Save environment in peak class

[rdaly525]

Problem:

We are writing code like the following which uses the family closure to generate types, Instructions, and other local objects. When we call family generator, we lose (easy) access to the generated locals, as the closure only returns the peak class.

def gen_pe(family):
  alu = gen_alu(family)
  Bit = family.Bit
  Data = family.BitVector
  Inst = gen_inst(family)
  #...
  class PE(Peak):
    #Define peak class using the above generated locals

  return PE

Possible solution: Save the generated locals directly in the generated peak class

def gen_pe(family):
  alu = gen_alu(family)
  Bit = family.Bit
  Data = family.BitVector
  Inst = gen_inst(family)
  #...
  local_values = locals()
  class PE(Peak):
     env = dict_to_obj(local_values)
    #Define peak class using the above generated locals

  return PE

PE = gen_pe(BitVector)
Data = PE.env.Data

Ideally there is a syntactically more concise way of getting the same effect.

[leonardt]

Whatever the mechanism, after discussing with @cdonovick I think the right path is to somehow pass locals() and globals() to magma (rather than the current logic which only works if the decorator is at the top level).