improvements according to the review

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ It serves as first version to experiment with Typir and to gather feedback to gu
   - Caching
 - [Predefined types](/packages/typir/src/kinds/) to reuse:
   - Primitives
-  - Functions
+  - Functions (with overloading)
   - Classes (nominally typed)
   - Top, bottom
   - (some more are under development)
-  - Operators (which are mapped to Functions)
+  - Operators (which are mapped to Functions, with overloading)
 - Application examples:
   - LOX (without lambdas)
   - OX

README.md

@@ -21,8 +21,13 @@ As a stand-alone library, Typir provides a TypeScript-API for language engineers
 
 Typir provides these core features:
 
-- Predefined types: primitives, functions, classes, top, bottom (more are planned)
-- Solutions for: circular type definitions, caching
+- Predefined types:
+  - primitives
+  - functions (with overloading)
+  - classes
+  - top, bottom
+  - (more are planned)
+- Solutions for: circular type definitions, caching, operators
 - Meaningful and customizable error messages
 - The provided default implementations are customizable by dependency injection
 

examples/lox/src/language/lox-type-checking.ts

@@ -86,9 +86,11 @@ export class LoxTypeCreator extends AbstractLangiumTypeCreator {
                 // show a warning to the user, if something like "3 == false" is compared, since different types already indicate, that the IF condition will be evaluated to false
                 validationRule: (node, _operatorName, _operatorType, typir) => typir.validation.Constraints.ensureNodeIsEquals(node.left, node.right, (actual, expected) => <ValidationMessageDetails>{
                     message: `This comparison will always return '${node.operator === '==' ? 'false' : 'true'}' as '${node.left.$cstNode?.text}' and '${node.right.$cstNode?.text}' have the different types '${actual.name}' and '${expected.name}'.`,
-                    domainElement: node, // mark the 'operator' property! (note that "node.right" and "node.left" are the input for Typir)
-                    domainProperty: 'operator',
+                    domainElement: node, // inside the BinaryExpression ...
+                    domainProperty: 'operator', // ... mark the '==' or '!=' token, i.e. the 'operator' property
                     severity: 'warning' }),
+                // (The use of "node.right" and "node.left" without casting is possible, since the type checks of the given 'inferenceRule' are reused for the 'validationRule'.
+                //  This approach saves the duplication of checks for inference and validation, but makes the validation rules depending on the inference rule.)
             });
         }
         // = for SuperType = SubType (Note that this implementation of LOX realized assignments as operators!)
@@ -131,7 +133,7 @@ export class LoxTypeCreator extends AbstractLangiumTypeCreator {
                 if (domainElement.type) {
                     return domainElement.type; // the user declared this variable with a type
                 } else if (domainElement.value) {
-                    return domainElement.value; // the user didn't declared a type for this variable => do type inference of the assigned value instead!
+                    return domainElement.value; // the user didn't declare a type for this variable => do type inference of the assigned value instead!
                 } else {
                     return InferenceRuleNotApplicable; // this case is impossible, there is a validation in the Langium LOX validator for this case
                 }

packages/typir/src/graph/type-node.ts

@@ -64,9 +64,10 @@ export abstract class Type {
     protected readonly edgesOutgoing: Map<string, TypeEdge[]> = new Map();
 
     /**
-     * An element from the domain might be associated with this type, e.g. the declaration node in the AST.
+     * The current type might be associated with an element from the domain, e.g. the corresponding declaration node in the AST.
      * This domain element is _not_ used for managing the lifecycles of this type,
      * since it should be usable for any domain-specific purpose.
+     * Therefore, the use and update of this feature is under the responsibility of the user of Typir.
      */
     readonly associatedDomainElement: unknown | undefined;