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[red-knot] Add support for overloaded functions (#17366)
## Summary
Part of #15383, this PR adds support for overloaded callables.
Typing spec: https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/overload.html
Specifically, it does the following:
1. Update the `FunctionType::signature` method to return signatures from
a possibly overloaded callable using a new `FunctionSignature` enum
2. Update `CallableType` to accommodate overloaded callable by updating
the inner type to `Box<[Signature]>`
3. Update the relation methods on `CallableType` with logic specific to
overloads
4. Update the display of callable type to display a list of signatures
enclosed by parenthesis
5. Update `CallableTypeOf` special form to recognize overloaded callable
6. Update subtyping, assignability and fully static check to account for
callables (equivalence is planned to be done as a follow-up)
For (2), it is required to be done in this PR because otherwise I'd need
to add some workaround for `into_callable_type` and I though it would be
best to include it in here.
For (2), another possible design would be convert `CallableType` in an
enum with two variants `CallableType::Single` and
`CallableType::Overload` but I decided to go with `Box<[Signature]>` for
now to (a) mirror it to be equivalent to `overload` field on
`CallableSignature` and (b) to avoid any refactor in this PR. This could
be done in a follow-up to better split the two kind of callables.
### Design
There were two main candidates on how to represent the overloaded
definition:
1. To include it in the existing infrastructure which is what this PR is
doing by recognizing all the signatures within the
`FunctionType::signature` method
2. To create a new `Overload` type variant
<details><summary>For context, this is what I had in mind with the new
type variant:</summary>
<p>
```rs
pub enum Type {
FunctionLiteral(FunctionType),
Overload(OverloadType),
BoundMethod(BoundMethodType),
...
}
pub struct OverloadType {
// FunctionLiteral or BoundMethod
overloads: Box<[Type]>,
// FunctionLiteral or BoundMethod
implementation: Option<Type>
}
pub struct BoundMethodType {
kind: BoundMethodKind,
self_instance: Type,
}
pub enum BoundMethodKind {
Function(FunctionType),
Overload(OverloadType),
}
```
</p>
</details>
The main reasons to choose (1) are the simplicity in the implementation,
reusing the existing infrastructure, avoiding any complications that the
new type variant has specifically around the different variants between
function and methods which would require the overload type to use `Type`
instead.
### Implementation
The core logic is how to collect all the overloaded functions. The way
this is done in this PR is by recording a **use** on the `Identifier`
node that represents the function name in the use-def map. This is then
used to fetch the previous symbol using the same name. This way the
signatures are going to be propagated from top to bottom (from first
overload to the final overload or the implementation) with each function
/ method. For example:
```py
from typing import overload
@overload
def foo(x: int) -> int: ...
@overload
def foo(x: str) -> str: ...
def foo(x: int | str) -> int | str:
return x
```
Here, each definition of `foo` knows about all the signatures that comes
before itself. So, the first overload would only see itself, the second
would see the first and itself and so on until the implementation or the
final overload.
This approach required some updates specifically recognizing
`Identifier` node to record the function use because it doesn't use
`ExprName`.
## Test Plan
Update existing test cases which were limited by the overload support
and add test cases for the following cases:
* Valid overloads as functions, methods, generics, version specific
* Invalid overloads as stated in
https://typing.python.org/en/latest/spec/overload.html#invalid-overload-definitions
(implementation will be done in a follow-up)
* Various relation: fully static, subtyping, and assignability (others
in a follow-up)
## Ecosystem changes
_WIP_
After going through the ecosystem changes (there are a lot!), here's
what I've found:
We need assignability check between a callable type and a class literal
because a lot of builtins are defined as classes in typeshed whose
constructor method is overloaded e.g., `map`, `sorted`, `list.sort`,
`max`, `min` with the `key` parameter, `collections.abc.defaultdict`,
etc. (https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/17343). This makes up
most of the ecosystem diff **roughly 70 diagnostics**. For example:
```py
from collections import defaultdict
# red-knot: No overload of bound method `__init__` matches arguments [lint:no-matching-overload]
defaultdict(int)
# red-knot: No overload of bound method `__init__` matches arguments [lint:no-matching-overload]
defaultdict(list)
class Foo:
def __init__(self, x: int):
self.x = x
# red-knot: No overload of function `__new__` matches arguments [lint:no-matching-overload]
map(Foo, ["a", "b", "c"])
```
Duplicate diagnostics in unpacking
(https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/16514) has **~16
diagnostics**.
Support for the `callable` builtin which requires `TypeIs` support. This
is **5 diagnostics**. For example:
```py
from typing import Any
def _(x: Any | None) -> None:
if callable(x):
# red-knot: `Any | None`
# Pyright: `(...) -> object`
# mypy: `Any`
# pyrefly: `(...) -> object`
reveal_type(x)
```
Narrowing on `assert` which has **11 diagnostics**. This is being worked
on in https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/17345. For example:
```py
import re
match = re.search("", "")
assert match
match.group() # error: [possibly-unbound-attribute]
```
Others:
* `Self`: 2
* Type aliases: 6
* Generics: 3
* Protocols: 13
* Unpacking in comprehension: 1
(https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/pull/17396)
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