Due: Friday, February 20th, 2015, noon
Add struct and get forms for records, and also add a set form that modifies the value of a record field:
<RFAE> = <number>
| {+ <RFAE> <RFAE>}
| {- <RFAE> <RFAE>}
| {fun {<id>} <RFAE>}
| {<RFAE> <RFAE>} ;; function application
| <id>
| {with {<id> <RFAE>} <RFAE>} ;; shorthand for fun & app
| {struct {<id> <RFAE>} ...} ;; all fields must be distinct
| {get <RFAE> <id>}
| {set <RFAE> <id> <RFAE>}
| {seqn <RFAE> <RFAE>}A struct form allocates a new record. A get form accesses from the record produced by the sub-expression the value of the field named by the identifier. A set form changes the record produced by the first sub-expression. Specifically, the field named by the identifier becomes the value of the second sub-expression. The original (now clobbered) value must be the result of the set expression.
Each of struct, get, and set evaluate all of their sub-expressions before doing the corresponding operations.
Also extend parse to support the new operations; note that the fields must be distinct, but that the tester doesn't supply any struct expressions with duplicate fields.
Define the usual interp-expr, which takes an expression and interprets it with an empty initial deferred substitution and empty initial store, and returns either a number, 'procedure, or 'struct (without returning the store).
Your implementation must not use mutation at the PLAI level.
Some examples (these are just a few to think about; this does not constitute anything near a comprehensive test suite):
(test/exn (interp-expr (parse '{struct {z {get {struct {z 0}} y}}}))
"unknown field")
(test (interp-expr (parse '{{fun {r}
{get r x}}
{struct {x 1}}}))
1)
(test (interp-expr (parse '{{fun {r}
{seqn
{set r x 5}
{get r x}}}
{struct {x 1}}}))
5)
(test (interp-expr (parse `{set {struct {x 42}} x 2}))
42)
(test (interp-expr (parse '{{{{{fun {g}
{fun {s}
{fun {r1}
{fun {r2}
{+ {get r1 b}
{seqn
{{s r1} {g r2}}
{+ {seqn
{{s r2} {g r1}}
{get r1 b}}
{get r2 b}}}}}}}}
{fun {r} {get r a}}} ; g
{fun {r} {fun {v} {set r b v}}}} ; s
{struct {a 0} {b 2}}} ; r1
{struct {a 3} {b 4}}})) ; r2
5)If you used the same strategy we did in class for implementing the store, this program:
{with {b {struct {x 1}}}
{with {f {fun {f}
{seqn {set b x 2}
{f f}}}}
{f f}}}will (eventually) consume all of the memory available because the store grows without bound. Adjust your implementation so that the store's size is proportional only to the number of struct expressions that were evaluated, not to the number of set operations.To help you experiment with your interpreter, use this function:
;; size : any -> number
;; computes a (very rough!) approximate to
;; the size a PLAI object takes in memory
(define (size s)
(cond
[(struct? s)
(size (struct->vector s))]
[(vector? s)
(for/fold ([tot 0])
([ele (in-vector s)])
(+ tot (size ele)))]
[(pair? s)
(+ 1 (size (car s)) (size (cdr s)))]
[else 1]))Something like this:;; interp : RFAE DefrdSub Store -> Value*Store
(define (interp a-rfae ds store)
(printf "size ~s\n" (size store))
(type-case RFAE a-rfae
...)There are five different kinds of errors that can occur (at runtime) in this language and for each error in the input program, your interpreter must signal an error that includes one of the following phrases:
free identifier application expected procedure numeric operation expected number record operation expected record unknown field
Your parser will be supplied only well-formed RFAE programs, according to the grammar above.
Provide a definition of interp-expr : RFAE -> number or 'procedure or 'struct, as above.
Provide a definition of parse : sexpression -> RFAE, as usual (no extra n-ary functions this time, but do include with as a parser transformation)
Do not include any useless code in your handed in assignment. That is, if you start with you previous assignment's code, remove code that implemented features from previous assignments that are not present in this one.
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