Initial unfinished work on generic functions

src/frontend/compiler.nim

@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ type
         case kind: TypeKind:
             of Function:
                 name: string
+                # Unfortunately we need to pollute
+                # the type system with AST nodes due
+                # to how we handle generics
+                funNode: FunDecl
                 isLambda: bool
                 isGenerator: bool
                 isCoroutine: bool
@@ -946,6 +950,15 @@ proc generateCall(self: Compiler, fn: Name, args: seq[Expression]) =
     if fn.valueType.isBuiltinFunction:
         self.handleBuiltinFunction(fn, args)
         return
+    if any(fn.valueType.args, proc (arg: tuple[name: string, kind: Type]): bool = arg[1].kind == Generic):
+        # The function has generic arguments! We need to compile a version
+        # of it with the right type data
+
+        # We don't want to cause *any* interference to
+        # other objects, so we just play it safe
+        var node = fn.valueType.funNode.deepCopy()
+        for argument in node.arguments:
+
     self.emitFunction(fn)
     self.emitByte(LoadReturnAddress)
     let pos = self.chunk.code.len()
@@ -1080,9 +1093,9 @@ proc declareName(self: Compiler, node: Declaration, mutable: bool = false) =
                                 owner: self.currentModule,
                                 valueType: Type(kind: Function,
                                         name: node.name.token.lexeme,
-                                        returnType: self.inferType(
-                                        node.returnType),
-                                        args: @[]),
+                                        returnType: self.inferType(node.returnType),
+                                        args: @[],
+                                        funNode: node),
                                 codePos: self.chunk.code.len(),
                                 name: node.name,
                                 isLet: false,
@@ -1687,7 +1700,7 @@ proc funDecl(self: Compiler, node: FunDecl) =
     ## Compiles function declarations
     var function = self.currentFunction
     self.declareName(node)
-    if node.generics.len() > 0:
+    if node.generics.len() < 0:
         # We can't know the type of
         # generic arguments yet, so
         # we wait for the function to