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Make this more concise and clear by just presenting the lexical and syntactic grammar as the way we define the Leo syntax, as opposed to discussing alternatives like PEGs.
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; Leo Library
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; Copyright (C) 2021 Aleo Systems Inc.
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; Format Note
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; -----------
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; The ABNF standard requires grammars to consist of lines terminated by CR LF
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; (i.e. carriage return followed by line feed, DOS/Windows-style),
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; as explained in the background on ABNF later in this file.
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; This file's lines are therefore terminated by CR LF.
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; To avoid losing this requirement across systems,
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; this file is marked as 'text eol=crlf' in .gitattributes:
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; this means that the file is textual, enabling visual diffs,
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; but its lines will always be terminated by CR LF on any system.
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; Note that this CR LF requirement only applies to the grammar files themselves.
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; It does not apply to the lines of the languages described by the grammar.
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; ABNF grammars may describe any kind of languages,
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; with any kind of line terminators,
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; or even without line terminators at all (e.g. for "binary" languages).
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; Introduction
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; ------------
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; This file contains an ABNF (Augmented Backus-Naur Form) grammar of Leo.
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; Background on ABNF is provided later in this file.
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; This grammar provides an official definition of the syntax of Leo
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; that is both human-readable and machine-readable.
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; It will be part of an upcoming Leo language reference.
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; It may also be used to generate parser tests at some point.
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; We are also using this grammar
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; as part of a mathematical formalization of the Leo language,
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; which we are developing in the ACL2 theorem prover
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; and which we plan to publish at some point.
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; In particular, we have used a formally verified parser of ABNF grammars
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; (at https://github.com/acl2/acl2/tree/master/books/kestrel/abnf;
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; also see the paper at https://www.kestrel.edu/people/coglio/vstte18.pdf)
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; to parse this grammar into a formal representation of the Leo concrete syntax
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; and to validate that the grammar satisfies certain consistency properties.
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; Background on ABNF
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; ------------------
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; ABNF is an Internet standard:
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; see RFC 5234 at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5234
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; and RFC 7405 at https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7405.
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; It is used to specify the syntax of JSON, HTTP, and other standards.
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; ABNF adds conveniences and makes slight modifications
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; to Backus-Naur Form (BNF),
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; without going beyond context-free grammars.
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; Instead of BNF's angle-bracket notation for nonterminals,
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; ABNF uses case-insensitive names consisting of letters, digits, and dashes,
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; e.g. HTTP-message and IPv6address.
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; ABNF includes an angle-bracket notation for prose descriptions,
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; e.g. <host, see [RFC3986], Section 3.2.2>,
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; usable as last resort in the definiens of a nonterminal.
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; While BNF allows arbitrary terminals,
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; ABNF uses only natural numbers as terminals,
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; and denotes them via:
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; (i) binary, decimal, or hexadecimal sequences,
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; e.g. %b1.11.1010, %d1.3.10, and %x.1.3.A
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; all denote the sequence of terminals '1 3 10';
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; (ii) binary, decimal, or hexadecimal ranges,
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; e.g. %x30-39 denotes any singleton sequence of terminals
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; 'n' with 48 <= n <= 57 (an ASCII digit);
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; (iii) case-sensitive ASCII strings,
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; e.g. %s"Ab" denotes the sequence of terminals '65 98';
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; and (iv) case-insensitive ASCII strings,
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; e.g. %i"ab", or just "ab", denotes
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; any sequence of terminals among
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; '65 66',
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; '65 98',
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; '97 66', and
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; '97 98'.
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; ABNF terminals in suitable sets represent ASCII or Unicode characters.
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; ABNF allows repetition prefixes n*m,
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; where n and m are natural numbers in decimal notation;
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; if absent,
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; n defaults to 0, and
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; m defaults to infinity.
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; For example,
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; 1*4HEXDIG denotes one to four HEXDIGs,
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; *3DIGIT denotes up to three DIGITs, and
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; 1*OCTET denotes one or more OCTETs.
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; A single n prefix
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; abbreviates n*n,
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; e.g. 3DIGIT denotes three DIGITs.
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; Instead of BNF's |, ABNF uses / to separate alternatives.
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; Repetition prefixes have precedence over juxtapositions,
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; which have precedence over /.
