fix(wasm): a class used as a value is a constructor by raliclo · Pull Request #14665 · PerryTS/perry

raliclo · 2026-11-14T04:28:27Z

Summary

On --target web, Expr::ClassRef was emitted as a hard-coded undefined (the Expr::ClassRef(_) arm in emit/expr/classes.rs). A class used as a value therefore broke in all of these cases:

const KK: any = K; new KK(7) returned undefined, and the next access threw a TypeError.
const r = { C } gave typeof r.C === "undefined".

ClassRef now calls a new class_ref(className, ctorTableSlot | -1) bridge. It returns one cached host constructor per class (__classRef). new on that constructor builds the same {__class__} instance new K() builds and runs the compiled constructor from its table slot. new_dynamic already constructs host functions, so new KK(7) and new r.C() work, and instanceof K holds. Calling the class without new throws a TypeError.

Not covered here: static members read through the value (KK.staticMethod()), and a ClassRef inside async (JS-fallback) bodies.

This PR is independent of #14664 (closures as values), but both append a test to the end of emit/tests.rs. Whichever lands second will need a trivial rebase.

Changed: crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/classes.rs, emit/string_collection.rs, wasm_runtime.js (+ a test in emit/tests.rs).

Test plan

Run on macOS arm64 against a pristine build of main:

cargo test --release -p perry-codegen-wasm --lib: 77 passed / 0 failed. Main passes 76; the +1 is a_class_used_as_a_value_constructs_its_instances, which fails with the fix reverted.
bash tests/integration/wasm/run_wasm_tests.sh: 30 / 3. The 3 failures (04_functions, 10_higher_order, 19_ffi_imports) also fail on main.
BASE_SHA=<merge-base> SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1 bash scripts/run_lint_gates.sh: same FAIL set as main. Clippy on perry-codegen-wasm: unchanged. No parity subject owns these paths.

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New Features
- On the web, user-defined classes work as values, including when stored in variables or object properties. Use them as constructors to create instances with initialized fields and constructor arguments.
- Class constructors use the initialized instance when they return no value or a primitive, and use the returned object when they return an object. Calling a class value without new throws an error.
- instanceof recognizes instances across class inheritance chains and rejects unrelated values.

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WASM class references now produce cached runtime constructors instead of undefined. Constructing these values creates Perry class instances and invokes the compiled constructor when a constructor table slot is available.

Changes: WASM class values

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Class reference construction and validation `crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/expr/classes.rs`, `crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/string_collection.rs`, `crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/wasm_runtime.js`, `crates/perry-codegen-wasm/src/emit/tests.rs`, `changelog.d/14665-wasm-class-value.md`	The emitter passes class names and constructor table slots through the `class_ref` bridge. The runtime returns cached constructors, invokes available compiled constructors, and checks the Perry class-parent chain for `instanceof`. Tests cover construction through variables and object properties, field and method access, closure arguments, constructor return values, and class-chain checks.

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Change: Bug fix

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  participant ClassRefEmitter
  participant class_ref
  participant __classRef
  participant WASMFunctionTable
  ClassRefEmitter->>class_ref: Pass class name and constructor table slot
  class_ref->>__classRef: Request the class constructor
  ClassRefEmitter->>__classRef: Construct class value with new
  __classRef->>WASMFunctionTable: Invoke compiled constructor when slot is nonnegative

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Class values on the web target construct instances, work with host instanceof across inheritance, and keep the created instance when a constructor returns no object. No remaining merge-blocking risk is identified.

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- Line 1660: Update the Perry class-constructor path around __padBigintArgs so
constructors are identifiable to __constructHostFunction, and have that helper
pass their arguments through without applying __hostCallback. Preserve Perry
closures as Perry values so compiled constructors can pass them to array_map.
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+      if (new.target === undefined) {
+        throw new TypeError(`Class constructor ${className} cannot be invoked without 'new'`);
+      }
+      const self = __classInstance(className);


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Add Symbol.hasInstance to the constructors returned by __classRef.

Host JavaScript that holds a __classRef constructor sees false for new C() instanceof C. This also applies to instances returned by a compiled constructor that returns this. The objects come from __classInstance, which does not link them to ctor.prototype. Compiled instanceof is not affected. It passes a static type name to class_instanceof, which checks the __class__ chain.

Define a Symbol.hasInstance method on each constructor that __classRef creates. The method should apply the same __class__ chain walk as class_instanceof, so host and compiled checks return the same result.

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On --target web `Expr::ClassRef` emitted `undefined`, so a class held in a variable or an object (`const KK = K; new KK()`, `{ C }`) was undefined and `new` on it threw. ClassRef now calls the `class_ref` bridge, which returns one host constructor per class: `new` on it builds the `{__class__}` instance `new K()` builds and runs the compiled constructor from its table slot. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUQanVsnitcrmYLAWWPc3p

