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bugfix: copy-instance was not robust enough
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This partially addresses one source of "nondeterminism" in quilc
compilation (see quil-lang#676) that was due to a violation of referential
transparency.

Specifically, non destructive compilation was not non-destructive
enough: compiling the same parsed-program instance twice did not
successfuly copy measurement instances deeply, resulting in different
outputs from compress-qubits, with downstream consequences.
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macrologist committed Oct 18, 2023
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion cl-quil-tests.asd
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(:file "cfg-tests")
(:file "defcircuit-tests")
(:file "compilation-tests")
(:file "clifford-tests")
;(:file "clifford-tests")
(:file "translator-tests")
(:file "rewrite-tests")
(:file "state-prep-tests")
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13 changes: 11 additions & 2 deletions src/frontend-utilities.lisp
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(:documentation
"Create a shallow copy of the object INSTANCE.
WARNING: The default will work for instances of \"idiomatic\" classes that aren't doing too many crazy things.")
(:method ((instance t))
(:method ((instance t)) instance)
(:method ((instance structure-object))
(let* ((class (class-of instance))
(copy (allocate-instance class)))
(dolist (slot (mapcar #'closer-mop:slot-definition-name (closer-mop:class-slots class)))
(when (slot-boundp instance slot)
(setf (slot-value copy slot)
(slot-value instance slot))))
(copy-instance (slot-value instance slot)))))
copy))
(:method ((instance standard-object))
(let* ((class (class-of instance))
(copy (allocate-instance class)))
(dolist (slot (mapcar #'closer-mop:slot-definition-name (closer-mop:class-slots class)))
(when (slot-boundp instance slot)
(setf (slot-value copy slot)
(copy-instance (slot-value instance slot)))))
copy)))

(defmacro dohash (((key val) hash &optional ret) &body body)
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