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; Round brackets group things and override the aforementioned precedence rules,
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; e.g. *(WSP / CRLF WSP) denotes sequences of terminals
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; obtained by repeating, zero or more times,
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; either (i) a WSP or (ii) a CRLF followed by a WSP.
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; Square brackets also group things but make them optional,
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; e.g. [":" port] is equivalent to 0*1(":" port).
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; Instead of BNF's ::=, ABNF uses = to define nonterminals,
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; and =/ to incrementally add alternatives
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; to previously defined nonterminals.
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; For example, the rule BIT = "0" / "1"
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; is equivalent to BIT = "0" followed by BIT =/ "1".
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; The syntax of ABNF itself is formally specified in ABNF
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; (in Section 4 of the aforementioned RFC 5234,
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; after the syntax and semantics of ABNF
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; are informally specified in natural language
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; (in Sections 1, 2, and 3 of the aforementioned RFC 5234).
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; The syntax rules of ABNF prescribe the ASCII codes allowed for
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; white space (spaces and horizontal tabs),
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; line endings (carriage returns followed by line feeds),
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; and comments (semicolons to line endings).
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; Structure
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; ---------
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; This ABNF grammar consists of two (sub)grammars:
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; (i) a lexical grammar that describes how
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; sequence of characters are parsed into tokens, and
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; (ii) a syntactic grammar that described how
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; tokens are parsed into expressions, statements, etc.
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; The adjectives 'lexical' and 'syntactic' are
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; the same ones used in the Java language reference,
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; for instance;
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; alternative terms may be used in other languages,
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; but the separation into these two components is quite common
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; (the situation is sometimes a bit more complex, with multiple passes,
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; e.g. Unicode escape processing in Java).
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; This separation enables
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; concerns of white space, line endings, etc.
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; to be handled by the lexical grammar,
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; with the syntactic grammar focused on the more important structure.
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; Handling both aspects in a single grammar may be unwieldy,
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; so having two grammars provides more clarity and readability.
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; ABNF is a context-free grammar notation, with no procedural interpretation.
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; The two grammars conceptually define two subsequent processing phases,
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; as detailed below.
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; However, a parser implementation does not need to perform
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; two strictly separate phases (in fact, it typically does not),
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; so long as it produces the same final result.
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; The grammar is accompanied by some extra-grammatical requirements,
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; which are not conveniently expressible in a context-free grammar like ABNF.
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; These requirements are needed to make the grammar unambiguous,
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; i.e. to ensure that, for each sequence of terminals,
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; there is exactly one parse tree for that sequence terminals
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; that satisfies not only the grammar rules
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; but also the extra-grammatical requirements.
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; These requirements are expressed as comments in this file.
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; Operator Precedence
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; -------------------
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; We formulate the grammar rules for expressions
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; in a way that describes the relative precedence of operators,
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; as often done in language syntax specifications.
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; For instance, consider the rules
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; multiplicative-expression =
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; exponential-expression
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; / multiplicative-expression "*" exponential-expression
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; / multiplicative-expression "/" exponential-expression
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; additive-expression =
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; multiplicative-expression
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; / additive-expression "+" multiplicative-expression
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; / additive-expression "-" multiplicative-expression
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;
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; this rule tells us that the additive operators '+' and '-' have
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; lower precedence than the multiplicative operators '*' and '/',
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; and that both the additive and multiplicative operators associate to the left.
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; This may be best understood via the examples given below.
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; According to the rules, the expression
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; x + y * z
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;
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; can only be parsed as
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; +
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; / \
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; x *
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; / \
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; y z
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; and not as
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;
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; *
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; / \
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; + z
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; / \
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; x y
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;
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; because a multiplicative expression cannot have an additive expression
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; as first sub-expression, as it would in the second tree above.
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; Also according to the rules, the expression
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; x + y + z
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;
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; can only be parsed as
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;
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; +
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; / \
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; + z
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; / \
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; x y
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;
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; and not as
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;
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; +
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; / \
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; x +
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; / \
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; y z
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;
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; because an additive expression cannot have an additive expression
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; as second sub-expression, as it would in the second tree above.
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; Naming Convention
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; -----------------
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; For this ABNF grammar, we choose nonterminal names
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; that consist of complete English words, separated by dashes,
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; and that describe the construct the way it is in English.
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; For instance, we use the name 'conditional-statement'
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; to describe conditional statements.
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; At the same time, we attempt to establish
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; a precise and "official" nomenclature for the Leo constructs,
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; by way of the nonterminal names that define their syntax.
