removed chained comparisons again, because they caused invalid expression evaluations due to changed semantics.

codeOptimizers/src/prog8/optimizer/ConstantFoldingOptimizer.kt

@@ -142,11 +142,9 @@ class ConstantFoldingOptimizer(private val program: Program, private val errors:
         // const fold when both operands are a const.
         // if in a chained comparison, that one has to be desugared first though.
         if(leftconst != null && rightconst != null) {
-            if((expr.parent as? BinaryExpression)?.isChainedComparison()!=true) {
             val result = evaluator.evaluate(leftconst, expr.operator, rightconst)
             modifications += IAstModification.ReplaceNode(expr, result, parent)
         }
-        }
 
         if(leftconst==null && rightconst!=null && rightconst.number<0.0) {
             if (expr.operator == "-") {

compiler/src/prog8/compiler/Compiler.kt

@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ import prog8.ast.Program
 import prog8.ast.base.AstException
 import prog8.ast.expressions.Expression
 import prog8.ast.expressions.NumericLiteral
+import prog8.ast.printProgram
 import prog8.ast.statements.Directive
 import prog8.code.SymbolTableMaker
 import prog8.code.ast.PtProgram
+import prog8.code.ast.printAst
 import prog8.code.core.*
 import prog8.code.optimize.optimizeIntermediateAst
 import prog8.code.target.*
@@ -94,10 +96,10 @@ fun compileProgram(args: CompilerArguments): CompilationResult? {
             importedFiles = imported
 
             processAst(program, args.errors, compilationOptions)
-            if (compilationOptions.optimize) {
 //                println("*********** COMPILER AST RIGHT BEFORE OPTIMIZING *************")
 //                printProgram(program)
 
+            if (compilationOptions.optimize) {
                 optimizeAst(
                     program,
                     compilationOptions,
@@ -105,6 +107,7 @@ fun compileProgram(args: CompilerArguments): CompilationResult? {
                     BuiltinFunctionsFacade(BuiltinFunctions),
                 )
             }
+
             postprocessAst(program, args.errors, compilationOptions)
 
 //            println("*********** COMPILER AST BEFORE ASSEMBLYGEN *************")
@@ -120,16 +123,15 @@ fun compileProgram(args: CompilerArguments): CompilationResult? {
                 program.processAstBeforeAsmGeneration(compilationOptions, args.errors)
                 args.errors.report()
 
-//                println("*********** COMPILER AST RIGHT BEFORE ASM GENERATION *************")
+                println("*********** COMPILER AST RIGHT BEFORE ASM GENERATION *************")
-//                printProgram(program)
+                printProgram(program)
 
                 val intermediateAst = IntermediateAstMaker(program, args.errors).transform()
-//                printAst(intermediateAst, true) { println(it) }
                 optimizeIntermediateAst(intermediateAst, compilationOptions, args.errors)
                 args.errors.report()
 
-//                println("*********** AST RIGHT BEFORE ASM GENERATION *************")
+                println("*********** AST RIGHT BEFORE ASM GENERATION *************")
-//                printAst(intermediateAst, true, ::println)
+                printAst(intermediateAst, true, ::println)
 
                 if(!createAssemblyAndAssemble(intermediateAst, args.errors, compilationOptions)) {
                     System.err.println("Error in codegeneration or assembler")

compiler/src/prog8/compiler/astprocessing/CodeDesugarer.kt

@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ internal class CodeDesugarer(val program: Program, private val errors: IErrorRep
     // - pointer[word] replaced by @(pointer+word)
     // - @(&var) and @(&var+1) replaced by lsb(var) and msb(var) if var is a word
     // - flatten chained assignments
-    // - rewrite chained comparisons like  i<x<j  into  i<x and x<j
 
     override fun before(breakStmt: Break, parent: Node): Iterable<IAstModification> {
         fun jumpAfter(stmt: Statement): Iterable<IAstModification> {
@@ -260,29 +259,6 @@ _after:
             return listOf(IAstModification.ReplaceNode(expr, squareCall, parent))
         }
 
