mruby-string-ext: carry String#succ across characters and step the Unicode letters and digits - #7288
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…8 by code point `str_succ_bang()` walked the string by bytes whatever the build read it as, and it stepped a single non-alphanumeric byte and stopped: a wrap never carried into the byte before it, an alphanumeric run never carried across a non-alphanumeric one, and the last byte of a multibyte UTF-8 character went up on its own, which spells no character. ```ruby "a-z".succ # CRuby: "b-a", mruby: "a-aa" "1.9".succ # CRuby: "2.0", mruby: "1.10" "\xff\xff".b.succ # CRuby: "\x01\x00\x00", mruby: "\x01\xFF\x00" "\x7f".succ # CRuby: "\x01\x00", mruby: "\x80" "ÿ".succ # CRuby: "Ā", mruby: "\xC3\xC0" "aÿ".succ # CRuby: "aĀ", mruby: "bÿ" "\xff".succ # CRuby: "\x01\xFF", mruby: "\x01\x00" ``` Rewrite it after CRuby's `str_succ()`. The walk goes character by character from the end: by byte for a binary string and on a build without `MRB_UTF8_STRING`, by UTF-8 character otherwise, stepping over a run of bytes that spells no character. The rightmost ASCII alphanumeric steps; one that wraps carries into the alphanumeric before it across whatever is not one, except that a letter does not carry into a digit nor a digit into a letter. A string with no alphanumeric steps its last character instead: a byte to the next byte, with 0xFF wrapping to 0x00; a UTF-8 character to the next code point that has the same byte length, over the surrogates, wrapping to the first character of that length where the next would take one more. When everything that could carry has wrapped, the carry goes in before the leftmost character that did. CRuby asks the encoding what a letter or digit is, so a Unicode letter steps within its script there and wraps at the script's end. mruby carries no such table; a UTF-8 character above ASCII counts as a letter when the next code point is a character of the same byte length. That steps `"aÿ"` to `"aĀ"` and `"1あ"` to `"1ぃ"` as CRuby does; where CRuby skips a gap in a script or wraps at its end, or where the character is punctuation, this steps to the next code point instead: ```ruby "ת".succ # CRuby: "אא", mruby: "" "a、".succ # CRuby: "b、", mruby: "a。" ``` The `"\xff".succ` line in the tests fixed the byte answer for every build; a UTF-8 string that spells no character keeps its bytes and takes the carry in front, so that line now branches on the build's encoding, and the new cases cover the carry, the ASCII rules, and the UTF-8 length boundaries.
`str_succ_bang` returned an empty receiver before `mrb_str_modify`, so `"".freeze.succ!` came back unchanged where every other frozen receiver raises. CRuby checks first and raises for the empty string too. ```ruby "".freeze.succ! # CRuby: FrozenError (can't modify frozen String: "") # mruby before: "" # mruby after: FrozenError (can't modify frozen String: "") ``` The check now precedes the length test.
The carry crosses non-alphanumeric characters but does not cross from a letter into a digit or the other way; `"1-z".succ` is `"1-aa"`, not `"2-a"`. The tests already pin this; the README did not say it.
`String#succ` steps the rightmost letter or digit of a string and wraps it at the end of its own run, so it has to know which of the two a codepoint is and where the run it belongs to starts. Above ASCII that answer is Unicode's, and the gem carries no table to read it from. Generate one beside the gem, out of the same character database every other table comes from and through `tools/unicode/ctype_data.rb`, the one place that reads it, which already spells both properties: the letters are Alphabetic and the digits the decimal digits, which is what CRuby's `enc_succ_alnum_char()` asks its encoding for. `str_alnum.h` is 1635 runs, 6540 bytes, one 32-bit entry per run holding the codepoint it starts at and which of the two kinds it holds. Nothing is both, so a run is as long as its kind goes, which is the run a wrap goes back to. Registering the generator in `UNICODE_GENERATORS` puts it under `rake unicode:generate` and `rake unicode:verify` with the rest, so a version bump regenerates it beside its neighbours rather than leaving it behind. Nothing reads the table yet.
