## Summary
This PR updates the entire parser stack in multiple ways:
### Make the lexer lazy
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11244
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11473
Previously, Ruff's lexer would act as an iterator. The parser would
collect all the tokens in a vector first and then process the tokens to
create the syntax tree.
The first task in this project is to update the entire parsing flow to
make the lexer lazy. This includes the `Lexer`, `TokenSource`, and
`Parser`. For context, the `TokenSource` is a wrapper around the `Lexer`
to filter out the trivia tokens[^1]. Now, the parser will ask the token
source to get the next token and only then the lexer will continue and
emit the token. This means that the lexer needs to be aware of the
"current" token. When the `next_token` is called, the current token will
be updated with the newly lexed token.
The main motivation to make the lexer lazy is to allow re-lexing a token
in a different context. This is going to be really useful to make the
parser error resilience. For example, currently the emitted tokens
remains the same even if the parser can recover from an unclosed
parenthesis. This is important because the lexer emits a
`NonLogicalNewline` in parenthesized context while a normal `Newline` in
non-parenthesized context. This different kinds of newline is also used
to emit the indentation tokens which is important for the parser as it's
used to determine the start and end of a block.
Additionally, this allows us to implement the following functionalities:
1. Checkpoint - rewind infrastructure: The idea here is to create a
checkpoint and continue lexing. At a later point, this checkpoint can be
used to rewind the lexer back to the provided checkpoint.
2. Remove the `SoftKeywordTransformer` and instead use lookahead or
speculative parsing to determine whether a soft keyword is a keyword or
an identifier
3. Remove the `Tok` enum. The `Tok` enum represents the tokens emitted
by the lexer but it contains owned data which makes it expensive to
clone. The new `TokenKind` enum just represents the type of token which
is very cheap.
This brings up a question as to how will the parser get the owned value
which was stored on `Tok`. This will be solved by introducing a new
`TokenValue` enum which only contains a subset of token kinds which has
the owned value. This is stored on the lexer and is requested by the
parser when it wants to process the data. For example:
8196720f80/crates/ruff_python_parser/src/parser/expression.rs (L1260-L1262)
[^1]: Trivia tokens are `NonLogicalNewline` and `Comment`
### Remove `SoftKeywordTransformer`
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11441
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11459
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11442
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11443
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11474
For context,
https://github.com/RustPython/RustPython/pull/4519/files#diff-5de40045e78e794aa5ab0b8aacf531aa477daf826d31ca129467703855408220
added support for soft keywords in the parser which uses infinite
lookahead to classify a soft keyword as a keyword or an identifier. This
is a brilliant idea as it basically wraps the existing Lexer and works
on top of it which means that the logic for lexing and re-lexing a soft
keyword remains separate. The change here is to remove
`SoftKeywordTransformer` and let the parser determine this based on
context, lookahead and speculative parsing.
* **Context:** The transformer needs to know the position of the lexer
between it being at a statement position or a simple statement position.
This is because a `match` token starts a compound statement while a
`type` token starts a simple statement. **The parser already knows
this.**
* **Lookahead:** Now that the parser knows the context it can perform
lookahead of up to two tokens to classify the soft keyword. The logic
for this is mentioned in the PR implementing it for `type` and `match
soft keyword.
* **Speculative parsing:** This is where the checkpoint - rewind
infrastructure helps. For `match` soft keyword, there are certain cases
for which we can't classify based on lookahead. The idea here is to
create a checkpoint and keep parsing. Based on whether the parsing was
successful and what tokens are ahead we can classify the remaining
cases. Refer to #11443 for more details.
If the soft keyword is being parsed in an identifier context, it'll be
converted to an identifier and the emitted token will be updated as
well. Refer
8196720f80/crates/ruff_python_parser/src/parser/expression.rs (L487-L491).
The `case` soft keyword doesn't require any special handling because
it'll be a keyword only in the context of a match statement.
### Update the parser API
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11494
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11505
Now that the lexer is in sync with the parser, and the parser helps to
determine whether a soft keyword is a keyword or an identifier, the
lexer cannot be used on its own. The reason being that it's not
sensitive to the context (which is correct). This means that the parser
API needs to be updated to not allow any access to the lexer.
Previously, there were multiple ways to parse the source code:
1. Passing the source code itself
2. Or, passing the tokens
Now that the lexer and parser are working together, the API
corresponding to (2) cannot exists. The final API is mentioned in this
PR description: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11494.