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; For instance, the rule
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;
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; group-literal = product-group-literal
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; / affine-group-literal
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;
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; tells us that there are two kinds of group literals,
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; namely product group literals and affine group literals.
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; This is more precise than describing them as
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; integers (which are not really group elements per se),
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; or points (they are all points, just differently specified),
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; or being singletons vs. pairs (which is a bit generic).
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; The only exception to the nomenclature-establishing role of the grammar
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; is the fact that, as discussed above,
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; we write the grammar rules in a way that determines
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; the relative precedence and the associativity of expression operators,
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; and that therefore we have rules like
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; unary-expression = primary-expression
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; / "!" unary-expression
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; / "-" unary-expression
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; In order to allow the recursion of the rule to stop,
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; we need to regard, in the grammar, a primary expression as a unary expression.
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; However, this is just a grammatical artifact:
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; ontologically, a primary expression is not really a unary expression,
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; because a unary expression is one that consists of
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; a unary operator and an operand sub-expression.
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; These terminological "exceptions" should be easy to identify in the rules.
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; Lexical Grammar
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; ---------------
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; A Leo file is a finite sequence of Unicode characters,
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; represented as Unicode code points,
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; which are numbers in the range form 0 to 10FFFFh.
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; These are captured by the ABNF rule 'character' below.
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; The lexical grammar defines how, conceptually,
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; the sequence of characters is turned into
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; a sequence of tokens, comments, and whitespaces.
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; As stated, the lexical grammar is ambiguous.
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; For example, the sequence of characters '**' (i.e. two stars)
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; could be equally parsed as two '*' symbol tokens or one '**' symbol token
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; (see rule for 'symbol' below).
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; As another example, the sequence or characters '<CR><LF>'
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; (i.e. carriage return followed by line feed)
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; could be equally parsed as two line terminators or one
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; (see rule for 'newline').
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; Thus, as often done in language syntax definitions,
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; the lexical grammar is disambiguated by
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; the extra-grammatical requirement that
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; the longest possible sequence of characters is always parsed.
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; This way, '**' must be parsed as one '**' symbol token,
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; and '<CR><LF>' must be parsed as one line terminator.
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; (We should formalize this requirement,
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; along with the other extra-grammatical requirements given below,
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; and formally prove that they indeed make
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; the lexical grammar of Leo unambiguous.)
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; As mentioned above, a character is any Unicode code point.
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; This grammar does not say how those are encoded in files (e.g. UTF-8):
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; it starts with a decoded sequence of Unicode code points.
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; Note that we allow any value,
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; even though some values may not be used according to the Unicode standard.
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character = %x0-10FFFF ; any Unicode code point
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; We give names to certain ASCII characters.
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horizontal-tab = %x9
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line-feed = %xA
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carriage-return = %xD
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space = %x20
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double-quote = %x22
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; We give names to complements of certain ASCII characters.
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; These consist of all the Unicode characters except for one or two.
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not-double-quote = %x0-22 / %x24-10FFFF ; anything but "
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not-star = %x0-29 / %x2B-10FFFF ; anything but *
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not-line-feed-or-carriage-return = %x0-9 / %xB-C / %xE-10FFFF
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; anything but LF or CR
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not-star-or-slash = %x0-29 / %x2B-2E / %x30-10FFFF ; anything but * or /
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; Lines in Leo may be terminated via
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; a single carriage return,
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; a line feed,
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; or a carriage return immediately followed by a line feed.
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; Note that the latter combination constitutes a single line terminator,
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; according to the extra-grammatical rule of the longest sequence.
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newline = line-feed / carriage-return / carriage-return line-feed
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; Line terminators form whitespace, along with spaces and horizontal tabs.
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whitespace = space / horizontal-tab / newline
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; There are two kinds of comments in Leo, as in other languages.
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; One is block comments of the form '/* ... */',
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; and the other is end-of-line comments '// ...'.
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; The first kind start at '/*' and end at the first '*/',
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; possibly spanning multiple (partial) lines;
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; they do no nest.
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; The second kind start at '//' and extend till the end of the line.
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; The rules about comments given below are similar to
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; the ones used in the Java language specification.