… run `String#succ` had no answer above ASCII for which characters are letters and which are digits, so a UTF-8 string stepped its last character to the next code point of the same byte length whatever that was. That reads `"ÿ"` to `"Ā"` as CRuby does and `"ת"` to `""`, where CRuby wraps to the start of the Hebrew letters and carries one in, `"אא"`. Read `str_alnum.h` instead, so the walk asks what CRuby's `enc_succ_alnum_char()` asks its encoding, and answer it the way CRuby does: step to the next one of the kind, over one code point that is not of it, which is what takes `"Ρ"` to `"Σ"` over the unassigned U+03A2; wrap to the start of the run and carry a character of it where nothing of the kind is left; and step nothing where a character is alone in its run, as U+00AA is between U+00A9 and U+00AB. The carry of such a wrap is a character of that run rather than an ASCII letter, so what goes in front once everything has wrapped is as wide as it is: ```ruby "ת".succ #=> "אא" "ｚ".succ #=> "ａａ" "٩".succ #=> "١٠" ``` What a wrap asks before it carries is CRuby's question, and CRuby reads the bytes to ask it: a letter does not carry into a digit nor a digit into a letter, and neither holds a character above ASCII back, since neither `ISALPHA()` nor `ISDIGIT()` answers for a lead byte. Asking it as CRuby asks it is what lets `"aｚ".succ` be `"bａ"` rather than `"aａ"`. A build carrying no table, one that reads its strings as bytes or one narrowed by `MRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE`, has no letter and no digit above ASCII. That is the trade `MRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE` already makes for case: `"aÿ".succ` is `"bÿ"` there and `"1あ".succ` is `"2あ"`. Every code point from U+0000 to U+10FFFF, alone and behind each of eight characters chosen to land the carry on something different, steps to what CRuby 4.0.6 steps it to: 10,008,576 cases with no difference.
The gem README said mruby carries no table of which characters above ASCII are letters and which are digits, and listed where that left it beside CRuby. It carries one now, so what there is to say is what the table answers and which builds go without it. `mrbconf.md` gets the same two sides beside the case and the brackets it already names, and names the table `MRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE` drops with the two it already lists.
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ChangesUnicode String succession
Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to String#succ gains Unicode-aware stepping, but the current scan can return incorrect successors for characters separated from the next letter or digit run by larger Unicode gaps. Merge should wait for that bounded correctness issue to be fixed or explicitly accepted by the owner. Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant StringSucc as String#succ
participant SuccBang as str_succ_bang
participant AlnumTable as str_alnum_runs
participant Receiver as String receiver
StringSucc->>SuccBang: advance the string suffix
SuccBang->>AlnumTable: classify Unicode alphanumeric codepoints
AlnumTable-->>SuccBang: return run classification
SuccBang->>Receiver: write stepped characters and carry bytes
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6-9: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low valueConsider probing the alphanumeric table directly.
UNICODEALNUMderives fromUNICODECASE, which probes case conversion. The two features share the same build condition today,MRB_UTF8_STRINGwithoutMRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE, and the comment records that. If the two conditions ever diverge, the gating selects the wrong block and the failure will point at case conversion rather than atString#succ.A direct probe removes the coupling.
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-# Which characters above ASCII are letters and digits is a table compiled under -# the pair the case tables are, MRB_UTF8_STRING without MRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE, so -# what answers for the one answers for the other. -UNICODEALNUM = UNICODECASE +# Which characters above ASCII are letters and digits is a table compiled under +# the pair the case tables are, MRB_UTF8_STRING without MRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE. +# Probe the table itself: U+05EA is the last Hebrew letter, so it wraps to +# U+05D0 with a carry only where the table is compiled in. +UNICODEALNUM = "\u05EA".succ == "\u05D0\u05D0"🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/src/string.c`:
- Around line 1053-1059: Update the scan loop in succ_alnum to continue across
arbitrary intervening codepoints until a matching alphanumeric run is found or
the successor search terminates, instead of limiting it to two iterations.