### Refactor the downstream tools (linter and formatter)
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11511
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11515
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11529
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11562
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11592
And, the final set of changes involves updating all references of the
lexer and `Tok` enum. This was done in two-parts:
1. Update all the references in a way that doesn't require any changes
from this PR i.e., it can be done independently
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11402
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11406
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11418
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11419
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11420
* https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11424
2. Update all the remaining references to use the changes made in this
PR
For (2), there were various strategies used:
1. Introduce a new `Tokens` struct which wraps the token vector and add
methods to query a certain subset of tokens. These includes:
1. `up_to_first_unknown` which replaces the `tokenize` function
2. `in_range` and `after` which replaces the `lex_starts_at` function
where the former returns the tokens within the given range while the
latter returns all the tokens after the given offset
2. Introduce a new `TokenFlags` which is a set of flags to query certain
information from a token. Currently, this information is only limited to
any string type token but can be expanded to include other information
in the future as needed. https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/11578
3. Move the `CommentRanges` to the parsed output because this
information is common to both the linter and the formatter. This removes
the need for `tokens_and_ranges` function.
## Test Plan
- [x] Update and verify the test snapshots
- [x] Make sure the entire test suite is passing
- [x] Make sure there are no changes in the ecosystem checks
- [x] Run the fuzzer on the parser
- [x] Run this change on dozens of open-source projects
### Running this change on dozens of open-source projects
Refer to the PR description to get the list of open source projects used
for testing.
Now, the following tests were done between `main` and this branch:
1. Compare the output of `--select=E999` (syntax errors)
2. Compare the output of default rule selection
3. Compare the output of `--select=ALL`
**Conclusion: all output were same**
## What's next?
The next step is to introduce re-lexing logic and update the parser to
feed the recovery information to the lexer so that it can emit the
correct token. This moves us one step closer to having error resilience
in the parser and provides Ruff the possibility to lint even if the
source code contains syntax errors.
## Summary
This PR renames `AnyStringKind` to `AnyStringFlags` and `AnyStringFlags`
to `AnyStringFlagsInner`.
The main motivation is to have consistent usage of "kind" and "flags".
For each string kind, it's "flags" like `StringLiteralFlags`,
`BytesLiteralFlags`, and `FStringFlags` but it was `AnyStringKind` for
the "any" variant.
## Summary
Given:
```python
F"{"ڤ
```
We try to locate the "unclosed left brace" error by subtracting the
quote size from the lexer offset -- so we subtract 1 from the end of the
source, which puts us in the middle of a Unicode character. I don't
think we should try to adjust the offset in this way, since there can be
content _after_ the quote. For example, with the advent of PEP 701, this
string could reasonably be fixed as:
```python
F"{"ڤ"}"
````
Closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/9379.
This sets `lto = "thin"` instead of using "fat" LTO, and sets
`codegen-units = 16`. These are the defaults for Cargo's `release`
profile, and I think it may give us faster iteration times, especially
when benchmarking. The point of this PR is to see what kind of impact
this has on benchmarks. It is expected that benchmarks may regress to
some extent.
I did some quick ad hoc experiments to quantify this change in compile
times. Namely, I ran:
cargo build --profile release -p ruff_cli
Then I ran
touch crates/ruff_python_formatter/src/expression/string/docstring.rs
(because that's where i've been working lately) and re-ran
cargo build --profile release -p ruff_cli
This last command is what I timed, since it reflects how much time one
has to wait between making a change and getting a compiled artifact.
Here are my results:
* With status quo `release` profile, build takes 77s
* with `release` but `lto = "thin"`, build takes 41s
* with `release`, but `lto = false`, build takes 19s
* with `release`, but `lto = false` **and** `codegen-units = 16`, build
takes 7s
* with `release`, but `lto = "thin"` **and** `codegen-units = 16`, build
takes 16s (i believe this is the default `release` configuration)
This PR represents the last option. It's not the fastest to compile, but
it's nearly a whole minute faster! The idea is that with `codegen-units
= 16`, we still make use of parallelism, but keep _some_ level of LTO on
to try and re-gain what we lose by increasing the number of codegen
units.
## Summary
This PR adds a new helper method on the `Cursor` called `eat_char2`
which is similar to `eat_char` but accepts 2 characters instead of 1. It'll
`bump` the cursor twice if both characters are found on lookahead.
## Test Plan
`cargo test`
