Syntactic extension for languages with implicitly delimited and infix syntax

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Publication Type dissertation
School or College College of Engineering
Department Computing
Author Rafkind, Jon
Title Syntactic extension for languages with implicitly delimited and infix syntax
Date 2013-05
Description I present the design of a parser that adds Scheme-style language extensibility to languages with implicitly delimited and infix syntax. A key element of my design is an enforestation parsing step, which converts a flat stream of tokens into an S-expression-like tree, in addition to the initial "read" phase of parsing and interleaved with the "macro-expand" phase. My parser uses standard lexical scoping rules to communicate syntactic extensions to the parser. In this way extensions naturally compose locally as well as through module boundaries. I argue that this style of communication is better suited towards a useful extension system than tools not directly integrated with the compiler. This dissertation explores the limits of this design in a new language called Honu. I use the extensiblity provided by Honu to develop useful language extensions such as LINQ and a parser generator. I also demonstrate the generality of the parsing techniques by applying them to Java and Python.
Type Text
Publisher University of Utah
Subject extensible; macros; programming languages
Dissertation Institution University of Utah
Dissertation Name Doctor of Philosophy
Language eng
Rights Management Copyright © Jon Rafkind 2013
Format Medium application/pdf
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Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6rr2d2j
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