rtg2typematch
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Name

rtg2typematch — generates a set of Stratego strategies for typechecking terms against a regular tree grammar (RTG)

Synopsis

rtg2typematch [-i file | --input file] [-o file | --output file] [-b] [-S | --silent] [--verbose level] [-k level | --keep level] [-h | -? | --help] [--about] [--version]

Description

The rtg2typematch utility is used to generate a collection of Stratego strategies with can be used to typecheck terms against a regular tree grammar.

The regular tree grammar is derived from the syntax definition, so the strategies generated by rtg2typematch are useful for checking the well-formedness of a term against a particular SDF grammar.

Options

Common Input/Output Options

-i file

The input term given by the file name file.

In the absence of the -i option, input will be read from stdin.

-o file

The output will be written to the file given by the file name file.

In the absence of the -o option, output will be written to stdout.

-b

The output will be written in the binary (BAF) ATerm format.

ATerms in the BAF format require a lot less space than ones in the TAF format, but the Java ATerm library does not currently support baf ATerms. ATerms in the baf format is the preferred format of exchange between Stratego tools.

Common Debugging Options

--about

See --version.

-h, -?, --help

Display usage information.

--keep int

Keep intermediate results produced by the internal stages in the pretty-printing process. This is only useful for debugging. A high value of int indicates increased eagerness for keeping intermediate results.

Default setting is 0, indicating that no intermediates will be kept.

-S, --silent

Silent execution. Same as --verbose 0.

--verbose int

Set verbosity level to numerical value int. The higher the number, the more information about pp-aterm's inner workings are printed.

Alternatively, int can be set to either of the following verbosity levels, given in increasing order of verbosity: emergency, alert, critical, error, warning, notice, info, debug, vomit.

--version

Displays the tool name and version.

Example

Consider the regular tree grammar given below (the exciting part about how we created this from an SDF definition can be gleaned from the example for sdf2rtg): 

regular tree grammar
start Exp
productions
  Exp      -> Minus(Exp,Exp)
  Exp      -> Plus(Exp,Exp)
  Exp      -> Mod(Exp,Exp)
  Exp      -> Div(Exp,Exp)
  Exp      -> Mul(Exp,Exp)
  Exp      -> Int(IntConst)
  Exp      -> Var(Id)
  IntConst -> <string>
  Id       -> <string>

We run rtg2typematch as shown below, to obtain the following Stratego module. Assume the regular tree grammar above is stored in Exp.rtg. 

$ rtg2typematch -i Exp.rtg -o Exp-typematch.rtg
module Exp-typematch
strategies
  is-Exp =
    ?Minus(_, _)
    + ?Plus(_, _)
      + ?Mod(_, _)
        + ?Div(_, _)
          + ?Mul(_, _)
            + ?Int(_)
              + ?Var(_)

  is-IntConst =
    is-string

  is-Id =
    is-string

From inspecting the generated code, we see that is-Exp can be used to check whether a term is of sort Exp. Notice that the generated code only looks at the name of the constructor. If the same constructor can be used to produce different sorts, the typematch strategy of all these sort will accept a term that is an application of this constructor.

Reporting Bugs

Please report bugs to

Copyright

Copyright (C) 2002-2005 Eelco Visser

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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