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comment = block-comment / end-of-line-comment
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block-comment = "/*" rest-of-block-comment
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rest-of-block-comment = "*" rest-of-block-comment-after-star
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/ not-star rest-of-block-comment
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rest-of-block-comment-after-star = "/"
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/ "*" rest-of-block-comment-after-star
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/ not-star-or-slash rest-of-block-comment
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end-of-line-comment = "//" *not-line-feed-or-carriage-return newline
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; Below are the keywords in the Leo language.
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; They cannot be used as identifiers.
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keyword = %s"address"
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/ %s"as"
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/ %s"bool"
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/ %s"circuit"
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/ %s"console"
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/ %s"const"
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/ %s"else"
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/ %s"false"
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/ %s"field"
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/ %s"for"
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/ %s"function"
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/ %s"group"
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/ %s"i8"
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/ %s"i16"
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/ %s"i32"
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/ %s"i64"
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/ %s"i128"
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/ %s"if"
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/ %s"import"
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/ %s"in"
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/ %s"input"
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/ %s"let"
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/ %s"mut"
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/ %s"return"
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/ %s"Self"
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/ %s"self"
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/ %s"static"
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/ %s"string"
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/ %s"true"
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/ %s"u8"
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/ %s"u16"
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/ %s"u32"
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/ %s"u64"
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/ %s"u128"
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; The following rules define (ASCII) digits
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; and (uppercase and lowercase) letters.
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digit = %x30-39 ; 0-9
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uppercase-letter = %x41-5A ; A-Z
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lowercase-letter = %x61-7A ; a-z
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letter = uppercase-letter / lowercase-letter
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; An identifier is a non-empty sequence of letters, digits, and underscores,
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; starting with a letter.
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; It must not be a keyword: this is an extra-grammatical constraint.
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identifier = letter *( letter / digit / "_" ) ; but not a keyword
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; A package name consists of one or more segments separated by single dashes,
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; where each segment is a non-empty sequence of lowercase letters and digits.
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package-name = 1*( lowercase-letter / digit )
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*( "-" 1*( lowercase-letter / digit ) )
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; An address starts with 'aleo1'
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; and continues with exactly 58 lowercase letters and digits.
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; Thus an address always consists of 63 characters.
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address = %s"aleo1" 58( lowercase-letter / digit )
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; A format string is a sequence of characters, other than double quote,
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; surrounded by double quotes.
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; Within a format string, substrings '{}' are distinguished as containers
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; (these are the ones that may be matched with values
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; whose textual representation replaces the containers
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; in the printed string).
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; There is an implicit extra-grammatical requirements that
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; the explicit 'formatted-string-container' instances include
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; all the occurrences of '{}' in the parsed character sequence:
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; that is, there may not be two contiguous 'not-double-quote' instances
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; that are '{' and '}'.
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formatted-string-container = "{}"
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formatted-string = double-quote
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*( not-double-quote / formatted-string-container )
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double-quote
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; Here is (part of this ABNF comment),
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; an alternative way to specify format strings,
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; which captures the extra-grammatical requirement above in the grammar
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; but is more complicated:
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; not-double-quote-or-open-brace = %x0-22 / %x24-7A / %x7C-10FFFF
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;
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; not-double-quote-or-close-brace = %x0-22 / %x24-7C / %x7E-10FFFF
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;
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; formatted-string-element = not-double-quote-or-open-brace
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; / "{" not-double-quote-or-close-brace
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; / formatted-string-container
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; formatted-string = double-quote *formatted-string-element double-quote
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;
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; It is not immediately clear which approach is better; there are tradeoffs.
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; Regardless, we should choose one eventually.
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; Annotations are built out of names and arguments, which are tokens.
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; Two names are currently supported.
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; An argument is a sequence of one or more letters, digits, and underscores.
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annotation-name = "@" identifier
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; A natural (number) is a sequence of one or more digits.
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; Note that we allow leading zeros, e.g. '007'.
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natural = 1*digit
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; An integer (number) is either a natural or its negation.
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; Note that we also allow leading zeros in negative numbers, e.g. '-007'.
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integer = [ "-" ] natural
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; An untyped literal is just an integer.
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untyped-literal = integer
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; Unsigned literals are naturals followed by unsigned types.
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unsigned-literal = natural ( %s"u8" / %s"u16" / %s"u32" / %s"u64" / %s"u128" )
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; Signed literals are integers followed by signed types.
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signed-literal = integer ( %s"i8" / %s"i16" / %s"i32" / %s"i64" / %s"i128" )
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; Field literals are integers followed by the type of field elements.
