Six audit-driven blockers landed together because they're tangled:
* MENU TO removed from std.ch — the rule expanded to a call to a
nonexistent __MenuTo() RTL symbol, so any user code with `MENU
TO choice` compiled clean and panicked at runtime. Behavior
pre-this-round was a parser silent no-op, which is at least
consistent. Restore that until @ PROMPT (the companion command)
actually lands.
* COUNT now requires `TO <var>`. The earlier `[TO <v>]` optional
bracket was a Harbour-pattern transcription error: the result
template references `<v>` unconditionally, so a bare `COUNT`
expanded to ungrammatical ` := 0 ; dbEval(...)` and the
PRG parser rejected it. Match Harbour's std.ch which makes TO
mandatory.
* UPDATE FROM ... REPLACE now requires `FROM`/`ON`/`REPLACE` all
three. Same root cause as COUNT: the result template uses
`<key>`, `<f1>`, `<x1>` unconditionally; missing any of them
produced broken syntax. Tightened to fail loudly rather than
silently mis-expand.
* CLOSE <unknown_alias> no longer closes the *current* workarea.
SelectByAlias was a silent no-op when the alias was missing,
leaving WASaveAndSelectAlias to evaluate the inner DbCloseArea()
against the originally-selected WA — a real data-loss footgun.
SelectByAlias now returns bool; WASaveAndSelectAlias switches to
the no-area sentinel (0) on miss so the inner expression's
Current() returns nil and short-circuits.
* SUM <x1>, <xN> TO <v1>, <vN> — multi-pair form supported.
Required two pieces:
1. matchSegment's regular-marker stop-boundary now combines
outerTail literals AND the segment's repeat boundary so
`[, <xN>]` doesn't let `<xN>` swallow past the next ','.
2. **Five parser miscompiled comma-separated expressions in
code blocks.** `{|| e1, e2, e3 }` kept only the last expr
and threw away earlier ones at *AST level*, so all their
side effects vanished. New SeqExpr AST node + emitter
(emit each, pop intermediate results) + folding/walk
updates fix the underlying bug, which also unbreaks any
other block that relied on comma sequencing.
* pp.go's `;` continuation joiner now strips exactly one trailing
`;` per iteration, preserving Harbour's `;;` convention (literal
`;` followed by a continuation marker). Without this the SUM
rule's chained `<v1> :=[ <vN> :=] 0 ; ; dbEval(...)` collapsed
to a missing statement separator.
* parseExprStmt's xBase fallback switch is back in sync with
parseIdentStmt — COPY/SORT/COUNT/SUM/AVERAGE/TOTAL/UPDATE/JOIN/
DISPLAY/LIST removed (std.ch handles all of them now). Leaving
them in the fallback masked typos as silent no-ops.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`UPDATE [FROM <alias>] [ON <key>] [RANDOM] REPLACE <f1> WITH <x1>
[, <fN> WITH <xN>]` becomes a preprocessor rewrite to a new RTL
primitive __dbUpdate. For each detail record, find the master
record with matching key (forward-walk if both sorted, full scan
when RANDOM) and apply the REPLACE clauses in master's context.
Same shape as harbour-core/src/rdd/dbupdat.prg. The REPLACE clauses
expand to comma-separated assignments inside one block —
`{|| _FIELD->total := del->amt, _FIELD->status := "OK" }` — using
the multi-pair `[, <fN> WITH <xN>]` optional-repeat that std.ch
already establishes for SUM and DEFAULT.
Five-specific tweak: ON <key> wraps as `{|| _FIELD-><key> }` rather
than Harbour's bare `<{key}>`. Five doesn't auto-resolve a bare
identifier in a code block to the current workarea's field, and the
UPDATE block must evaluate against both detail and master so an
explicit alias prefix won't do — _FIELD-> dispatches to whichever
area is selected at eval time, which is what's needed.
Wiring up UPDATE surfaced one further matchSegment gap that fell
out of the multi-pair `[REPLACE ... [, ...]]` shape:
* matchSegment didn't handle nested `[...]` inside its body.
