recv.attr ||= value on a receiver of several kinds is the two calls

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What this changes

Before: recv.attr ||= value (and &&=) was refused ("unsupported call-or-write (non-object)" as a statement, "unsupported expression" as a value) when the receiver may be one of several classes, as a value read out of a Hash or an Array of mixed values is. The emitter pairs the reader with the writer only for a receiver of one user class. ruby/rdoc hits this in RDoc::Context#add_constant (known.is_alias_for ||= constant.is_alias_for) and in two other places.

After: such a receiver takes the lowering a reopened builtin's accessor already had. The receiver is evaluated once, the reader runs, and the writer runs when the test says so. Each call dispatches as any call on that receiver does. The expression's value is the reader's answer or the value assigned, never the writer's own return value, as in CRuby.

class Constant
  attr_accessor :is_alias_for
end

class NormalModule
  attr_accessor :is_alias_for
end

constants = { "PI" => Constant.new, "Math" => NormalModule.new }
known = constants["PI"]
known.is_alias_for ||= :Float
known.is_alias_for ||= :Integer
p known.is_alias_for

CRuby prints :Float. Master refuses line 11 with "unsupported call-or-write (non-object)". With this change it compiles and prints the same as CRuby.

make gate (on this branch merged with current master)

Tests: 6915 pass, 2 fail, 0 error
scale-test: boxed Hash store work at 2x the methods is 1.95x (limit 2.20)
scale-test: boxed-receiver alias work at 2x the writes is 1.86x (limit 2.20)
scale-test: instance_eval forwarding work at 2x the wrappers is 1.71x (limit 2.50)
scale-test: work at 4x the program is 5.04x (linear 4.00, limit 5.20)
scale-test: work at 4x the program, compiled to C, is 6.50x (limit 6.90)
scale-test: call-shape work at 4x the units, compiled to C, is 4.21x (linear 4.00, limit 4.50)
gate-test-shared: 6914 pass, 1 known failures, 2 new failures
gate: Error 2 (the two failures below; every other leg passed)

Both corpus legs fail only socket_ipv6_and_class_methods (cannot create UDP socket) and pkg.tmpdir.tmpdir_expand_usable. Master fails both the same way on the machine the gate ran on. Benchmarks (70 pass), Optcarrot (checksum 59662), rubyspec-gate and the refusals check all pass.

• New tests have .expected files that match CRuby 4.0 run with --enable-frozen-string-literal
• Values past 2^31 are marked # spinel: int64
• If optcarrot's generated C changed: callgrind numbers, checksum 59662
• Depends on: #

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed ||= and &&= behavior when the receiver may be one of several types, including cases where the writer transforms the assigned value.
• Tests
  • Added coverage for mixed-type receivers, truthy and falsey values, nil assignments, and repeated reads and writes.

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Walkthrough

The desugaring pass now treats TY_POLY receivers as having defined readers and writers for the logical assignment rewrite. A new Ruby test exercises ||= and &&= with selected receivers and checks the resulting output.

Changes

Poly receiver assignment

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Poly receiver desugaring src/analyze.c, src/analyze_desugar.c	Comments describe the rewrite for receivers with several possible kinds. The pass marks both reader and writer as defined for TY_POLY receivers.
Assignment behavior coverage test/call_or_write_poly_receiver.rb, test/call_or_write_poly_receiver.rb.expected	The script exercises logical assignments across receiver classes, including a writer that transforms its assigned value. The expected-output fixture records the printed results.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

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The implementation appears mergeable, but the test should also check that &&= evaluates a side-effecting receiver only once.

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Title check		The title describes the main change: lowering recv.attr ||= value for receivers with several kinds into two calls. It is specific and related, although it does not mention the parallel &&= support…
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🧹 Nitpick comments (1)

test/call_or_write_poly_receiver.rb (1)

1-20: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add a side-effecting receiver case for &&=.

The $picks assertion detects duplicate receiver evaluation only for pick(1).is_alias_for ||= 1. All &&= cases use local receivers, so a regression that evaluates the receiver twice only for &&= can pass this fixture.

Suggested fix

 pick(1).is_alias_for ||= 1
 p $picks
+pick(1).is_alias_for &&= 1
+p $picks
 
 m = pick(1)

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Review comment at @test/call_or_write_poly_receiver.rb around lines 1 - 20:
Add a side-effecting receiver case for &&= using pick and verify $picks
increases only once, matching the existing ||= receiver-evaluation check; update
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