feat: full path for error reporting in variable parser

src/02_syntax/root.zig

@@ -41,9 +41,19 @@ pub const Module = struct {
         // parse many statements
         while (current_pos < input_len) {
             var stmt: statement.Statement = undefined;
+            var current_error: errors.ErrorData = undefined;
 
             // TODO: handle other errors of vardef parsing
-            const next_pos = try stmt.init(tokens, current_pos, allocator);
+            const next_pos = stmt.init(tokens, current_pos, &current_error, allocator) catch |e| switch (e) {
+                error.Error => {
+                    // add the error to the list of errors,
+                    // and exit for now because i havent implemented
+                    // error recovery yet
+                    try err_arrl.append(current_error);
+                    return error.Error;
+                },
+                else => return e,
+            };
             if (next_pos) |next_pos_actual| {
                 current_pos = next_pos_actual;
 

src/02_syntax/statement.zig

@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ pub const Statement = struct {
         target: *Statement,
         tokens: *const TokenStream,
         pos: usize,
+        err: *errors.ErrorData,
         allocator: std.mem.Allocator,
     ) ParseError!?usize {
         // try to parse a variable definition
@@ -27,8 +28,8 @@ pub const Statement = struct {
         var vardef = try allocator.create(variable.VariableBinding);
         errdefer allocator.destroy(vardef);
 
-        // TODO: handle other errors of vardef parsing
+        const vardef_result = try vardef.init(tokens, pos, err, allocator);
-        if (try vardef.init(tokens, pos, undefined, allocator)) |vardef_end| {
+        if (vardef_result) |vardef_end| {
             // variable definition parsed
             // return the parsed variable definition
             target.* = .{
@@ -61,7 +62,7 @@ test "should parse a variable declaration statement" {
     defer tokens.deinit();
 
     var statement: Statement = undefined;
-    _ = try statement.init(&tokens, 0, std.testing.allocator);
+    _ = try statement.init(&tokens, 0, undefined, std.testing.allocator);
     defer statement.deinit();
 
     switch (statement.value) {
@@ -80,7 +81,7 @@ test "should fail on other constructs" {
     defer tokens.deinit();
 
     var statement: Statement = undefined;
-    const result = try statement.init(&tokens, 0, std.testing.allocator);
+    const result = try statement.init(&tokens, 0, undefined, std.testing.allocator);
     if (result == null) {
         // good path
         return;

src/main.zig

@@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ fn repl() !void {
         //
         var error_array = std.ArrayList(errors.ErrorData).init(alloc);
         defer error_array.deinit();
+        defer for (error_array.items) |item| {
+            var i = item;
+            i.deinit();
+        };
 
         const tokens = lexic.tokenize(line, alloc, &error_array) catch |e| switch (e) {
             error.OutOfMemory => {
@@ -114,7 +118,20 @@ fn repl() !void {
         // Syntax analysis
         //
         var ast: syntax.Module = undefined;
-        try ast.init(&tokens, 0, alloc, &error_array);
+        ast.init(&tokens, 0, alloc, &error_array) catch |e| switch (e) {
+            error.Error => {
+                // Print all the errors
+                for (error_array.items) |ee| {
+                    var err_item = ee;
+                    const err_str = try err_item.get_error_str(line, "repl", alloc);
+                    try stdout.print("\n{s}\n", .{err_str});
+                    try bw.flush();
+                    alloc.free(err_str);
+                }
+                continue;
+            },
+            else => return e,
+        };
 
         // next repl line
     }