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new_dynamic constructs a class value through __constructHostFunction, which wrapped every argument with __hostCallback, so a Perry closure reached the compiled constructor as a host function and the array bridges rejected it (`[1, 2].map(cb)` gave []). Constructors made by __classRef are now marked and get their arguments unconverted. Instances are {__class__} objects not linked to ctor.prototype, so host `instanceof` on a __classRef constructor was always false. Give it a Symbol.hasInstance that walks the class table like class_instanceof. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUQanVsnitcrmYLAWWPc3p

raliclo · 2026-11-14T10:07:19Z

Review follow-up (rebased onto main 5608505, head 49dcfa7):

wasm_runtime.js:1660, closure argument to a class-value constructor: valid, fixed. __constructHostFunction mapped every argument through __hostCallback, so the compiled constructor received a host function. array_map then rejected it because it has no funcIdx, and [1, 2].map(cb) returned []. Constructors made by __classRef now go into a __perryClassCtors WeakSet, and __constructHostFunction passes their arguments through unconverted. New test a_class_value_constructor_receives_a_closure_argument checks that new MM(cb) with [1, 2].map(cb) gives 10,20. Mutation check: with only the pass-through reverted, the test fails ("").

wasm_runtime.js:1657, Symbol.hasInstance on __classRef constructors: valid, fixed. Each constructor now defines Symbol.hasInstance. It walks obj.__class__ through classParentTable, the same walk class_instanceof uses. New test host_instanceof_on_a_class_value_walks_the_class_chain runs host-side JS after boot: a subclass instance is an instance of its parent and of its own class, a parent instance is not an instance of the subclass, and a plain object and a number are not instances. Mutation check: with only hasInstance removed, the test fails (false false false false false).

Both mutations were restored, and the file's shasum matches the version committed here. An end-to-end run of perry compile --target web on the closure-argument case prints the same output as node --experimental-strip-types.

Local gates, each run on this branch and on main 5608505: cargo test --release -p perry-codegen-wasm passes. rustfmt --check is clean on the changed .rs files. cargo clippy -p perry-codegen-wasm adds no new warnings. run_wasm_tests.sh gives 30/3 on both, with the same failing tests (04_functions, 10_higher_order, 19_ffi_imports). run_lint_gates.sh (SKIP_COMPILE_GATES=1) has 20 FAILs on both, and the FAIL set is identical.

CI: warnings and lint are also red on PRs that touch no wasm code:

fix: keep an array aggregate materialized when an in-place mutator names it (#12742) #14660 fails warnings on crates/perry-codegen/src/module/unit_graph.rs:57 "variable does not need to be mutable" (job log checked). It also fails lint.
fix: Promise.resolve(p).then(..) resolves p through PromiseResolve when p has an own constructor (#13556) #14662 (perry-runtime only) fails all 12 gap-suite shards, lint and warnings.

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+      if (ctorIdx < 0) return self;
+      const impl = wasmInstance.exports.__indirect_function_table.get(ctorIdx);
+      const padded = __padBigintArgs(impl, 1, args.map(__jsValueToBits));
+      return __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded));


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Preserve the instance when a constructor returns no object.

The class-value constructor returns the compiled constructor's result directly. A bare return; in a constructor compiles to undefined, so the wrapper returns undefined. The engine then returns its own this object, which lacks the initialized fields and __class__. This happens for any class-value construction whose constructor takes an early bare return. Only ECMAScript-object results should replace the instance. Other results should fall back to self.

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const padded = __padBigintArgs(impl, 1, args.map(__jsValueToBits)); - return __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded)); + const result = __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded)); + // A constructor that returns no object yields the instance it was given. + return result !== null && (typeof result === 'object' || typeof result === 'function') ? result : self;

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return __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded));

const result = __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded));

// A constructor that returns no object yields the instance it was given.

return result !== null && (typeof result === 'object' || typeof result === 'function') ? result : self;

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…ctor returns an object The __classRef constructor returned the compiled constructor's result as is, so a constructor that took a bare `return;` made `new` yield undefined and the engine fell back to its own uninitialized `this`, without fields or __class__. Per [[Construct]], only an object result replaces the instance; anything else yields the instance it built. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CUQanVsnitcrmYLAWWPc3p

raliclo · 2026-11-14T15:30:15Z

Re the CodeRabbit point on wasm_runtime.js:1664 (constructor result replacing the instance): valid, fixed in c2b37b1.

__classRef's constructor now keeps the compiled constructor's result only when it is an object or function, per [[Construct]]. For undefined (a bare return;), null and primitives it returns the {__class__} instance it built. I also dropped the header comment's claim that the compiled constructor "returns this", since it doesn't always.
New test a_class_value_constructor_returning_no_object_yields_the_instance (emit/tests.rs) covers an early bare return (fields, method, instanceof intact), a constructor that runs to the end, and one that returns an object (that object replaces the instance). Expected output comes from Node 26.12.1.
Before the fix the test fails (undefined undefined false 2 5 false) and after it passes. Mutation check: reverting only wasm_runtime.js makes it fail again; restoring it gives a shasum identical to the original.
Gates, compared with the PR base 5608505: cargo test -p perry-codegen-wasm 80/80; wasm integration suite 30 pass / 3 fail, the same three as base (04_functions, 10_higher_order, 19_ffi_imports); rustfmt clean on the changed file; clippy warnings for the crate unchanged (11 → 11); run_lint_gates.sh (SKIP_COMPILE_GATES) has the same FAIL set as base.

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WeakMap subclasses: wrong prototype for default subclasses; super()/new.target receivers miss the WeakMap brand #12396

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-      return __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded));
+      const result = __bitsToJsValue(__invokeWasmCallback(impl, __jsValueToBits(self), ...padded));
+      // A constructor that returns no object yields the instance it was given.
+      return result !== null && (typeof result === 'object' || typeof result === 'function') ? result : self;

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