54 lines
1.5 KiB
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54 lines
1.5 KiB
Org Mode
* Introduction
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Write a static analyzer for ruby.
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Used an existing parser for ruby called `ruby-parse`.
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`ruby-parse` can generate an AST in JSON format.
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This made the task of writing a ruby parser simpler: Haskell comes
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with a great JSON parser. So we just have to specify how to convert
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from the AST defined by `ruby-parse` to our own AST.
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* Implementation
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** ADTs
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*** Purpose
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Defining an Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) for Ruby using Algebraic Data
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Types (ADTs).
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*** Example
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-- Value represents any JSON data (object, string, number, null, array)
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Args = Value
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Name = Value
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Block = [Definition]
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Definition = Module | Function | Send
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Namespace = [Name]
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Send = {args : Args, namespace : Namespace, name :: Name}
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Module = {name : Name, block : Block}
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Function = {name : Name, args : Args, block :: Block}
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*** Live coding
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Define `Function`
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** Higher-order types
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Missing a good example here.
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** Type classes
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*** Purpose
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Be able to concert unstructured JSON data into our ADT.
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*** Example
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Consider the class
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class FromJSON a where
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parseJSON :: Value -> Parser a
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It's saying that `a` is convertible from json if there is a function
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`parseJSON` that takes a (json) `Value` and returns a `Parser a`.
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`Parser a` can be thought of as a procedure for generating a value of
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type `a`.
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So for instance. The monomorphic type `Parser Function` is a
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procedure that generates a value of type `Function`:
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*** Live coding
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Define an instance for `FromJSON` for `Function`.
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