Ro

This is a compiler for Ro, an imperative programming language with functional features created by Chirag Bharadwaj and Peter Li at Cornell University. The compiler, which will eventually be written in OCaml (a functional language with near-C performance), will compile to the x86-64 assembly language.

To-Do List

• Develop a lexer/tokenizer for the language specification.
• Develop a parser for the language specification.
• Write an interpreter for the language specification.
  • Implement an expression evaluator.
  • Implement a type-checker for the language specification.
  • Implement type unification for the expressions.
  • Implement type inference for the expressions.
• Figure out how the heck to write a compiler...

Upcoming Features

We will update this list with upcoming features in future builds as we get them up and rolling.

• Adding support for interface files, namely those with the .iro extension. implements?
• Adding true higher-order functions. We have a version of that right now, but nothing crazy.
• Adding support for Python-like list/string/tuple slicing natively.
• Changing the language so that it is more expression-based instead of statement-based.
• Adding references as first-order types so that users can do SAFE pointer work, if desired.
• Changing mutable variables so mutable ends up being a first-order type instead of mixed in.
• Adding built-in support for Thread types for concurrency/multicore purposes.
• Adding a first-order module system so that things can be classed easily. Functors, maybe?
• Adding built-in support for Futures and Promises for asynchronous computations.

Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2015-2016 Chirag Bharadwaj and Peter Li, Cornell University.

There is NO warranty. This software may be freely redistributed with attribution to the original author in all cases. This software may also be modified from its original version and redistributed as long as all changes made are stated very clearly in the redistributed version and attribution to the original author is provided. You may not use ANY part of this software for commercial purposes. All rights reserved. Please report any bugs to the development team by making a pull request to this repository.