Lamb

A statically typed and lazy evaluated implementation of Lambda Calculus.

SYNOPSIS

<pre><code><strong>lamb</strong> [<strong>--target</strong> {<strong>linux</strong>|<strong>windows</strong>}] [<strong>-i</strong>|<strong>-S</strong>|<strong>-c</strong>|<strong>--link</strong>] [<strong>--inline</strong>] [<strong>-o</strong> <em>FILE</em>] [<em>FILE</em>...] <em>FILE</em></code></pre>

ENVIRONMENT

LAMB_HOME

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

PREREQUISITES

• mlton
• mlyacc
• mllex
• gcc
• x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc (optional)

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.

SEE ALSO

• There is an Emacs major mode for Lamb by @zonuexe: https://github.com/zonuexe/lamb-mode.el Thank you!