-        // desugar chained comparisons:  i < x < j  --->  i<x and x<j
-        // only if  i<x  or x<j  was not written in parentheses!   (i<x) < y,  i < (x<y)  -> leave untouched
-        if(expr.isChainedComparison()) {
-            val leftBinExpr = expr.left as? BinaryExpression
-            if(leftBinExpr!=null) {
-                if(!leftBinExpr.right.isSimple) {
-                    errors.warn("possible multiple evaluation of subexpression in chained comparison, consider using a temporary variable", leftBinExpr.right.position)
-                }
-                val right = BinaryExpression(leftBinExpr.right.copy(), expr.operator, expr.right, leftBinExpr.right.position)
-                val desugar = BinaryExpression(leftBinExpr, "and", right, expr.position)
-                return listOf(IAstModification.ReplaceNode(expr, desugar, parent))
-            }
-            val rightBinExpr = expr.right as? BinaryExpression
-            if(rightBinExpr!=null) {
-                if(!rightBinExpr.left.isSimple) {
-                    errors.warn("possible multiple evaluation of subexpression in chained comparison, consider using a temporary variable", rightBinExpr.left.position)
-                }
-                val left = BinaryExpression(expr.left, expr.operator, rightBinExpr.left.copy(), rightBinExpr.left.position)
-                val desugar = BinaryExpression(left, "and", rightBinExpr, expr.position)
-                return listOf(IAstModification.ReplaceNode(expr, desugar, parent))
-            }
-        }
-
         return noModifications
     }
 

compilerAst/src/prog8/ast/expressions/AstExpressions.kt

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ sealed class Expression: Node {
             is PrefixExpression ->
                 (other is PrefixExpression && other.operator==operator && other.expression isSameAs expression)
             is BinaryExpression -> {
-                if(other !is BinaryExpression || other.operator!=operator || other.isChainedComparison()!=isChainedComparison())
+                if(other !is BinaryExpression || other.operator!=operator)
                     false
                 else if(operator in AssociativeOperators)
                     (other.left isSameAs left && other.right isSameAs right) || (other.left isSameAs right && other.right isSameAs left)
@@ -182,18 +182,6 @@ class BinaryExpression(
 
     override val isSimple = false
 
-    fun isChainedComparison(): Boolean {
-        if(operator in ComparisonOperators) {
-            val leftBinExpr = left as? BinaryExpression
-            if (leftBinExpr != null && !leftBinExpr.insideParentheses && leftBinExpr.operator in ComparisonOperators)
-                return true
-            val rightBinExpr = right as? BinaryExpression
-            if (rightBinExpr != null && !rightBinExpr.insideParentheses && rightBinExpr.operator in ComparisonOperators)
-                return true
-        }
-        return false
-    }
-
     // binary expression should actually have been optimized away into a single value, before const value was requested...
     override fun constValue(program: Program): NumericLiteral? = null
 

docs/source/syntaxreference.rst

@@ -592,7 +592,6 @@ postfix increment and decrement: ``++``  ``--``
 comparison: ``==``  ``!=``  ``<``  ``>``  ``<=``  ``>=``
     Equality, Inequality, Less-than, Greater-than, Less-or-Equal-than, Greater-or-Equal-than comparisons.
     The result is a boolean value 'true' or 'false' (1 or 0).
-    Note that you can chain comparisons like so: ``i < x < j``, which is the same as ``i<x and x<j``.
 
 logical:  ``not``  ``and``  ``or``  ``xor``
 	These operators are the usual logical operations that are part of a logical expression to reason

docs/source/todo.rst

@@ -1,17 +1,6 @@
 TODO
 ====
 
-- Revert or fix current "desugar chained comparisons" it causes problems with if statements (in optimizer).
-        ubyte @shared n=20
-        ubyte @shared L1=10
-        ubyte @shared L2=100
-
-        if n < L1 {
-          ;txt.print("bing")
-        } else {
-          txt.print("boom")         ; no longer triggers
-        }
-
 ...
 
 
@@ -87,3 +76,6 @@ Other language/syntax features to think about
 - add (rom/ram)bank support to romsub.   A call will then automatically switch banks, use callfar and something else when in banked ram.
   challenges: how to not make this too X16 specific? How does the compiler know what bank to switch (ram/rom)?
   How to make it performant when we want to (i.e. NOT have it use callfar/auto bank switching) ?
+- chained comparisons   `10<x<20` ,   `x==y==z`   (desugars to  `10<x and x<20`,   `x==y and y==z`)
+  BUT this needs a new AST node type and rewritten parser rules, because otherwise it changes the semantics
+  of existing expressions such as  if x<y==0 ...