[FMFP] Interpreters

semester4/fmfp/parts/02_typing/03_interpreter/00_intro.tex

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+\newpage
+\subsection{Interpreters}
+Interpreters are prevalent in programming languages, database systems, text processors, HDLs, search engines, etc.
+
+They are in concept very simple, as they perform three steps read, evaluate, print.
+
+The implementation of one however is not trivial by any stretch of the imagination.

semester4/fmfp/parts/02_typing/03_interpreter/01_read.tex

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+\subsubsection{Read step}
+During this step, text is turned from text into a more easily handlable format
+
+
+\paragraph{Lexical Analysis}
+During lexical analysis, the input is turned into tokens.
+For example: The source code is \texttt{position := initial + rate + 60}
+
+The translation is:
+\begin{multicols}{2}
+    \begin{enumerate}
+        \item Identifier \texttt{position}
+        \item Assignment symbol \texttt{:=}
+        \item Identifier \texttt{initial}
+        \item Addition symbol \texttt{+}
+        \item Identifier \texttt{rate}
+        \item Addition symbol \texttt{+}
+        \item Number \texttt{60}
+    \end{enumerate}
+\end{multicols}
+
+It also removes whitespaces and comments
+
+
+\paragraph{Parsing}
+The tokens are then turned into an abstract syntax tree.
+
+The syntax is specified by a grammar such as:
+\begin{align*}
+    Expr   & ::= Identifier \divider Number \divider Expr\; \texttt{`+`}\; Expr \\
+    Assign & ::= Identifier\; \texttt{`:=`}\; Expr
+\end{align*}
+
+This can also be represented as a haskell type:
+\begin{code}{haskell}
+    data Expr = Identifier Ident | Number Num | Plus Expr Expr
+    data Assign = Assignment Ident Expr
+    type Ident = String
+    type Num = Int
+\end{code}
+
+Since some to be parsed statements are more complex to parse, we may do combinatory parsing.
+
+This is much more powerful as it can handle ambiguous grammars typically found in real programming languages.
+
+We can use for example these parser combinators:
+
+\newpage
+\inputcode{haskell}{code/10_parser.hs}
+
+These are just some of the functions defined.
+You can find a full mini-haskell and lambda-calculus parser on CodeExpert (at the time of writing this that was the case at least)

semester4/fmfp/parts/02_typing/03_interpreter/02_eval.tex

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+\subsection{Evaluation}
+Evaluation is then done using tree traversal as we have already seen in the haskell section.