fix: Avoid issuing duplicate errors during interpreting #5341
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Description
Problem*
Summary*
The interpreter can issue duplicate errors if there were e.g. type errors that occurred within the comptime block being run.
For example:
Will give:
The first of which is a type error, and the second an interpreter error. Similarly, if we have a type error in some builtin methods like
slice_push_back
, these will lead to panics in the interpreter which assume errors will already be caught during type checking (they are caught, but the interpreter is still run on this code afterwards anyway).To fix this, I've added a
SilentFail
error variant to avoid issuing these errors that are expected to be caught by the type system already.Additional Context
The interpreter is still run even on code that previously errored since it is difficult to track for a given block if any code reachable from it has errored.
One alternative could be to only run the interpreter if there has been zero errors in the whole program so far. I'm open to discussion here.
Documentation*
Check one:
PR Checklist*
cargo fmt
on default settings.