Move the macro registry to MTMathAtomFactory - #274
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR adds a public macro definition model and centralized registry. Built-in macros move from ChangesLaTeX macro registry
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to This change adds application-defined macros and documents that they shadow built-in commands, but the current implementation may dispatch some built-in commands first, and template validation still permits unsupported parameter placement while rejecting valid literal hashes. Merge should wait for these bounded correctness issues to be fixed or explicitly accepted. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant MacroClient
participant MTMathAtomFactory
participant MTMathListBuilder
MacroClient->>MTMathAtomFactory: Register macro definition
MTMathAtomFactory->>MTMathAtomFactory: Validate and store template
MTMathListBuilder->>MTMathAtomFactory: Look up command definition
MTMathAtomFactory-->>MTMathListBuilder: Return MTMacroDefinition
MTMathListBuilder->>MTMathListBuilder: Expand template or report invalid command
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In `@iosMath/lib/MTMathAtomFactory.m`:
- Around line 1078-1108: Replace the character-based validation in
template:referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo: with parsing through MTMathListBuilder and
validation of actual top-level MTMacroParameterAtom instances, allowing literal
hashes while rejecting nested parameters and indexes above argumentCount. Ensure
the macro registry is initialized before validation in addMacro:, and add tests
covering a color template with a literal hash and a nested parameter atom.
In `@iosMathTests/MTModularArithmeticTest.m`:
- Around line 496-503: Update the macro validation test around MTMacroDefinition
so it retains the range check for every discovered top-level parameter but
removes the later seen.count == def.argumentCount exact-coverage assertion,
allowing definitions whose bodies ignore declared arguments.
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| + (BOOL) template:(NSString*) templateString referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo:(NSUInteger) argumentCount | ||
| { | ||
| for (NSUInteger i = 0; i + 1 < templateString.length; i++) { | ||
| if ([templateString characterAtIndex:i] != '#') { | ||
| continue; | ||
| } | ||
| unichar digit = [templateString characterAtIndex:i + 1]; | ||
| if (digit < '1' || digit > '9' || (NSUInteger)(digit - '0') > argumentCount) { | ||
| return NO; | ||
| } | ||
| i++; | ||
| } | ||
| return YES; | ||
| } | ||
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| + (void) addMacro:(NSString*) name | ||
| argumentCount:(NSUInteger) argumentCount | ||
| template:(NSString*) templateString | ||
| { | ||
| NSParameterAssert(name); | ||
| NSParameterAssert(templateString); | ||
| NSAssert(argumentCount <= 9, @"\\%@ declares %lu arguments; a macro can take at most 9", | ||
| name, (unsigned long)argumentCount); | ||
| NSAssert([self template:templateString referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo:argumentCount], | ||
| @"Template for \\%@ references an argument beyond its %lu declared argument(s): %@", | ||
| name, (unsigned long)argumentCount, templateString); | ||
| // Same setup-time contract as +addLatexSymbol:value: — the table is read | ||
| // unguarded once initialized. Do not call this while parsing on another thread. | ||
| [self macros][name] = [[MTMacroDefinition alloc] initWithArgumentCount:argumentCount | ||
| templateString:templateString]; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Validate parsed top-level parameter atoms.
The character scan rejects valid templates such as @"\\color{#f00}{#1}" because it treats #f as an invalid parameter. It also accepts #1 inside a nested list, although MTMathListBuilder only substitutes top-level parameter atoms. That macro then consumes an argument and leaves the nested #1 literal.
Initialize the registry before validation. Parse the template and validate the actual MTMacroParameterAtom locations and indexes. Allow literal hashes. Reject parameter atoms below the template top level or above argumentCount. Add tests for both cases.
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In `@iosMath/lib/MTMathAtomFactory.m` around lines 1078 - 1108, Replace the
character-based validation in template:referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo: with parsing
through MTMathListBuilder and validation of actual top-level
MTMacroParameterAtom instances, allowing literal hashes while rejecting nested
parameters and indexes above argumentCount. Ensure the macro registry is
initialized before validation in addMacro:, and add tests covering a color
template with a literal hash and a nested parameter atom.