`[REPLACE <f1> WITH <x1> [, <fN> WITH <xN>]]` gave the inner
`[` as a literal token to match against the line, so even the
single-pair `REPLACE total WITH del->amt` form failed and f1/x1
came back empty. Now matchSegment runs the same repeat-loop on
inner `[...]` blocks that the top-level matcher uses, with its
own outer-tail computed from the segment tail past the inner
`]`.
Parser cleanup: UPDATE removed from the IDENT-statement no-op switch.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`JOIN WITH <alias> TO <file> [FIELDS <list>] [FOR <expr>]` becomes a
preprocessor rewrite to a new RTL primitive __dbJoin. Cartesian
product of the current ("master") workarea and the named "detail"
alias, filtered by the FOR expression.
Output structure:
* No FIELDS clause: master's fields followed by detail's, dropping
any detail-side name that clashes with master.
* FIELDS list: one column per name in declaration order, resolved
against master first then detail.
Same shape as harbour-core/src/rdd/dbjoin.prg. Five-specific
simplifications: alias->name in FIELDS not yet supported (bare
names with master-precedence lookup); RDD/codepage args dropped
since Five only has DBFNTX.
Note for callers: don't name a workarea `M` or `MEMVAR` — both are
Harbour-reserved memvar aliases, so `M->field` and `MEMVAR->field`
always go through the memory-variable namespace, not the workarea.
This is gengo behavior matching Harbour, not new in this commit.
Parser cleanup: JOIN removed from the IDENT-statement no-op switch.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`TOTAL TO <file> ON <key> [FIELDS <list>] [FOR ...] [WHILE ...]
[NEXT ...] [RECORD ...] [REST] [ALL]` joins the family of std.ch
DML rewrites. New RTL primitive __dbTotal:
* Walk the source under dbEval-style FOR/WHILE/NEXT/RECORD/REST
bounds. The source must already be sorted/indexed on the key —
same precondition as Harbour's dbtotal.prg.
* Track the current group key. On each key change, flush the
accumulated row to the destination (writing the running totals
back into the most recently appended record's sum-fields,
preserving each field's declared length/decimals).
* On the *first* record of every group, append a fresh dst row
and copy all non-memo source fields into it; subsequent records
in the group only contribute to the sums. Net effect: non-summed
fields take the first record's value, summed fields hold the
group total. Same shape as harbour-core/src/rdd/dbtotal.prg.
* Memo fields are dropped from the destination structure (Harbour
does the same).
Parser cleanup: TOTAL removed from the IDENT-statement no-op switch.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`LIST [<fields>] [OFF] [FOR ...] [WHILE ...] [NEXT ...] [RECORD ...]
[REST] [ALL]` and `DISPLAY [<fields>] [OFF] [FOR ...] ... [ALL]`
reach the parser as plain function calls to a new RTL primitive
__dbList (rtlDbList in hbrtl/database.go).
Implementation: walk the workarea under dbEval-style FOR/WHILE/NEXT/
RECORD/REST bounds. For each visible record, evaluate each column
block and emit the rendered values via valueToDisplay (the same
formatter QOut already uses). Empty fields list defaults to
"all fields". OFF suppresses the record-number prefix.
LIST always emits the full filtered range; DISPLAY without ALL emits
only the current record (encoded as nCount=1). TO PRINTER / TO FILE
clauses are not yet wired through — for now everything goes to
stdout.
Wiring up LIST/DISPLAY surfaced four further gaps in PP that were
silently masking bugs in any rule with multiple word-list / list /
optional clauses chained together:
* matchSegment refused MarkerWordList inside `[...]`. The LIST
rule's `[<off:OFF>]` clause therefore never set the off
capture, and `<.off.>` substituted to nothing instead of .T./.F.
matchSegment now matches WordList markers the same way the
top-level matcher does.
