ligo/parser/pascaligo/Lexer.mli
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(* Lexer specification for LIGO, to be processed by [ocamllex].
The underlying design principles are:
(1) enforce stylistic constraints at a lexical level, in order to
early reject potentially misleading or poorly written
LIGO contracts;
(2) provide precise error messages with hint as how to fix the
issue, which is achieved by consulting the lexical
right-context of lexemes;
(3) be as independent as possible from the LIGO version, so
upgrades have as little impact as possible on this
specification: this is achieved by using the most general
regular expressions to match the lexing buffer and broadly
distinguish the syntactic categories, and then delegating a
finer, protocol-dependent, second analysis to an external
module making the tokens (hence a functor below);
(4) support unit testing (lexing of the whole input with debug
traces);
The limitation to the protocol independence lies in the errors that
the external module building the tokens (which is
protocol-dependent) may have to report. Indeed these errors have to
be contextualised by the lexer in terms of input source regions, so
useful error messages can be printed, therefore they are part of
the signature [TOKEN] that parameterise the functor generated
here. For instance, if, in a future release of LIGO, new tokens may
be added, and the recognition of their lexemes may entail new
errors, the signature [TOKEN] will have to be augmented and the
lexer specification changed. However, it is more likely that
instructions or types are added, instead of new kinds of tokens.
*)
module Region = Simple_utils.Region
module Pos = Simple_utils.Pos
type lexeme = string
(* TOKENS *)
(* The signature [TOKEN] exports an abstract type [token], so a lexer
can be a functor over tokens. This enables to externalise
version-dependent constraints in any module whose signature matches
[TOKEN]. Generic functions to construct tokens are required.
Note the predicate [is_eof], which caracterises the virtual token
for end-of-file, because it requires special handling. Some of
those functions may yield errors, which are defined as values of
the type [int_err] etc. These errors can be better understood by
reading the ocamllex specification for the lexer ([Lexer.mll]).
*)
module type TOKEN =
sig
type token
(* Errors *)
type int_err = Non_canonical_zero
type ident_err = Reserved_name
(* Injections *)
val mk_string : lexeme -> Region.t -> token
val mk_bytes : lexeme -> Region.t -> token
val mk_int : lexeme -> Region.t -> (token, int_err) result
val mk_nat : lexeme -> Region.t -> (token, int_err) result
val mk_mtz : lexeme -> Region.t -> (token, int_err) result
val mk_ident : lexeme -> Region.t -> (token, ident_err) result
val mk_constr : lexeme -> Region.t -> token
val mk_sym : lexeme -> Region.t -> token
val eof : Region.t -> token
(* Predicates *)
val is_string : token -> bool
val is_bytes : token -> bool
val is_int : token -> bool
val is_ident : token -> bool
val is_kwd : token -> bool
val is_constr : token -> bool
val is_sym : token -> bool
val is_eof : token -> bool
(* Projections *)
val to_lexeme : token -> lexeme
val to_string : token -> ?offsets:bool -> [`Byte | `Point] -> string
val to_region : token -> Region.t
end
(* The module type for lexers is [S]. It mainly exports the function
[open_token_stream], which returns
* a function [read] that extracts tokens from a lexing buffer,
* together with a lexing buffer [buffer] to read from,
* a function [close] that closes that buffer,
* a function [get_pos] that returns the current position, and
* a function [get_last] that returns the region of the last
recognised token.
Note that a module [Token] is exported too, because the signature
of the exported functions depend on it.
The call [read ~log] evaluates in a lexer (a.k.a tokeniser or
scanner) whose type is [Lexing.lexbuf -> token], and suitable for a
parser generated by Menhir.
The argument labelled [log] is a logger. It may print a token and
its left markup to a given channel, at the caller's discretion.
*)
module type S =
sig
module Token : TOKEN
type token = Token.token
type file_path = string
type logger = Markup.t list -> token -> unit
type instance = {
read : ?log:logger -> Lexing.lexbuf -> token;
buffer : Lexing.lexbuf;
get_pos : unit -> Pos.t;
get_last : unit -> Region.t;
close : unit -> unit
}
val open_token_stream : file_path option -> instance
(* Error reporting *)
exception Error of Error.t Region.reg
val print_error : ?offsets:bool -> [`Byte | `Point] ->
Error.t Region.reg -> file:bool -> unit
end
(* The functorised interface
Note that the module parameter [Token] is re-exported as a
submodule in [S].
*)
module Make (Token: TOKEN) : S with module Token = Token