WebAssembly / WebAssembly/component-model
wit: Propagate feature gate annotations to inner items
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Description
I think that these two snippets should be equivalent:
@since(version = 0.1.0)
interface handler {
handle: func();
@since(version = 0.2.0);
new-handle: func();
}
@since(version = 0.1.0)
interface new-interface {
@since(version = 0.1.0)
hello: func();
@since(version = 0.2.0);
new-handle: func();
}
The more explicit version would be the canonical form reflected in the parse tree.
I think this goes beyond just authoring convenience. When every item is annotated it becomes more difficult to pick out the exceptional items; see e.g. https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-http/blob/main/wit/types.wit
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Research direction
Start by locating the WIT parser and its parse-tree representation, then compare how interface-level and item-level @since annotations are recorded. Use the two snippets in the issue as the behavioral example; done means the implicit annotations are represented explicitly and the exceptional newer item remains distinguishable.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100