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Partly acting, in PR #275 rather than here.
Literal hashes — real, and the \color{#f00} example checks out. NSColor+HexString.m:26 expands CSS 3-digit shorthand, so that is a valid iosMath color and +template:referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo: rejects the template for it. The TeX-correct spelling is ##, which must collapse to a single # on expansion (TeXbook Ch. 20). That needs both halves — a validator that accepts ##, and a splicer that collapses it — and PR 1 has no splicer: -macroAtomForCommand: hands the template straight to +buildTemplate:, so ## would reach -readColor as two characters and yield the color string ##f00. Relaxing the validator here alone just moves the failure from registration time to render time. PR #275 has the seam (-spliceTemplate:arguments:), so both halves land there together. Same for the trailing-# case from the CLI run.
Nested #N — declining. It is a real restriction today, but PR #275 lands immediately behind this one and replaces top-level-only substitution with raw-text splicing, so #N works anywhere. A validator that rejects nested parameters would be written and deleted in consecutive PRs.
The suggested implementation — declining. Validating parsed MTMacroParameterAtom positions builds on a class PR #275 removes along with the atom-substitution model.
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@kostub, thank you for the detailed analysis.
Your plan for PR #275 is correct. Literal-hash support requires both validation of ## and expansion to a single #. Changing only this validator would defer the failure to color parsing.
Raw-text splicing also removes the current nested-parameter limitation. The parsed-atom validation would not be useful after that change.
I will keep this finding open on this PR because the current implementation still rejects valid literal-hash templates. The coordinated fix belongs in PR #275.
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Learning: In iosMath macro registration, literal TeX hashes must use `##` and macro expansion must collapse them to one `#`. `iosMath/lib/MTMathAtomFactory.m` currently validates templates before expansion, while PR `#275` introduces `-spliceTemplate:arguments:` for raw-text macro substitution. That change also supports `#N` references in nested template content and removes the existing MTMacroParameterAtom-based top-level-only substitution model.
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| NSDictionary<NSString*, MTMacroDefinition*>* macros = [MTMathAtomFactory macros]; | ||
| // A containment check, not an equality one: +addMacro: writes into this same | ||
| // global table and there is no unregister, so a test that registers a macro | ||
| // leaves it there for whatever runs next. | ||
| NSSet<NSString*>* builtins = [NSSet setWithArray:@[ | ||
| @"pmod", @"mod", @"pod", @"implies", @"impliedby", @"iff", @"idotsint", | ||
| @"varliminf", @"varlimsup", @"varinjlim", @"varprojlim" ]]; | ||
| XCTAssertTrue([builtins isSubsetOfSet:[NSSet setWithArray:macros.allKeys]]); |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Do not require every declared argument to appear.
This test now enumerates the application-writable factory registry. The later seen.count == def.argumentCount assertion rejects a legal macro definition whose template ignores an argument. MTMacroDefinition documents that a body may ignore declared arguments.
Keep the range check for each discovered top-level parameter. Remove the exact coverage requirement.
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In `@iosMathTests/MTModularArithmeticTest.m` around lines 496 - 503, Update the
macro validation test around MTMacroDefinition so it retains the range check for
every discovered top-level parameter but removes the later seen.count ==
def.argumentCount exact-coverage assertion, allowing definitions whose bodies
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Declining.
The loop no longer enumerates the global table — after this round it iterates a fixed list of the eleven built-in macros, which is the separate order-dependence problem you are pointing at. For those eleven, seen.count == def.argumentCount is the invariant the test exists to protect: a built-in whose #N drifted into a sub-list would silently render a literal #N, and nothing else would catch it.
You are right that MTMacroDefinition permits a body to ignore a declared argument. The test simply makes no claim about macros other than those eleven, so a caller-registered definition that ignores an argument is never checked here.