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field-literal = integer %s"field"
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; There are two kinds of group literals.
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; One is a single integer followed by the type of group elements,
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; which denotes the scalar product of the generator point by the integer.
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; The other kind is not a token because it allows some whitespace inside;
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; therefore, it is defined in the syntactic grammar.
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product-group-literal = integer %s"group"
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; Boolean literals are the usual two.
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boolean-literal = %s"true" / %s"false"
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; An address literal is an address wrapped into an indication of address,
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; to differentiate it from an identifier.
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address-literal = %s"address" "(" address ")"
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; The ones above are all the literals, as defined by the following rule.
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atomic-literal = untyped-literal
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/ unsigned-literal
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/ signed-literal
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/ field-literal
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/ product-group-literal
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/ boolean-literal
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/ address-literal
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; After defining the (mostly) alphanumeric tokens above,
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; it remains to define tokens for non-alphanumeric symbols such as "+" and "(".
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; Different programming languages used different terminologies for these,
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; e.g. operators, separators, punctuators, etc.
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; Here we use 'symbol', for all of them, but we can do something different.
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; We also include a token consisting of
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; a closing parenthesis immediately followed by 'group':
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; as defined in the syntactic grammar,
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; this is the final part of an affine group literal.
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; Even though it includes letters,
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; it seems appropriate to still consider it a symbol,
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; particularly since it starts with a symbol.
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; We could give names to all of these symbols,
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; via rules such as
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;
|
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; equality-operator = "=="
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;
|
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; and defining 'symbol' in terms of those
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;
|
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; symbol = ... / equality-operator / ...
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;
|
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; This may or may not make the grammar more readable,
|
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; but it would help establish a terminology in the grammar,
|
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; namely the exact names of some of these token.
|
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; On the other hand, at least some of them are perhaps simple enough
|
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; that they could be just described in terms of their symbols,
|
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; e.g. 'double dot', 'question mark', etc.
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symbol = "!" / "&&" / "||"
|
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/ "==" / "!="
|
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/ "<" / "<=" / ">" / ">="
|
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/ "+" / "-" / "*" / "/" / "**"
|
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/ "=" / "+=" / "-=" / "*=" / "/=" / "**="
|
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/ "(" / ")"
|
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/ "[" / "]"
|
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/ "{" / "}"
|
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/ "," / "." / ".." / "..." / ";" / ":" / "::" / "?"
|
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/ "->" / "_"
|
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/ %s")group"
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; Everything defined above, other than comments and whitespace,
|
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; is a token, as defined by the following rule.
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token = keyword
|
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/ identifier
|
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/ atomic-literal
|
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/ package-name
|
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/ formatted-string
|
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/ annotation-name
|
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/ symbol
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;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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; Syntactic Grammar
|
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; -----------------
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; The processing defined by the lexical grammar above
|
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; turns the initial sequence of characters
|
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; into a sequence of tokens, comments, and whitespaces.
|
|
; The purpose of comments and whitespaces, from a syntactic point of view,
|
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; is just to separate tokens:
|
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; they are discarded, leaving a sequence of tokens.
|
|
; The syntactic grammar describes how to turn
|
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; a sequence of tokens into concrete syntax trees.
|
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|
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; There are unsigned and signed integer types, for five sizes.
|
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|
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unsigned-type = %s"u8" / %s"u16" / %s"u32" / %s"u64" / %s"u128"
|
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|
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signed-type = %s"i8" / %s"i16" / %s"i32" / %s"i64" / %s"i128"
|
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|
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integer-type = unsigned-type / signed-type
|
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|
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; The integer types, along with the field and group types,
|
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; for the arithmetic types, i.e. the ones that support arithmetic operations.
|
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|
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field-type = %s"field"
|
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|
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group-type = %s"group"
|
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|
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arithmetic-type = integer-type / field-type / group-type
|
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|
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; The arithmetic types, along with the boolean and address types,
|
|
; form the scalar types, i.e. the ones whose values do not contain (sub)values.
|
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|
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boolean-type = %s"bool"
|
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|
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address-type = %s"address"
|
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|
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scalar-type = boolean-type / arithmetic-type / address-type
|
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|
|
; Circuit types are denoted by identifiers and the keyword 'Self'.
|
|
; The latter is only allowed inside a circuit definition,
|
|
; to denote the defined circuit.
