Per comments in https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/12269, "module
global" is kind of long, and arguably redundant.
I tried just using "module" but there were too many cases where I felt
this was ambiguous. I like the way "global" works out better, though it
does require an understanding that in Python "global" generally means
"module global" not "globally global" (though in a sense module globals
are also globally global since modules are singletons).
Improve semantic index tests with better assertions than just `.len()`,
and re-add use-definition test that was commented out in the switch to
Salsa initially.
Implements definition-level type inference, with basic control flow
(only if statements and if expressions so far) in Salsa.
There are a couple key ideas here:
1) We can do type inference queries at any of three region
granularities: an entire scope, a single definition, or a single
expression. These are represented by the `InferenceRegion` enum, and the
entry points are the salsa queries `infer_scope_types`,
`infer_definition_types`, and `infer_expression_types`. Generally
per-scope will be used for scopes that we are directly checking and
per-definition will be used anytime we are looking up symbol types from
another module/scope. Per-expression should be uncommon: used only for
the RHS of an unpacking or multi-target assignment (to avoid
re-inferring the RHS once per symbol defined in the assignment) and for
test nodes in type narrowing (e.g. the `test` of an `If` node). All
three queries return a `TypeInference` with a map of types for all
definitions and expressions within their region. If you do e.g.
scope-level inference, when it hits a definition, or an
independently-inferable expression, it should use the relevant query
(which may already be cached) to get all types within the smaller
region. This avoids double-inferring smaller regions, even though larger
regions encompass smaller ones.
2) Instead of building a control-flow graph and lazily traversing it to
find definitions which reach a use of a name (which is O(n^2) in the
worst case), instead semantic indexing builds a use-def map, where every
use of a name knows which definitions can reach that use. We also no
longer track all definitions of a symbol in the symbol itself; instead
the use-def map also records which defs remain visible at the end of the
scope, and considers these the publicly-visible definitions of the
symbol (see below).
Major items left as TODOs in this PR, to be done in follow-up PRs:
1) Free/global references aren't supported yet (only lookup based on
definitions in current scope), which means the override-check example
doesn't currently work. This is the first thing I'll fix as follow-up to
this PR.
2) Control flow outside of if statements and expressions.
3) Type narrowing.
There are also some smaller relevant changes here:
1) Eliminate `Option` in the return type of member lookups; instead
always return `Type::Unbound` for a name we can't find. Also use
`Type::Unbound` for modules we can't resolve (not 100% sure about this
one yet.)
2) Eliminate the use of the terms "public" and "root" to refer to
module-global scope or symbols. Instead consistently use the term
"module-global". It's longer, but it's the clearest, and the most
consistent with typical Python terminology. In particular I don't like
"public" for this use because it has other implications around author
intent (is an underscore-prefixed module-global symbol "public"?). And
"root" is just not commonly used for this in Python.
3) Eliminate the `PublicSymbol` Salsa ingredient. Many non-module-global
symbols can also be seen from other scopes (e.g. by a free var in a
nested scope, or by class attribute access), and thus need to have a
"public type" (that is, the type not as seen from a particular use in
the control flow of the same scope, but the type as seen from some other
scope.) So all symbols need to have a "public type" (here I want to keep
the use of the term "public", unless someone has a better term to
suggest -- since it's "public type of a symbol" and not "public symbol"
the confusion with e.g. initial underscores is less of an issue.) At
least initially, I would like to try not having special handling for
module-global symbols vs other symbols.
4) Switch to using "definitions that reach end of scope" rather than
"all definitions" in determining the public type of a symbol. I'm
convinced that in general this is the right way to go. We may want to
refine this further in future for some free-variable cases, but it can
be changed purely by making changes to the building of the use-def map
(the `public_definitions` index in it), without affecting any other
code. One consequence of combining this with no control-flow support
(just last-definition-wins) is that some inference tests now give more
wrong-looking results; I left TODO comments on these tests to fix them
when control flow is added.
And some potential areas for consideration in the future:
1) Should `symbol_ty` be a Salsa query? This would require making all
symbols a Salsa ingredient, and tracking even more dependencies. But it
would save some repeated reconstruction of unions, for symbols with
multiple public definitions. For now I'm not making it a query, but open
to changing this in future with actual perf evidence that it's better.
