I guess that was a mental FIXME for later, but later came sooner. The
declaration doesn't seem to be working properly, but I'll worry about
that later when I can get some automated tests going.
As I suspected, the dereference was premature, although it can act as an
optimization when multiple fields of an object are accessed, though it
won't work for writes to lvalues (which means my fixes for spir-v
code-gen currently don't work for lvalue writes). Still, progress. Need
to get field member ids set.
Now declarations can be deferred too, thus things like generic/template
and inline functions should be possible. However, the most important
thing is this is a step towards a cleaner middle layer for compilation,
separating front-end language from back-end code-gen.
I plan to do this eventually for Ruamoko, but I need it to keep working
for now; it's rather nice having multiple languages. I expect this will
open up a lot of options for inlining, generic/template function
instantiation, etc. Right now, it's helping with specialization
constants in glsl.
