more cleanup

src/typeck/base.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { ItemId, Pkg, Resolved, Ty } from "../ast";
+import { GlobalContext } from "../context";
+import { CompilerError, ErrorEmitted } from "../error";
+import { ComplexMap } from "../utils";
+
+export type TypeckCtx = {
+  gcx: GlobalContext;
+  /**
+   * A cache of all item types.
+   * Starts off as undefined, then gets set to null
+   * while computing the type (for cycle detection) and
+   * afterwards, we get the ty.
+   */
+  itemTys: ComplexMap<ItemId, Ty | null>;
+  ast: Pkg<Resolved>;
+};
+
+export function mkTyFn(params: Ty[], returnTy: Ty): Ty {
+  return { kind: "fn", params, returnTy };
+}
+
+export function tyError(cx: TypeckCtx, err: CompilerError): Ty {
+  return {
+    kind: "error",
+    err: emitError(cx, err),
+  };
+}
+
+export function tyErrorFrom(prev: { err: ErrorEmitted }): Ty {
+  return { kind: "error", err: prev.err };
+}
+
+export function emitError(cx: TypeckCtx, err: CompilerError): ErrorEmitted {
+  return cx.gcx.error.emit(err);
+}

src/typeck/expr.ts

@@ -28,14 +28,10 @@ import {
 } from "../ast";
 import { CompilerError, ErrorEmitted, Span, unreachable } from "../error";
 import { printTy } from "../printer";
+import { TypeckCtx, emitError, mkTyFn, tyError, tyErrorFrom } from "./base";
 import { InferContext } from "./infer";
 import {
-  TypeckCtx,
-  emitError,
   lowerAstTy,
-  mkTyFn,
-  tyError,
-  tyErrorFrom,
   typeOfItem,
 } from "./item";
 

src/typeck/index.ts

@@ -17,9 +17,10 @@ import {
 import { GlobalContext } from "../context";
 import { CompilerError, ErrorEmitted, Span } from "../error";
 import { ComplexMap } from "../utils";
+import { emitError } from "./base";
 import { checkBody, exprError } from "./expr";
 import { InferContext } from "./infer";
-import { emitError, typeOfItem } from "./item";
+import { typeOfItem } from "./item";
 
 export function typeck(
   gcx: GlobalContext,

src/typeck/item.ts

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 import {
-  Pkg,
   ItemId,
   Resolved,
   Ty,
@@ -12,41 +11,9 @@ import {
   Type,
   substituteTy,
 } from "../ast";
-import { GlobalContext } from "../context";
-import { CompilerError, ErrorEmitted, Span } from "../error";
+import { CompilerError, Span } from "../error";
 import { printTy } from "../printer";
-import { ComplexMap } from "../utils";
-
-export type TypeckCtx = {
-  gcx: GlobalContext;
-  /**
-   * A cache of all item types.
-   * Starts off as undefined, then gets set to null
-   * while computing the type (for cycle detection) and
-   * afterwards, we get the ty.
-   */
-  itemTys: ComplexMap<ItemId, Ty | null>;
-  ast: Pkg<Resolved>;
-};
-
-export function mkTyFn(params: Ty[], returnTy: Ty): Ty {
-  return { kind: "fn", params, returnTy };
-}
-
-export function tyError(cx: TypeckCtx, err: CompilerError): Ty {
-  return {
-    kind: "error",
-    err: emitError(cx, err),
-  };
-}
-
-export function tyErrorFrom(prev: { err: ErrorEmitted }): Ty {
-  return { kind: "error", err: prev.err };
-}
-
-export function emitError(cx: TypeckCtx, err: CompilerError): ErrorEmitted {
-  return cx.gcx.error.emit(err);
-}
+import { TypeckCtx, tyError, tyErrorFrom } from "./base";
 
 function builtinAsTy(cx: TypeckCtx, name: string, span: Span): Ty {
   switch (name) {
@@ -68,6 +35,10 @@ function builtinAsTy(cx: TypeckCtx, name: string, span: Span): Ty {
   }
 }
 
+/**
+ * Lowers the AST representation of a type into its resolved Ty representation.
+ * Will also validate the type, for example ensuring that generic arguments match up.
+ */
 // TODO: Cleanup, maybe get the ident switch into this function because typeOfItem is unused.
 export function lowerAstTy(cx: TypeckCtx, type: Type<Resolved>): Ty {
   switch (type.kind) {