Branch: refs/heads/master
Revision: cec4ec0
Author: mppf
Log Message:
Merge pull request #17329 from mppf/document-cast-spec
Update spec to describe cast operator, requirements on other conversions
This PR updates the conversions chapter of the language specification and makes related changes.
For https://github.com/Cray/chapel-private/issues/1751 and https://github.com/Cray/chapel-private/issues/1752.
Follow-up to #15838 #17092 #17146.
Future work:
- It might not be the clearest to describe assignment or
init=between
types as a kind of conversion. Maybe we should just call these
assignment between different types or copy initialization between
different types. - The division in the exposition between subtype conversions, generic
type conversions, and class conversions is not a very satisfying
division and seems to have a lot of overlap. Perhaps the subtype
concept could be described separately, as a concept, and then the
sections can consider conversion to a generic type or class
conversions.
Reviewed by @vasslitvinov - thanks!
Modified Files:
M doc/rst/language/spec/conversions.rst
M doc/rst/language/spec/lexical-structure.rst
M doc/rst/language/spec/procedures.rst
Compare: https://github.com/chapel-lang/chapel/compare/4ec7c20ab323...cec4ec0bc748