* `<v,...>` and `<(f)>` capture stop boundaries didn't include the
values of following MarkerWordList markers. For
`[<v,...>] [<off:OFF>] [<all:ALL>]` against `LIST id, name OFF`,
the v list would happily eat OFF. New addStopFrom helper
contributes both literal keywords and word-list values; both
matchSegment's MarkerList branch and captureExpression now use
it.
* Optional-repeat loop in matchPattern merged a no-progress
iteration's empty capture into the running multi-capture string
(with the `\x01` separator) before the no-progress break check
fired. So a successful first iteration's value got contaminated
and the substitution loop then skipped it as multi-capture
garbage. The merge now happens after the progress check.
* Unreferenced `<.name.>` markers (optional clauses that didn't
match in the input) were getting cleaned up to empty by the
generic marker scrubber instead of the .F. sentinel Harbour's
std.ch expects. New replaceUnreferencedLogify pass mirrors the
existing replaceUnreferencedBlockify and runs just before the
cleanup.
Parser cleanup: LIST and DISPLAY removed from the IDENT-statement
no-op switch in both parseIdentStmt and parseExprStmt.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`SORT TO <file> [ON <key-list>] [FOR ...] [WHILE ...] [NEXT ...]
[RECORD ...] [REST] [ALL]` joins COPY in being a real preprocessor
rewrite to a function call. New RTL primitive __dbSort:
* Buffer visible source records (FOR/WHILE/NEXT/RECORD/REST same
as __dbCopy).
* Multi-key stable insertion sort. Each key may carry `/D` for
descending; ascending otherwise. /A and unknown suffixes fall
through as ascending. Comparison delegates to the existing
compareValues helper in sqlscan.go (numeric / string / NIL-aware).
* Create destination DBF with the source's struct, append rows in
sorted order, restore source selection.
Parser cleanup: SORT removed from the IDENT-statement no-op switch.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`COPY TO <file> [FIELDS <list>] [FOR ...] [WHILE ...] [NEXT ...]
[RECORD ...] [REST] [ALL]` reaches the parser as a plain function
call to a new RTL primitive __dbCopy (rtlDbCopy in hbrtl/database.go).
Implementation: project the field list (case-insensitive name match
against the source's structure, full copy when omitted), dbCreate the
target file with that struct, open it under a temp alias, walk the
source under dbEval-style FOR/WHILE/NEXT/RECORD/REST bounds, and
GetValue/Append/PutValue per record into the target. SDF / DELIMITED
variants stay parser no-ops until those backends arrive.
Wiring up COPY surfaced four longstanding gaps in the PP that had to
be fixed for the rule to even reach the runtime:
* `<(name)>` *pattern* marker was treated as a regular `<name>`
with the parens baked into the captured key, so the matching
result substitution `<(name)>` couldn't find it. parseOneMarker
now strips the parens at parse time so capture key and result
marker share the bare name. The smart-stringify result behavior
is unchanged.
* matchSegment (the optional-clause matcher) bailed on every
non-Regular marker. `[FIELDS <fields,...>]` therefore failed to
match at all and the fields list arrived empty in the result
template. matchSegment now handles MarkerList with paren-balanced
capture and segment+outer literal stop boundaries.
* captureExpression only used the first literal in the pattern
tail as a stop boundary. With std.ch's chain of optional
clauses (`[TO <(f)>] [FIELDS ...] [FOR ...] [WHILE ...] ...`)
the file-name marker was happy to gobble a trailing FOR clause
when FIELDS was absent. It now stops at *any* of the remaining
pattern literals.
* `<(name)>` smart-stringify on a list-typed capture wrapped the
whole comma-joined string in one set of quotes — `{ "a , b" }` —
instead of `{ "a", "b" }`. New helper quoteListElements splits on
top-level commas (paren / bracket / brace / string-balanced) and
quotes each element. applyResult now consults the rule's marker
table to know which captures came from `<name,...>`.
