http:// soc.jayunit.net Ruby Type Inference & Code Completion for RDT Google Summer of Code Jason Morrison
Summer of Code 2006: Ruby Type Inference & Code Completion for RDT
Dec 23, 2014
A discussion of my contributions to the Ruby Development Tool regarding type inference for the purpose of code completion. Given at RubyConf 2006, work done for Google Summer of Code 2006.
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Ruby Type Inference &
Code Completion for RDTGoogle Summer of Code
Jason Morrison
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Overview
• Project Goals• Why Eclipse and Java?• Completion Features• Type Inference Algorithm• Issues• The Future
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Project Goals
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Project Goals
• Code completion for RDT– I’m lazy; Ruby is great and succinct, but…– And, it helps other developers!
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Project Goals
• Ruby type inference– It’s fun! (Read: I knew very little about it)– Alternative implementation performance
• Priming the cache for polymorphic dispatch
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Why Eclipse and Java?
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“Eclipse is too big!”
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“It’s bloated! :P”
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Not targeting that guy
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Convert the natives!
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Completion Features
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Completion Features
• Scoped object completion• Method completion
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Scoped Object Completion
• Locals, Block Locals• @, @@, $• Pre-defined variables
– $_, $:, $”, $0 and friends
• Available classes
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Scoped Object Completion
• Tricky spots:– Open classes– No explicit declaration– set_instance_var and friends
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Method Completion
• Invocations are message passing• Type is a bag of possible methods
– Selector– [Args]– [Confidence]
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Method Completion
• Many scoping and definition syntaxes:– class Foo;def method;…– instance_eval…– class_eval…– define_method…– include FooModule– Object#extend(module)– class << self; def method;…– method_missing…
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Type Inference Algorithm
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What is Type Inference?
• Determine the type of an expression
• Static analysis• Type versus Class• Not always definitive
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Type Inference Algorithm
• Inspired by DDP by Lex Spoon:– Demand-Driven Analysis with Goal
Pruning
• Type flow analysis• Unions types over contours
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DDP Structure
• Posts goals• Goals have sub-goals• Answered by judgements• Prunes low value goals
– High cost– Low impact on high level goals
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DDP Goals
• 1. Type goal– What is the type of x?
• 2. Transitive flow– Where can objects flow from x?
• 3. Simple flow– Where can objects flow from x in one step?
• 4. Sender– What statements invoke FooClass#bar?
• 5. Responder– What methods are invoked by "foo.bar"?
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DataFlowTypeInferrer
• infer(String source, int offset)• findSenders(String scope, String
selector)• findMethodDef(String scope, String
selector)
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DataFlowTypeInferrer
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Issues
• Eval• Data-bound flow control
– return ( rand() > 0.5 ) ? String.new : Array.new
• Metaprogramming• Collections• Builtins
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The Future
• Statistical type inference• Type metadata (collections)• Rails tie-in
– AR querying for magic find– Instance vars in View templates
• TI for implementation optimizations
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Thanks!
• Chris Williams, project mentor!• Google Summer of Code• Everyone on the RDT and JRuby teams• All the folks at RubyCentral
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