41 lines
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41 lines
1.3 KiB
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# milly
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milly is an hobby, and should not be taken seriously.
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Interpreter for a Minimal ML-like language whose ideal goal is to be used for bootstrapping compilers and interpreters.
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## How to build
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milly's interpreter is written in portable ISO C11, sources are in `src/` and header files are in `include/`.
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If your system happens to have a `make` implementation compatible with **GNU Make**, you can just run:
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> make
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Otherwise, something like this should work:
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> $(CC) -std=c11 -o milly -Iinclude/ src/*.c
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## The language
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milly is a minimal dialect of Standard ML and Haskell,
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here is a list of the features (or better, limitations) I want to introduce:
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- Keep the implementation <5000 LOC
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- Eager evaluation (call by value)
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- Algebraic Datatypes (pretty useful for representing syntax trees)
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- First class functions
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- Pattern patching (pretty useful for analyzing syntax trees)
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- Integers, booleans, strings
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- Mutable `ref` cell
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- FFI to C
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- Polymorphic types à la Hindley Milner (probably unfeasible)
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- Automatic currying of functions, with optimised partial evaluation (unfeasible)
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- Delimited continuations (this is an overkill)
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- Easy syntax allowing easy kakoune support
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milly's full grammar is specified as a pair of lex and yacc files in `ref_parser/`.
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kakoune plugin for milly is in `extra/milly.kak`.
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