Prefer explicit construction to coercion in record initialization

While we support initializing records via coercion from an expression
list, e.g.,

    local x: X = [$x1=1, $x2=2];

this can sometimes obscure the code to readers, e.g., when assigning to
value declared and typed elsewhere. The language runtime has a similar
overhead since instead of just constructing a known type it needs to
check at runtime that the coercion from the expression list is valid;
this can be slower than just writing the readible code in the first
place, see #4559.

With this patch we use explicit construction, e.g.,

    local x = X($x1=1, $x2=2);
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Benjamin Bannier 2025-07-10 09:42:44 +02:00 committed by Christian Kreibich
parent 54f9e45597
commit d5fd29edcd
139 changed files with 786 additions and 788 deletions

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@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ redef likely_server_ports += { ports };
event zeek_init() &priority=5
{
Analyzer::register_for_ports(Analyzer::ANALYZER_SNMP, ports);
Log::create_stream(SNMP::LOG, [$columns=SNMP::Info, $ev=log_snmp, $path="snmp", $policy=log_policy]);
Log::create_stream(SNMP::LOG, Log::Stream($columns=SNMP::Info, $ev=log_snmp, $path="snmp", $policy=log_policy));
}
function init_state(c: connection, h: SNMP::Header): Info