This PR makes it possible to verify loops over iterators. It provides
MPL spec lemmas about `for` loops over pure iterators. It also provides
spec lemmas that rewrite loops over `mapM`, `filterMapM` or `filterM`
iterator combinators into loops over their base iterator.
This PR moves many constants of the iterator API from `Std.Iterators` to
the `Std` namespace in order to make them more convenient to use. These
constants include, but are not limited to, `Iter`, `IterM` and
`IteratorLoop`. This is a breaking change. If something breaks, try
adding `open Std` in order to make these constants available again. If
some constants in the `Std.Iterators` namespace cannot be found, they
can be found directly in `Std` now.
This PR introduces slices of lists that are available via slice notation
(e.g., `xs[1...5]`).
* Moved the `take` combinator and the `List` iterator producer to
`Init`.
* Introduced a `toTake` combinator: `it.toTake` behaves like `it`, but
it has the same type as `it.take n`. There is a constant cost per
iteration compared to `it` itself.
* Introduced `List` slices. Their iterators are defined as
`suffixList.iter.take n` for upper-bounded slices and
`suffixList.iter.toTake` for unbounded ones.
Performance characteristics of using the slice `list[a...b]`:
* when creating it: `O(a)`
* every iterator step: `O(1)`
* `toList`: `O(b - a + 1)` (given that a <= b)
Because the slice only stores a suffix of `xs` internally, two slices
can be equal even though the underlying lists differ in an irrelevant
prefix. Because the `stop` field is allowed to be beyond the list's
upper bound, the slices `[1][0...1]` and `[1][0...2]` are not equal,
even though they effectively cover the same range of the same list.
Improving this would require us to call `List.length` when building the
slice, which would iterate through the whole list.
This PR introduces a no-op version of `Shrink`, a type that should allow
shrinking small types into smaller universes given a proof that the type
is small enough, and uses it in the iterator library. Because this type
would require special compiler support, the current version is just a
wrapper around the inner type so that the wrapper is equivalent, but not
definitionally equivalent.
While `Shrink` is unable to shrink universes right now, but introducing
it now will allow us to generalize the universes in the iterator library
with fewer breaking changes as soon as an actual `Shrink` is possible.
This PR moves parts of the iterator library from `Std` to `Init`. The
reason is that the polymorphic range API must be in `Init` and it
depends on the iterators.
This PR provides the means to reason about "equivalent" iterators.
Simply speaking, two iterators are equivalent if they behave the same as
long as consumers do not introspect their states.
This PR provides array iterators (`Array.iter(M)`,
`Array.iterFromIdx(M)`), infinite iterators produced by a step function
(`Iter.repeat`), and a `ForM` instance for finite iterators that is
implemented in terms of `ForIn`.