Preserve the existing succ_next_cp, succ_alnum_run, and succ_utf8_write flow and
return behavior once a valid successor is found.
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- Around line 6-9: Update the String extension test setup so UNICODEALNUM is
determined by directly probing alphanumeric behavior rather than deriving it
from UNICODECASE; keep the existing build-condition coverage and ensure failures
identify String#succ/alphanumeric handling independently from case conversion.
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| for (step = 0, next = cp; step < 2; step++) { | ||
| mrb_int at; | ||
| next = succ_next_cp(next); | ||
| if (succ_alnum_run(next, &at) == kind && succ_utf8_write(p, len, next)) { | ||
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Widen the succ_alnum scan beyond two codepoints. The generated str_alnum.h table contains 423 internal gaps wider than one codepoint between alphabetic or digit runs. For example, U+0378–U+0379 separates runs at U+0376–U+0377 and U+037A. A two-codepoint scan makes succ_alnum wrap or report no successor instead of advancing to the next run.
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In `@mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/src/string.c` around lines 1053 - 1059, Update the
scan loop in succ_alnum to continue across arbitrary intervening codepoints
until a matching alphanumeric run is found or the successor search terminates,
instead of limiting it to two iterations. Preserve the existing succ_next_cp,
succ_alnum_run, and succ_utf8_write flow and return behavior once a valid
successor is found.
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Replaces #7266, which I closed rather than force-pushed so that the review there
stays beside what was reviewed. The first three commits are that PR's first
three, the same patches rebased onto current master; the rest is the different
table the closing comment described.
Summary
String#succsteps the rightmost letter or digit of a string and wraps it at theend of its own run, carrying into the one before it. On master the walk steps by
byte and the carry stops at the first character that is not alphanumeric, so a
UTF-8 string comes back with the wrong answer and sometimes with bytes that spell
no character:
The first three commits make the walk step by character and carry the way CRuby's
rb_str_succ()carries. The last three answer the question that walk asks aboveASCII, which is which characters are letters and which are digits, out of the
Unicode character database and through the pipeline the other tables already use:
a generator beside the gem, registered in
UNICODE_GENERATORS, so thatrake unicode:verifycovers it and a version bump regenerates it with the rest.With a complete answer
succ_alnum()is CRuby'senc_succ_alnum_char(),including the descent at a wrap, so
"ת".succis"אא"and"aｚ".succis"bａ", and the divergences #7266 documented go away.A build carrying no table, one that reads its strings as bytes or one narrowed by
MRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE, has no letter and no digit above ASCII. That is the tradeMRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPEalready makes for case, and it keeps the punctuation columnof the review's table at 0 without a table of its own.
Changes
succ!checks the receiver before the empty returnstr_alnum.h, generated from the Unicode database, registered inUNICODE_GENERATORSsucc_alnum()reads it, so a letter and a digit step within their own runmrbconf.mdsay what the table answers and which builds go without itThe table
mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/tools/gen_alnum.rbwritesmrbgems/mruby-string-ext/src/str_alnum.hfromtools/unicode/ctype_data.rb, theone place that reads the database, which already spells both properties: the
letters are Alphabetic and the digits the decimal digits, the same two
[[:alpha:]]and[[:digit:]]hold. Collapsingre_ctype.h's 3468 runs to thosetwo leaves 1635 runs, 6540 bytes as 32-bit entries: the codepoint a run starts at
in the high 21 bits and which of the two kinds it is in the low 2. Nothing is
both, so a run is as long as its kind goes, which is the run a wrap goes back to.