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@kostub, I verified the current pull request state.
testEveryRegisteredMacroParses still iterates macros, not builtins:
for (NSString* command in macros) {Therefore, the exact-coverage assertion still applies to caller-registered macros. The fixed-list change described in your reply is not present in the checked-out code. The finding remains open until the loop iterates only the eleven built-in commands.
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Reviewed by reading the diff (4091668..693d029) against the LLD and the PR-1 section of the plan. CI (Build & Test) was still in progress when this was written; CodeRabbit had passed. Nothing below depends on running the suite.
The move itself is clean — MTMacroDefinition and the table land next to +addLatexSymbol:value:/+supportedLatexSymbols with the same shape and the same documented setup-time contract, and -macroAtomForCommand: is a one-line redirect. Three things.
1. +addMacro: documents a contract PR 1 does not deliver, and fails silently when a caller takes it at its word
MTMathAtomFactory.h:130 — "a command that expands to templateString with #1...#9 replaced by the arguments it is invoked with."
That is PR 2's contract, not this one. Substitution here is still top-level only: -[MTMacroAtom expansion] (MTMathList.m:1867) walks templateExpression.atoms and only replaces MTMacroParameterAtoms it finds in that array.
Trigger:
[MTMathAtomFactory addMacro:@"myhat" argumentCount:1 template:@"\\hat{#1}"];
[MTMathListBuilder buildFromString:@"\\myhat{x}"]; // renders a literal "#1" under the hatRegistration succeeds — +template:referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo: checks that the digit is within arity but says nothing about where the #N sits — parsing succeeds, no error is set, and the argument silently vanishes. \hat{#1} and \frac{#1}{#2} are the first two templates anyone writes against this API; the library's own testEveryRegisteredMacroParses encodes the restriction for built-ins ("must reference every declared argument at top level") precisely because of this.
PR 1 merges to master on its own, so "PR 2 fixes it" doesn't cover the window. Two ways out, both smaller than the status quo:
- Keep the
+addMacro:/+macroDefinitionForCommand:declarations (and item 3's test) in PR 2, and let PR 1 be purely the move. The builder can reach the table through the same file-private+macrosit already uses. - Or ship it here with the restriction stated in the doc comment, and extend
+template:referencesOnlyArgumentsUpTo:to reject a#Nthat is not at the template's top level — the check that actually matches what the code does today.
The first is less work and leaves nothing to unwind in PR 2.
2. NSAssert in -macroAtomForCommand: now aborts on caller input
MTMathListBuilder.m:1256-1262 (unchanged by the diff, but this PR is what invalidates it):
MTMathList* templateExpression = [MTMathListBuilder buildTemplate:def.templateString];
// Compile-time constants, so a parse failure here is a programming mistake.
NSAssert(templateExpression, @"Built-in template for \\%@ failed to parse: %@", ...);Templates stopped being compile-time constants the moment +addMacro: went public. Trigger:
[MTMathAtomFactory addMacro:@"bad" argumentCount:0 template:@"\\frac{"];
[MTMathListBuilder buildFromString:@"\\bad"]; // NSAssert fires -> abortAny assertions-enabled build of the host app crashes on a typo in a registered template. Per the repo's own split — NSAssert guards internal invariants, errors are for anything a caller can cause — a template that arrived through public API belongs on the error side, and the if (!templateExpression) block immediately below already handles it correctly.
Fix is a deletion: drop the three NSAssert lines, and reword the two remaining "Built-in template for \\%@" strings to "Template for \\%@". MTParseErrorInternalError is also the wrong code now — it tells the app the library is broken when in fact its own template is; MTParseErrorInvalidCommand (or the sub-parse's own code, which is what PR 2's -parseExpansion:forCommand: does) reports the truth.
3. testEveryRegisteredMacroParses now validates macros other tests registered
MTModularArithmeticTest.m:494-521. The loop enumerates the whole global mutable table, so it validates whatever any earlier test left behind. XCTest orders methods alphabetically within a class, so testAddMacroRegistersAndReplaces always runs first and leaves half → \frac{1}{3} in the table; the loop then asserts things about half. It passes today by luck of that entry being zero-arity.
