Aclove

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A programming language based on combinatory logic and term rewrite systems, with an advanced type system.

Copyright (C) 2020--2024 Samuele Giraudo - giraudo.samuele@uqam.ca -

Quick overview

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First examples

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Versions

Here is the changelog of the different versions.

Dependencies

The following programs or libraries are needed:

• pkg-config
• make
• ocaml (Version >= 5.0.0. An inferior but not too old version may be suitable.)
• opam
• ocamlbuild (Available by opam install ocamlbuild.)
• ocamlfind (Available by opam install ocamlfind.)
• extlib (Available by opam install extlib.)
• zarith (Available by opam install zarith.)
• menhir (Available by opam install menhir.)

Building

Here are the required steps to build the interpreter aclove:

1. Clone the repository somewhere by running git clone https://github.com/SamueleGiraudo/Aclove.git.

2. Install all dependencies (see the section above).

3. Build the project by running make noassert.

This creates an executable aclove. The following sections explain how to use it.

User guide

This page contains the description of the Aclove language.

Aclove program files must have .acl as extension. The main command is

./aclove [--help] [--version] --file PATH [--verbose LVL] [--no-rules] [--no-shadows] [--short-names]

where

• --help prints the short help.
• --version prints the version and other information.
• --file PATH sets PATH as the path to the Aclove program to consider.
• --verbose LVL enables the verbose mode at level LVL from 0 (nothing) to 2 (full). By default, the level is 1.
• --no-rules drops the rules of the result expression.
• --no-shadows drops the shadows (that are, types) of the result expression.
• --short-names keeps only the last part of the variable and constant names of the result expression.

Standard library

The standard library contains some useful definitions.

Documentation of the standard library

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Miscellaneous

To get the syntax highlighting in the text editor vim for the Aclove language, put the file acl.vim at ~/.vim/syntax/acl.vim and the file acl.vim at ~/.vim/fdetect/acl.vim.

Theoretical aspects

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Bibliography

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