The current syntax separates the name and value with ':', but ':' is already overloaded by several other things(e.g. trailing types). This makes the syntax difficult to parse in some situtations:
Old:
"foo: 10 : i32"
New:
"foo = 10 : i32"
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This is the standard syntax for types on operations, and is also already used by IntegerAttr and FloatAttr.
Example:
dense<5> : tensor<i32>
dense<[3]> : tensor<1xi32>
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The entire compiler now looks at structural properties of the function (e.g.
does it have one block, does it contain an if/for stmt, etc) so the only thing
holding up this difference is round tripping through the parser/printer syntax.
Removing this shrinks the compile by ~140LOC.
This is step 31/n towards merging instructions and statements. The last step
is updating the docs, which I will do as a separate patch in order to split it
from this mostly mechanical patch.
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