From 830671c2210191f69ddc403cc12f5454bb55b0f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Foley <tfoleyNV@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 10:39:05 -0800
Subject: Add surface syntax for "this type" (#1236)

Within the context of an aggregate type (or an `extension` of one), the programmer can use `this` to refer to the "current" instance of the surrounding type, but there is no easy way to utter the name of the type itself. This is especially relevant inside of an `interface`, where the type of `this` isn't actually the `interface` type, but rather a placeholder for the as-yet-unknown concrete type that will implement the interface.

This change adds a keyword `This` that works similarly to `this`, but names the current *type* instead of the current instance. It can be used to declare things like binary methods or factory functions in an interface:

```
interface IBasicMathType
{
    This absoluteValue();
    This sumWith(This left);
}

T doSomeMath<T:IBasicMathType>(T value)
{
    return value.sumWith(value.absoluteValue());
}
```

The `This` type is consistent with the type named `Self` in Rust and Swift (where Rust/Swift use `self` instead of `this`). Other names could be considered (e.g., `ThisType`) if we find that users don't like the name in this change.
---
 tests/compute/this-type.slang              | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 tests/compute/this-type.slang.expected.txt |  4 +++
 2 files changed, 52 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 tests/compute/this-type.slang
 create mode 100644 tests/compute/this-type.slang.expected.txt

(limited to 'tests')

diff --git a/tests/compute/this-type.slang b/tests/compute/this-type.slang
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..551fd0244
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/compute/this-type.slang
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+// this-type.slang
+
+// Confirm that that `This` type works as expected
+
+//TEST(compute):COMPARE_COMPUTE:
+//TEST(compute):COMPARE_COMPUTE:-cpu
+
+interface IFrobable
+{
+	This frob();
+	int getValue();
+}
+
+struct Thing : IFrobable
+{
+	int value;
+
+	Thing frob()
+	{
+		Thing result = { value * 16 };
+		return result;
+	}
+
+	int getValue() { return value; }
+}
+
+int frobnicate<F:IFrobable>(F f)
+{
+	return f.frob().getValue();
+}
+
+int test(int value)
+{
+	Thing t = { value };
+	return frobnicate(t) + value;
+}
+
+//TEST_INPUT:ubuffer(data=[0 1 2 3], stride=4):out,name=outputBuffer
+RWStructuredBuffer<int> outputBuffer : register(u0);
+
+[numthreads(4, 1, 1)]
+void computeMain(uint3 dispatchThreadID : SV_DispatchThreadID)
+{
+	uint tid = dispatchThreadID.x;
+	int inVal = outputBuffer[tid];
+	int outVal = test(inVal);
+	outputBuffer[tid] = outVal;
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/tests/compute/this-type.slang.expected.txt b/tests/compute/this-type.slang.expected.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d4cb1cc00
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/compute/this-type.slang.expected.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+0
+11
+22
+33
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