Functor is an imperative representation of function's contract (contrary
to ContractDescription, which is a declarative one). ContractDescription
is convenient when we deal with sources of contracts declarations
(binaries, source), while Functors are convenient for analyzing code
with contracts.
It means that we have to convert ContractDescription into Functor when
we start working with contracts. This computation isn't trivial, and
Functor and ContractDescription are in 1-1 correspondence, so we would
like to cache Functor for each ContractDescription somewhere.
We used to do this in binding trace, in slice FUNCTOR.
Now, it turns out that this approach causes "Rewrite at slice"
exception, see KT-28847. We won't go into details of why that happens
here, you can see the issue comments for details (but be prepared for the
very long and nitty-gritty story)
This commit removes the problematic slice and introduces another
approach, where Functor is attached to the ContractDescription, computed
lazily and cached here.
^KT-28847 Fixed
Extract Java-specific code into module 'frontend.java' and use already
existing JavaAnnotationArgument facilities to determine the default
parameter value in an actual Java annotation class.
Annotation arguments are not yet supported because to create an instance
of AnnotationValue, we need a descriptor, which is not available at this
point.
#KT-22704 In Progress
#KT-28077 Open
Dmitriy Dolovov