sibling
Holder<unreflect(t)>.new("h");-> Wrapper<T>;-> T[]?.Two rendered snapshots pin headline + note + rewrite together, one per road, because the
code+message assertions would not notice either half degrading: the class-literal report
(span and rewrite from the CST) and the call-site report (span from
DiagnosticLocation::UnreflectArgthroughAstSourceMap, rewrite assembled inrender_with_type_refsfrom the file text).Accepted (each a pin from the brief):
Extract$parse<unreflect(t)>(-> T);Extract$render_prompt<unreflect(t)>(result never mentionsT);-> Wrapper<unknown>;the lexical
type Out = unreflect(t)binding on the very shapes the inline one is refusedfor; and the negative control — a user class named
unreflect, a local binding namedunreflect, and a function called asunreflect(3)(the exactunreflect(shape thetype-argument lookahead keys on).
applying_the_suggestion_compiles_and_runsasserts the refusal and then runs the programE0168 literally spells: it is the #4501 Agent scenario with
type Out = unreflect(..)infront and
Outin the slots — compiles, dispatches throughimplements Runner<Out>, parsesthe reflected output type, returns
Pixel.Not done
The stretch LSP quickfix is skipped.
baml_lsp2_actions::fixeshas no text-edit conceptat all today —
FixKindhas a singleOpenInPlaygroundvariant and noWorkspaceEditpaththrough to the LSP layer — so this would have meant building the codebase's first
diagnostic-driven edit action, which is its own change. The rewrite is already computed and
attached to the diagnostic, so a later quickfix has nothing left to derive.
Residuals — named, not implemented
Three things the ruling's paragraph does not settle. All are conservative-side gaps (they
refuse more, or report less, never accept a lie), so none blocks this PR; flagging them for
a call rather than guessing.
throwsclause is unchecked. The occurs-check reads the declared result only.f<unreflect(t)>() -> int throws Boom<T>publishes exactly the same lying constructor inthe effect channel and is accepted today. The wrinkle that stopped me extending it: a
throwsclause is often inferred rather than written (FunctionSignature::throwswiththrows_declared: false), so the check would start firing on effects the author neverspelled — which is a different conversation from "you wrote this type argument".
-> T?vsx?.m<unreflect(t)>()is asymmetric. A declared-> T?is refused(
Optionalis a constructor, so the parameter occurs), while an optional-chained call toa
-> Tmethod is accepted — and both publishunknown?. The strict side is the safeone and relaxing it later is additive, but the two spellings arriving at the same
published type by different verdicts is worth a deliberate answer.
reports from AST lowering and leaves the slot as an error-recovery type, so
Holder<unreflect(nope)> { .. }reports only E0168 — the "unresolved namenope"appears once the user applies the rewrite. The call road, which does lower its carrier,
reports both at once.
Gate
cargo insta test --test-runner nextest -p baml_tests -p baml_cli -p baml_lsp2_actions -p baml_lsp2_actions_tests -p baml_surface --all-features --unreferenced=reject, pinned1.93.0,
CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0, capsCARGO_BUILD_JOBS=24/NEXTEST_TEST_THREADS=24—3820 passed, 0 failed, 24 skipped, no unreferenced snapshots, no snapshots to review.
cargo fmt --all --checkandcargo clippy --all-targets --all-featuresoverthe touched crates clean. Rebased onto canary after #4498 landed (E-code collision, see
above); the gate below is the post-rebase run. Not enqueued.