Blocks, functions, and methods now have the same code for handling
their bodies.
This means that single-line methods work like single-line functions:
they return the result of their expression.
Instead of an instruction that always instantiates an instance,
the "new" is compiled to a method call on the class, followed by a
method call on the (presumably) new instance.
The former lets built-in types like Fn do special stuff instead of
allocating an instance. In particular, it means:
new Fn { ... }
can just return the block argument.
Added ".." and "..." infix operators. Num implements them to
return Range objects. Those in turn implement the iterator
protocol, so now numeric for loops are easy:
for (i in 1..10) { ... }
I also cleaned up the Wren benchmarks to use this.
In the process, I discovered the method_call benchmark really
just showed loop peformance, so I unrolled the loops in all of
the languages to stress method calls.
They are now invoked like "new Foo".
Also, superclass constructors are now much less semantically
and syntactically weird. Since the instance is created before
any constructor is called, there's no point in time where the
instance isn't there.
This also fixes a bug where constructors weren't being bound
correctly, and eliminates some unneeded instructions when
compiling ifs.
I also tweaked the other method_call languages to match Wren's.
Since Wren needs to do a super call to get to the parent _count,
the other languages do now too.
This is nice too because it means we're benchmarking super
calls.
Bob Nystrom
Kyle Marek-Spartz
Evan Shaw