Concretely: item 7 in the plan registers \myhat = \hat{#1} with argumentCount: 1. That template has no top-level placeholder, so seen.count is 0 and XCTAssertEqual(seen.count, def.argumentCount) fails — in testEveryRegisteredMacroParses, a test that has nothing to do with \myhat. The added comment acknowledges the leak but only defends against it for the count, not for the loop.
The set-containment dance is doing the work of a simpler thing: iterate the names the test actually knows about.
- (void)testEveryRegisteredMacroParses
{
for (NSString* command in @[ @"pmod", @"mod", @"pod", @"implies", @"impliedby", @"iff",
@"idotsint", @"varliminf", @"varlimsup", @"varinjlim",
@"varprojlim" ]) {
MTMacroDefinition* def = [MTMathAtomFactory macroDefinitionForCommand:command];
XCTAssertNotNil(def, @"\\%@ is not registered", command);
// ... existing template/arity checks, unchanged ...
}
}Same coverage — the extra reach was over macros the test cannot make any claim about — order-independent, and it drops both NSSet conversions plus the MTMacroRegistryTesting category at lines 38-42, since the test no longer needs private access to +macros at all.
Nit
MTMathAtomFactory.m:1134 — // \iff, \implies and \impliedby moved to +builtinMacros points at a method this PR deleted. It is +macros on this class now.
+addMacro: makes templates caller-supplied, so a template that fails to parse is no longer a programming mistake. Drop the NSAssert that aborted on it and report MTParseErrorInvalidCommand instead of InternalError. testEveryRegisteredMacroParses iterated the whole registry, which +addMacro: writes into, so it validated whatever an earlier test left behind. Name the eleven built-ins instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CR3o91FfsodPmwJD1s8499
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1148-1148: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winDispatch registered macros before built-in handlers. Move
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490-497: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winAdd regression coverage for command-table shadowing.
This loop verifies built-in definitions but does not prove that an application macro shadows modifier, text-style, and font-style commands. Add focused cases for each dispatch table so a later dispatch reorder cannot break the public
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In `@iosMath/lib/MTMathListBuilder.m`:
- Line 1148: In the command-dispatch logic around macroDefinitionForCommand:,
invoke macroAtomForCommand: before applyModifier:, textStyleWithName:, and
fontStyleWithName: so registered macros take precedence over built-in handlers
such as limits, text, and mathbf. Preserve the existing nil-without-error
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In `@iosMathTests/MTModularArithmeticTest.m`:
- Around line 490-497: Add regression tests alongside the existing built-in
macro checks that register application macros and verify they shadow commands in
each relevant dispatch table: modifier, text-style, and font-style. Use the
public MTMathAtomFactory registration and lookup/parse APIs, and assert the
application definition is selected for representative commands from each table,
preserving coverage against future dispatch-order changes.
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MTMacroDefinitionand the eleven built-in macro entries move fromMTMathListBuildertoMTMathAtomFactory, next to+addLatexSymbol:value:, and apps can now register their own macros with+addMacro:argumentCount:template:.Expansion behaviour is unchanged —
#Nstill substitutes only at the template's top level. Making#Nwork anywhere is PR 2 of this stack.Commits
[item 1]Move MTMacroDefinition to MTMathAtomFactory[item 2]Move the macro table to MTMathAtomFactory and add +addMacro:[item 3]Test macro registration and replacementDesign
docs/plans/2026-08-20-macro-expansion-engine.md(PR 1, items 1-3)docs/lld/2026-08-20-macro-expansion-engine.mdBoth are untracked working documents, not part of this diff.
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+addMacro:argumentCount:template:carries the same setup-time, no-locking contract as+addLatexSymbol:value:: registering a name that already exists replaces it, and because macros are dispatched before every other command table, a macro name shadows a built-in command of the same name. Arity and#N-within-arity areNSAsserted — those are calling-app programming mistakes, not end-user input.testEveryRegisteredMacroParsesbecomes a containment check rather than an equality one, because+addMacro:writes into the same global table and there is no unregister.Summary by CodeRabbit