## Summary
This PR includes a behavioral change to how we infer types for public
uses of symbols within a module. Where we would previously use the type
that a use at the end of the scope would see, we now consider all
reachable bindings and union the results:
```py
x = None
def f():
reveal_type(x) # previously `Unknown | Literal[1]`, now `Unknown | None | Literal[1]`
f()
x = 1
f()
```
This helps especially in cases where the the end of the scope is not
reachable:
```py
def outer(x: int):
def inner():
reveal_type(x) # previously `Unknown`, now `int`
raise ValueError
```
This PR also proposes to skip the boundness analysis of public uses.
This is consistent with the "all reachable bindings" strategy, because
the implicit `x = <unbound>` binding is also always reachable, and we
would have to emit "possibly-unresolved" diagnostics for every public
use otherwise. Changing this behavior allows common use-cases like the
following to type check without any errors:
```py
def outer(flag: bool):
if flag:
x = 1
def inner():
print(x) # previously: possibly-unresolved-reference, now: no error
```
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/210
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/607
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/699
## Follow up
It is now possible to resolve the following TODO, but I would like to do
that as a follow-up, because it requires some changes to how we treat
implicit attribute assignments, which could result in ecosystem changes
that I'd like to see separately.
315fb0f3da/crates/ty_python_semantic/src/semantic_index/builder.rs (L1095-L1117)
## Ecosystem analysis
[**Full report**](https://shark.fish/diff-public-types.html)
* This change obviously removes a lot of `possibly-unresolved-reference`
diagnostics (7818) because we do not analyze boundness for public uses
of symbols inside modules anymore.
* As the primary goal here, this change also removes a lot of
false-positive `unresolved-reference` diagnostics (231) in scenarios
like this:
```py
def _(flag: bool):
if flag:
x = 1
def inner():
x
raise
```
* This change also introduces some new false positives for cases like:
```py
def _():
x = None
x = "test"
def inner():
x.upper() # Attribute `upper` on type `Unknown | None | Literal["test"]`
is possibly unbound
```
We have test cases for these situations and it's plausible that we can
improve this in a follow-up.
## Test Plan
New Markdown tests
## Summary
* Completely removes the concept of visibility constraints. Reachability
constraints are now used to model the static visibility of bindings and
declarations. Reachability constraints are *much* easier to reason about
/ work with, since they are applied at the beginning of a branch, and
not applied retroactively. Removing the duplication between visibility
and reachability constraints also leads to major code simplifications
[^1]. For an overview of how the new constraint system works, see the
updated doc comment in `reachability_constraints.rs`.
* Fixes a [control-flow modeling bug
(panic)](https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/365) involving `break`
statements in loops
* Fixes a [bug where](https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/624) where
`elif` branches would have wrong reachability constraints
* Fixes a [bug where](https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/648) code
after infinite loops would not be considered unreachble
* Fixes a panic on the `pywin32` ecosystem project, which we should be
able to move to `good.txt` once this has been merged.
* Removes some false positives in unreachable code because we infer
`Never` more often, due to the fact that reachability constraints now
apply retroactively to *all* active bindings, not just to bindings
inside a branch.
* As one example, this removes the `division-by-zero` diagnostic from
https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/443 because we now infer `Never`
for the divisor.
* Supersedes and includes similar test changes as
https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/18392
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/365
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/624
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/642
closes https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/648
## Benchmarks
Benchmarks on black, pandas, and sympy showed that this is neither a
performance improvement, nor a regression.
## Test Plan
Regression tests for:
- [x] https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/365
- [x] https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/624
- [x] https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/642
- [x] https://github.com/astral-sh/ty/issues/648
[^1]: I'm afraid this is something that @carljm advocated for since the
beginning, and I'm not sure anymore why we have never seriously tried
this before. So I suggest we do *not* attempt to do a historical deep
dive to find out exactly why this ever became so complicated, and just
enjoy the fact that we eventually arrived here.
---------
Co-authored-by: Carl Meyer <carl@astral.sh>
