Modules

This crate contains code for IPC between the Dusk compiler and the Dusk Visual Debugger (DVD).

The type provider is a (arguably poorly named) data structure that stores not only the selected type for each expression in the program, but also a bunch of other stuff (see declare_tp_fields). Why does it exist at all, instead of just storing this info on Driver? Because there are some occasions where the typechecker wants to make queries about the program, such as which possible types an expression could have. Making these queries requires making changes to the values in the type provider, which we don’t want to do. So we have two kinds of type providers, abstracted by the TypeProvider trait: real and mock. There is only one real type provider, which stores the real answers. A mock type provider wraps the real type provider and provides a safe sandbox to temporarily make modifications to, then throw away.