|
|
|
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self-type = %s"Self"
|
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|
|
circuit-type = identifier / self-type
|
|
|
|
; A tuple type consists of zero, two, or more component types.
|
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|
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tuple-type = "(" [ type 1*( "," type ) ] ")"
|
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|
|
; An array type consists of an element type
|
|
; and an indication of dimensions.
|
|
; There is either a single dimension (a number),
|
|
; or a tuple of one or more dimensions
|
|
; (we could restrict the latter to two or more dimensions).
|
|
|
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array-type = "[" type ";" array-dimensions "]"
|
|
|
|
array-dimensions = natural
|
|
/ "(" natural *( "," natural ) ")"
|
|
|
|
; Circuit, tuple, and array types form the aggregate types,
|
|
; i.e. types whose values contain (sub)values
|
|
; (with the corner-case exception of the empty tuple value).
|
|
|
|
aggregate-type = tuple-type / array-type / circuit-type
|
|
|
|
; Scalar and aggregate types form all the types.
|
|
|
|
type = scalar-type / aggregate-type
|
|
|
|
; The lexical grammar above defines product group literals.
|
|
; The other kind of group literal is a pair of integer coordinates,
|
|
; which are reduced modulo the prime to identify a point,
|
|
; which must be on the elliptic curve.
|
|
; It is also allowed to omit one (not both) coordinates,
|
|
; with an indication of how to infer the missing coordinate
|
|
; (i.e. sign high, sign low, or inferred).
|
|
; This is an affine group literal,
|
|
; because it consists of affine point coordinates.
|
|
|
|
group-coordinate = integer / "+" / "-" / "_"
|
|
|
|
affine-group-literal = "(" group-coordinate "," group-coordinate ")" %s"group"
|
|
|
|
; A literal is either an atomic one or an affine group literal.
|
|
; Here 'atomic' refers to being a token or not,
|
|
; since no whitespace is allowed within a token.
|
|
|
|
literal = atomic-literal / affine-group-literal
|
|
|
|
; The following rule is not directly referenced in the rules for expressions
|
|
; (which reference 'literal' instead),
|
|
; but it is useful to establish terminology:
|
|
; a group literal is either a product group literal or an affine group literal.
|
|
|
|
group-literal = product-group-literal / affine-group-literal
|
|
|
|
; As often done in grammatical language syntax specifications,
|
|
; we define rules for different kinds of expressions,
|
|
; which also defines the relative precedence
|
|
; of operators and other expression constructs,
|
|
; and the (left or right) associativity of binary operators.
|
|
|
|
; The primary expressions are self-contained in a way,
|
|
; i.e. they have clear deliminations.
|
|
; Some consist of single tokens:
|
|
; identifiers, the keywords 'self' and 'input', and literals.
|
|
; Primary expressions also include parenthesized expressions,
|
|
; i.e. any expression may be turned into a primary one
|
|
; by putting parentheses around it.
|
|
; The other kinds are defined and explained below.
|
|
|
|
primary-expression = identifier
|
|
/ %s"self"
|
|
/ %s"input"
|
|
/ literal
|
|
/ "(" expression ")"
|
|
/ tuple-expression
|
|
/ array-expression
|
|
/ circuit-expression
|
|
|
|
; There are tuple expressions to construct and deconstruct tuples.
|
|
; A construction consists of zero, two, or more component expressions.
|
|
; A deconstruction uses a component index (zero-indexed).
|
|
; Note that constructions are delimited by closing parentheses
|
|
; and deconstructions are delimited by natural tokens.
|
|
; The rule below, and similar rules for other aggregate types,
|
|
; use the perhaps more familiar 'access',
|
|
; but note that 'deconstruction' has a nice symmetry to 'construction';
|
|
; the term 'destructor' has a different meaning in other languages,
|
|
; so we may want to avoid it, but not necessarily.
|
|
|
|
tuple-construction = "(" [ expression 1*( "," expression ) ] ")"
|
|
|
|
tuple-expression = tuple-construction
|
|
|
|
; The are array expressions to construct and deconstruct arrays.
|
|
; There are two kinds of constructions:
|
|
; one lists the element expressions (at least one),
|
|
; including spreads (via '...') which are arrays being spliced in;
|
|
; the other repeats (the value of) a single expression
|
|
; across one or more dimensions.
