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This project implements an evaluator for a small subset of Racket, called Beginning Student Language (BSL).

The context-free grammar of BSL is defined as follows:

A BSLProgram is a sequence of BSLdefinitions followed by a BSLexpression.

A BSLDefiition is one of:

  • (define (Variable Variable ...) BSLexpression)
  • (define-struct Variable (Variable ...))
  • (define Variable BSLexpression)

A BSLexpression is one of:

  • PythonNumber | Num(PythonNumber)
  • true | Boolean(true)
  • false | Boolean(false)
  • Variable | Var(String)
  • (FunctionName BSLExpression ...)
  • (PrimitiveName BSLExpression ...)
  • (if BSLExpression BSLexpression BSLexpression)
  • (and BSLExpression BSLExpression BSLExpression ...)

A Variable: is a Token (that is not a PrimitiveName or a Literal token or a PythonNumber)
A FunctionaName: is a Token (that is not a PrimitiveName or a Literal token or a PythonNumber)
A PrimitiveName is one of:

  • /
  • <
  • =

The LiteralTokens are:

  • define
  • define-struct
  • if
  • and

A Token: is a sequence of characters not including '(', ')' and whitespace (' ') All whitespace between tokens and ( and ) is ignored.


R E A D E R: -> P-expression reads one S-expression from STDIN

An S-expression has the following textual representation:

  • Token
  • OpenParen

An OpenParen is: '(' followed by Seq

A Seq is one of:

  • ')'
  • S-expression followed by Seq

An P-expression is one of:

  • Atom
  • [Listof P-expression]

An Atom is:

  • Any sequence of characters
S-expression P-expression
Token Atom
OpenParen Listof P-expression

P A R S E R: P-expression -> AST

An AST is one of:

  • BSLDef(String, [Listof String])
  • IsClsDef
  • BSLExpr
  • ComparisonDef([Num ... -> bool or float or complex or int], [bool of float or complex or int -> Value] Value) %% but not Structure

A BSLDef is one of:

  • StructDef
  • ConstructorDef
  • SelectorDef
  • PredicateDef
  • FunctionDef(BSLExpr)

An IsClsDef is one of:

  • IsBooleanDef

A BSLExpr is one of:

  • And(BSLlist)
  • Boolean(bool)
  • FunctionApplication(String, BSLlist)
  • If(BSLlist)
  • Num((int or complex or float))
  • Variable(String)

A BSLlist is wrapper for the python list

Notes:
The parser will create an AST for P-expression whose original S-expression satisfies the context-free grammar of BSL.

  • EX: A parser will not catch the following error: ['define', ['add', 'x', 'x', 'z'], ['+', 1, 3]] because the repetition of 'x' is not context free.
  • EX: It will catch the following error: ['define', ['f', 'x', 1, 'y'], 42] because 1 is not a variable
  • EX: It will catch the following error: ['define', ['f', 'x', '+', 'y'], 42] because '+' is not a variable
S-expression AST
PythonNumber Num(PythonNumber)
true Boolean(true)
false Boolean(false)
Variable Var(String)

I N T E R P R E T E R: AST -> Value

A Value is one of:

  • Boolean(bool)
  • Num(PythonNumber)
  • Structure(String, [Listof (String, Value)])

For StructDef and FuncDef, eval_internal does not exist. For AST that come from BSLexpr, the following table explains eval_internal:

Expression ASTs Value
And Boolean
Boolean Boolean
Num Num
FunctionApplication Value
If Value
Variable Value

Values produced from calling the apply method on some Definition

Definition Value
ComparisonDef Num/Boolean
IsClsDef Boolean
PredicateDef Boolean
SelectorDef Value
ConstructorDef Structure
FuncDef Value

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