Lamb

IN THE WHITEEARTH JOURNAL.

A statically typed and lazy evaluated implementation of Lambda Calculus.

SYNOPSIS

lamb [--target {linux|windows}] [-i|-S|-c|--link] [-o FILE] [FILE...] FILE

Tutorials

• A Lamb Tutorial

ENVIRONMENT

LAMB_HOME

The directory where lamb is being installed. default: ~/.lamb

PREREQUISITES

• mlton
• mlyacc
• mllex
• gcc
• x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc

INSTALLATION

$ make -j8
$ make install # to install ~/.lamb
$ export PATH="$HOME/.lamb/bin:$PATH"

LANGUAGE SPECIFICATION

Lexicon

• lexeme ::= ' | ( | ) | -> | . | : | := | ^ | def | in | let | type | val | NAT | CHAR | STRING | ID

Where NAT, CHAR, STRING and ID are classes of lexemes. The classes are defined by regular expressions.

• SPACE: /[\t\n\r ]+/
• COMMENT: /--[^\n]*\n/
• NAT: /[0-9]+/
• CHAR: /'([^\\']|\\.)'/
• STRING: /"([^\\"]|\\.)*"/
• ID: /[A-Z_a-z][A-Z_a-z0-9]*/

SPACE and COMMENT are ignored by lexers.

Grammar

• program ::= decls
• decls ::= ε | decl decls
• decl ::= type ID | val ID : ty | def ID asc := exp
• ty ::= atty | atty -> ty
• atty ::= ' ID | ID | ( ty )
• asc ::= ε | : ty
• exp ::= appexp | ^ ID asc . exp | let ID asc := exp in exp
• appexp ::= atexp | appexp atexp
• atexp ::= NAT | CHAR | STRING | ID | ( exp )

LICENSE

GPLv3.