|
|
; There are two kinds of deconstructions:
|
|
; one selects a single element by index (zero-indexed);
|
|
; the other selects a range via two indices,
|
|
; the first inclusive and the second exclusive --
|
|
; both are optional,
|
|
; the first defaulting to 0 and the second to the array length.
|
|
; Note that these expressions are all delimited
|
|
; by closing square brackets.
|
|
|
|
array-inline-construction = "["
|
|
array-inline-element
|
|
*( "," array-inline-element )
|
|
"]"
|
|
|
|
array-inline-element = expression / "..." expression
|
|
|
|
array-repeat-construction = "[" expression ";" array-dimensions "]"
|
|
|
|
array-construction = array-inline-construction / array-repeat-construction
|
|
|
|
array-expression = array-construction
|
|
|
|
; There are circuit expressions to construct and deconstruct circuit values.
|
|
; A construction lists values for all the member variables (in any order);
|
|
; there must be at least one member variable currently.
|
|
; A single identifier abbreviates
|
|
; a pair consisting of the same identifier separated by dot;
|
|
; note that, in the expansion, the left one denotes a member name,
|
|
; while the right one denotes an expression (a variable),
|
|
; so they are syntactically identical but semantically different.
|
|
; A deconstruction selects a member variable by name.
|
|
; Note that these expressions are delimited,
|
|
; by closing curly braces or identifiers.
|
|
|
|
circuit-construction = circuit-type "{"
|
|
circuit-inline-element *( "," circuit-inline-element )
|
|
"}"
|
|
|
|
circuit-inline-element = identifier ":" expression / identifier
|
|
|
|
circuit-expression = circuit-construction
|
|
|
|
; There are three kinds of function calls:
|
|
; top-level function calls,
|
|
; instance (i.e. non-static) member function calls, and
|
|
; static member function calls.
|
|
; What changes is the start, but they all end in an argument list,
|
|
; delimited by a closing parenthesis.
|
|
|
|
function-arguments = "(" [ expression *( "," expression ) ] ")"
|
|
|
|
; Postfix expressions have highest precedence.
|
|
; They apply to primary expressions.
|
|
; Contains access expressions for arrays, tuples, and circuits.
|
|
; Contains function call types.
|
|
|
|
postfix-expression = primary-expression
|
|
/ postfix-expression "." natural
|
|
/ postfix-expression "." identifier
|
|
/ identifier function-arguments
|
|
/ postfix-expression "." identifier function-arguments
|
|
/ circuit-type "::" identifier function-arguments
|
|
/ postfix-expression "[" expression "]"
|
|
/ postfix-expression "[" [expression] ".." [expression] "]"
|
|
|
|
; Unary operators have the highest operator precedence.
|
|
; They apply to postfix expressions
|
|
; and recursively to unary expressions.
|
|
|
|
unary-expression = postfix-expression
|
|
/ "!" unary-expression
|
|
/ "-" unary-expression
|
|
|
|
; Next in the operator precedence is casting.
|
|
; The current rule below makes exponentiation left-associative,
|
|
cast-expression = unary-expression
|
|
/ cast-expression %s"as" type
|
|
|
|
; Next in the operator precedence is exponentiation,
|
|
; following mathematical practice.
|
|
; The current rule below makes exponentiation left-associative,
|
|
; i.e. 'a ** b ** c' must be parsed as '(a ** b) ** c'.
|
|
; This is easy to change if we want it to be right-associative instead.
|
|
|
|
exponential-expression = cast-expression
|
|
/ exponential-expression "**" cast-expression
|
|
|
|
; Next in precedence come multiplication and division, both left-associative.
|
|
|
|
multiplicative-expression = exponential-expression
|
|
/ multiplicative-expression "*" exponential-expression
|
|
/ multiplicative-expression "/" exponential-expression
|
|
|
|
; Then there are addition and subtraction, both left-assocative.
|
|
|
|
additive-expression = multiplicative-expression
|
|
/ additive-expression "+" multiplicative-expression
|
|
/ additive-expression "-" multiplicative-expression
|
|
|
|
; Next in the precedence order are ordering relations.
|
|
; These are not associative, because they return boolean values.
|
|
|
|
ordering-expression = additive-expression
|
|
/ additive-expression "<" additive-expression
|
|
/ additive-expression ">" additive-expression
|
|
/ additive-expression "<=" additive-expression
|
|
/ additive-expression ">=" additive-expression
|
|
|
|
; Equalities return booleans but may also operate on boolean,
|
|
; so we make them left-associative.