Parser cleanup: COPY removed from the IDENT-statement no-op switch in
both parseIdentStmt and parseExprStmt.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Three xBase analytical commands that were silent no-ops in the
parser now execute as Harbour-style PP rewrites:
COUNT [TO <v>] [FOR <for>] [WHILE <while>] ... -> dbEval()
SUM <x> TO <v> [FOR <for>] [WHILE <while>] ... -> dbEval()
AVERAGE <x> TO <v> [FOR ...] -> __dbAverage()
COUNT and SUM expand to a `<v> := 0 ; dbEval( {|| ... } )` pair
matching harbour-core/include/std.ch verbatim. AVERAGE delegates to
a new RTL function rtlDbAverage (sum + count + divide; returns 0 on
empty match) — the chained-private-variable trick Harbour uses to
keep AVERAGE inline doesn't translate cleanly through Five's PP.
Wiring up these rules surfaced four PP issues that had to be fixed
for the rewrite to even reach the parser:
* Result template did not implement <{name}> blockify. So a rule
body like `{|| x := x + <x> }, <{for}>` left the literal text
`<{for}>` in the output. Added blockify substitution: captured
-> `{|| <captured> }`, missing -> NIL.
* findMarkerEnd did not recognise `{`/`}` so unreferenced
blockify markers were not cleaned up either. Added `{`/`}` to
its prefix/suffix sets.
* Optional-clause matching had no view of the outer pattern, so a
regular marker at the end of `[TO <v>]` would swallow the rest
of the line — `COUNT TO n FOR x>5` captured `<v>` as
"n FOR x>5". matchSegment now takes outerTail and stops at its
first literal.
* `#command` directives could not span multiple physical lines.
A trailing `;` is harbour-core's line-continuation marker for
std.ch and now joins the next line into the directive before
parsing.
Parser cleanup: COUNT, SUM, AVERAGE removed from the IDENT-statement
no-op switch in parseIdentStmt + parseExprStmt. The remaining xBase
verbs (COPY, SORT, TOTAL, JOIN, LIST, DISPLAY, LABEL, REPORT, ...)
stay in the parser until their RTL backends arrive.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce compiler/pp/std.ch with 19 #command rules so that ERASE,
RENAME, DELETE FILE, CLOSE [<a>|ALL|DATABASES], COMMIT, UNLOCK,
LOCATE/CONTINUE, REINDEX, PACK, ZAP, KEYBOARD, RUN, MENU TO, and
CLEAR GETS reach the parser pre-rewritten as plain function calls.
Embedded into the compiler binary via //go:embed so it auto-loads
without an explicit #include in user code, exactly the way Harbour
auto-loads its std.ch.
This is a pure dispatch move, not a behavior change for the
already-working forms: the same Five RTL functions get called.
But it does fix three regressions that the parser was masking:
* ERASE / RENAME / DELETE FILE used to be silent no-ops — the
parser swallowed the entire line and returned NIL. They now
actually delete/rename files (FErase / FRename).
* CLOSE <alias> used to silently ignore the alias and close the
current area. It now switches to the named area first
(<a>->( DbCloseArea() )).
* Two latent #command matcher bugs that surfaced while wiring
std.ch up:
- bare `CLOSE` would match rule `CLOSE ALL` because the tail
of the pattern wasn't checked for unconsumed literals.
- bare `CLOSE` would match rule `CLOSE <a>` because all
unconsumed pattern markers were unconditionally treated as
optional. They are only optional when nested inside `[...]`.
Parser cleanup: parseIdentStmt + parseExprStmt no longer hardcode
ERASE / RENAME / RUN / KEYBOARD / REINDEX / LOCATE / CONTINUE /
COMMIT / CLOSE — the rewriter handles them. Other xBase verbs
(COPY / SORT / COUNT / SUM / AVERAGE / TOTAL / JOIN / LIST /
DISPLAY / LABEL / REPORT / DIR ...) still no-op in the parser
because their RTL backends aren't implemented yet — once the
backends land they move into std.ch the same way.
Gates green:
go test ./... : PASS
FiveSql2 SQL:1999 : 43/43
Harbour compat : 56/56
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
