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RefacPwPf
Portability portable
Stability experimental
Maintainer jproenca@di.uminho.pt
Contents
Refactoring
Limitations
Description

Refactoring tool that converts a pointwise to a pointfree expression.

It uses the modules GlobalPW, PWCore, PwPfConversion and Pointfree

Synopsis
Refactoring

Converts an expression in pointwise to pointfree by the following steps:

  1. Reads the expression to be evaluated obtained by programatica's tools;
  2. Tries to convert the expression to a GLTerm by the use of the monadic function exp2Global, in GlobalPW module;
  3. Converts the GLTerm to a PWTerm, which is more general pointwise representation that can be found in module PWCore, by the use of the function global2core;
  4. Converts the PWTerm to a PFTerm, which is a pointfree expression, by the use of the function core2Pf;
  5. Writes the resulting pointfree expression into an expression of programatica's abstract syntax tree, by the use of the function pf2Exp.
Limitations

This refactoring is not complete, since only the grammar specified for the function exp2Global can be recognized, and later translated into a pointfree expression.

There are also some limitations. Some of them are presented bellow.

  • Types inside IN, OUT and PARA have the type information correct, but the variable "_L" sometimes don't have the correct location information, and lists are represented by [a], where the letter a may already be bounded;
  • The source location information is ignored in most cases, since the expression is completely changed;
  • Scope information is lost, except for prelude functions;
  • Aditional information to the expression, like type information, cannot be added inside the selected expression, since only the specified grammar is recognized.
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