ivo/src/LambdaCalculus/Expression.hs

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{-# LANGUAGE DeriveGeneric #-}
module LambdaCalculus.Expression where
-- The definition of Expression is in its own file because:
-- * Expression and AbstractSyntax should not be in the same file
-- * Expression's `show` definition depends on AbstractSyntax's show definition,
-- which means that `ast2expr` and `expr2ast` can't be in AbstractSyntax
-- because of mutually recursive modules
-- * I don't want to clutter the module focusing on the actual evaluation
-- with all of these irrelevant conversion operators.
import Data.Bifunctor (first, second)
import Data.Text (Text)
import Data.Text qualified as T
import GHC.Generics (Generic)
import LambdaCalculus.Parser.AbstractSyntax (AbstractSyntax)
import LambdaCalculus.Parser.AbstractSyntax qualified as AST
import TextShow
data Expression
= Variable Text
| Application Expression Expression
| Abstraction Text Expression
deriving (Eq, Generic)
-- | A naive implementation of 'show', which does not take advantage of any syntactic sugar
-- and always emits optional parentheses.
basicShow :: Expression -> Builder
basicShow (Variable var) = fromText var
basicShow (Application ef ex) = "(" <> showb ef <> " " <> showb ex <> ")"
basicShow (Abstraction var body) = "" <> fromText var <> ". " <> showb body <> ")"
-- | Convert from an abstract syntax tree to an expression.
ast2expr :: AbstractSyntax -> Expression
ast2expr (AST.Variable name) = Variable name
ast2expr (AST.Application []) = Abstraction "x" (Variable "x")
ast2expr (AST.Application [x]) = ast2expr x
ast2expr (AST.Application xs) = foldl1 Application $ map ast2expr xs
ast2expr (AST.Abstraction [] body) = ast2expr body
ast2expr (AST.Abstraction names body) = foldr Abstraction (ast2expr body) names
ast2expr (AST.Let defs body) = foldr (uncurry letExpr . second ast2expr) (ast2expr body) defs
where letExpr :: Text -> Expression -> Expression -> Expression
letExpr name val body = Application (Abstraction name body) val
-- | View nested applications of abstractions as a list.
viewLet :: Expression -> ([(Text, Expression)], Expression)
viewLet (Application (Abstraction var body) x) = first ((var, x) :) (viewLet body)
viewLet x = ([], x)
-- | View nested abstractions as a list.
viewAbstraction :: Expression -> ([Text], Expression)
viewAbstraction (Abstraction name body) = first (name :) (viewAbstraction body)
viewAbstraction x = ([], x)
-- | View left-nested applications as a list.
viewApplication :: Expression -> [Expression]
viewApplication (Application ef ex) = ex : viewApplication ef
viewApplication x = [x]
-- | Convert from an expression to an abstract syntax tree.
--
-- This function will use let, and applications and abstractions of multiple values when possible.
expr2ast :: Expression -> AbstractSyntax
expr2ast (viewLet -> (defs@(_:_), body)) = AST.Let (map (second expr2ast) defs) $ expr2ast body
expr2ast (viewAbstraction -> (names@(_:_), body)) = AST.Abstraction names $ expr2ast body
expr2ast (viewApplication -> es@(_:_:_)) = AST.Application $ map expr2ast $ reverse es
expr2ast (Variable name) = AST.Variable name
instance TextShow Expression where
showb = showb . expr2ast
instance Show Expression where
show = T.unpack . showt