The header is included only under
MRB_UTF8_STRINGwithoutMRB_USE_ASCII_CTYPE, so the builds that classify by ASCII compile no table atall.
The step
succ_alnum()above ASCII does whatenc_succ_alnum_char()does:it, which is what takes
"Ρ"to"Σ"over the unassigned U+03A2run and carry a character of it in, the first of the run for a letter and the
one after it for a digit, as
"9"carries"1"U+00A9 and U+00AB
The carry can be a character rather than a byte, so what goes in front once
everything has wrapped is as wide as it is.
One more thing the walk had to take from CRuby: the test a wrap makes before it
carries reads the bytes, and CRuby writes it so that a letter does not carry into
a digit nor a digit into a letter, while a character above ASCII holds neither
back. Without that shape
"aｚ".succis"aａ"rather than"bａ".Behaviour
Four corpora of 600 strings of one to four characters, each drawn from a fixed
pool, in the shape of the measurement in #7266. Diverging lines against
CRuby 4.0.6,
ci/gcc-clangbintest:a m z A M Z 0 5 9 - . _)あ ア 漢 ÿ é Ω ת А Ā)、 。 「 ・ « ¡ × ÷ € §U+3000)The same corpora on the
ascii-ctypebuild, which carries no table: 0, 53, 0,175. The punctuation column stays at master's 0 there as well, and the letters it
cannot answer for are the trade the build already makes for case.
Exhaustively, every codepoint from U+0000 to U+10FFFF except the surrogates,
alone and behind each of eight characters chosen to land the carry on something
different (
a,9,Z,ת,٩,ｚ,-, and itself), stepped and comparedbyte for byte with CRuby 4.0.6: 10,008,576 cases, no difference.
Speed
1,000,000
succcalls, seconds, the minimum of six alternating rounds,ci/gcc-clangbintest. The middle column is the first three commits, so thatwhat the table costs is separate from what the walk costs.
"abcdefghij")"az")"あ")"ת")"a、")ASCII is where the walk is faster than master. Above ASCII the lookup is a binary
search over 1635 runs, twice where the step lands and three times where it wraps,
which is 25 ns a call for a step and 50 ns for a wrap.
Size
.textand.rodataofbin/mruby,build_config/ci/gcc-clang.rb, each sidefrom a clean build directory at the same path. Only
mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/src/string.ochanges, and its.textdelta is thebinary's in the optimised builds (to within 14 bytes at
-O0). The middle columnis the first three commits again, so that the two halves are separate.
bintestascii-ctypebyte-stringcxx_abifull-debug(-O0).rodata, which is where the table lands:bintestascii-ctypebyte-stringcxx_abifull-debug(-O0)Most of the
.textis the walk rather than the table: ofbintest's +896, thefirst three commits are +608 and reading the table is +288. The byte build is
smaller than master for the same reason, all of it from the walk, since neither
the table nor the lookup is compiled there.
The table itself is the 6,540 bytes a build reading Unicode pays in
.rodata.The 32 an
ascii-ctypebuild pays are the byte-length table a wrap shares withthe character step, which used to be a local static inside the latter and is a
file scope one now.
Testing
rake -m testwithbuild_config/ci/gcc-clang.rb:full-debug,bintest(with its bintests),
cxx_abi,byte-string,ascii-ctype. All green, nocompiler warning.
rake unicode:verify: the committed tables,str_alnum.hamong them, are whatthe Unicode 17.0.0 database generates.
mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/test/string.rb: what a letter and adigit above ASCII step to, what a wrap carries in and where it lands, the step
over one codepoint that is not of the kind, and a character alone in its run.
A second block holds what the builds without the table answer for the same
strings, so both sides are covered rather than one skipped.
Environment
Details
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mrbgems/mruby-string-ext/src/string.cin the builds quotedabove, paths shortened:
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New Features
String#succandString#nextwith Unicode-aware handling of letters and digits.Documentation