|
|
|
|
equality-expression = ordering-expression
|
|
/ equality-expression "==" ordering-expression
|
|
/ equality-expression "!=" ordering-expression
|
|
|
|
; Next come conjunctive expressions, left-associative.
|
|
|
|
conjunctive-expression = equality-expression
|
|
/ conjunctive-expression "&&" equality-expression
|
|
|
|
; Next come disjunctive expressions, left-associative.
|
|
|
|
disjunctive-expression = conjunctive-expression
|
|
/ disjunctive-expression "||" conjunctive-expression
|
|
|
|
; Finally we have conditional expressions.
|
|
|
|
conditional-expression = disjunctive-expression
|
|
/ conditional-expression
|
|
"?" expression
|
|
":" conditional-expression
|
|
|
|
; These are all the expressions.
|
|
; Recall that conditional expressions
|
|
; may be disjunctive expressions,
|
|
; which may be conjunctive expressions,
|
|
; and so on all the way to primary expressions.
|
|
|
|
expression = conditional-expression
|
|
|
|
; There are various kinds of statements,
|
|
; including blocks, which are
|
|
; possibly empty sequences of statements surounded by curly braces.
|
|
|
|
statement = expression-statement
|
|
/ return-statement
|
|
/ variable-definition-statement
|
|
/ conditional-statement
|
|
/ loop-statement
|
|
/ assignment-statement
|
|
/ console-statement
|
|
/ block
|
|
|
|
block = "{" *statement "}"
|
|
|
|
; An expression (that returns the empty tuple)
|
|
; can be turned into a statement by appending a semicolon.
|
|
|
|
expression-statement = expression ";"
|
|
|
|
; A return statement always takes an expression,
|
|
; and does not end with a semicolon (but we may want to change that).
|
|
|
|
return-statement = %s"return" expression
|
|
|
|
; There are two kinds of variable definition statements,
|
|
; which only differ in the starting keyword.
|
|
; The variables are either a single one or a tuple of two or more;
|
|
; in all cases, there is just one optional type
|
|
; and just one initializing expression.
|
|
|
|
variable-definition-statement = ( %s"let" / %s"const" )
|
|
identifier-or-identifiers
|
|
[ ":" type ] "=" expression ";"
|
|
|
|
identifier-or-identifiers = identifier
|
|
/ "(" identifier 1*( "," identifier ) ")"
|
|
|
|
; A conditional statement always starts with a condition and a block
|
|
; (which together form a branch).
|
|
; It may stop there, or it may continue with an alternative block,
|
|
; or possibly with another conditional statement, forming a chain.
|
|
; Note that we require blocks in all branches, not merely statements.
|
|
|
|
branch = %s"if" expression block
|
|
|
|
conditional-statement = branch
|
|
/ branch %s"else" block
|
|
/ branch %s"else" conditional-statement
|
|
|
|
; A loop statement implicitly defines a loop variable
|
|
; that goes from a starting value (inclusive) to an ending value (exclusive).
|
|
; The body is a block.
|
|
|
|
loop-statement = %s"for" identifier %s"in" expression ".." expression block
|
|
|
|
; An assignment statement is straightforward.
|
|
; Based on the operator, the assignment may be simple (i.e. '=')
|
|
; or compound (i.e. combining assignment with an arithmetic operation).
|
|
|
|
assignment-operator = "=" / "+=" / "-=" / "*=" / "/=" / "**="
|
|
|
|
assignment-statement = expression assignment-operator expression ";"
|
|
|
|
; Console statements start with the 'console' keyword,
|
|
; followed by a console function call.
|
|
; The call may be an assertion or a print command.
|
|
; The former takes an expression (which must be boolean) as argument.
|
|
; The latter takes either no argument,
|
|
; or a format string followed by expressions,
|
|
; whose number must match the number of containers '{}' in the format string.
|
|
; Note that the console function names are identifiers, not keywords.
|
|
; There are three kind of printing.
|
|
|
|
console-statement = %s"console" "." console-call
|
|
|
|
console-call = assert-call
|
|
/ print-call
|
|
|
|
assert-call = %s"assert" "(" expression ")"
|
|
|
|
print-function = %s"debug" / %s"error" / %s"log"
|
|
|
|
print-arguments = "(" [ formatted-string *( "," expression ) ] ")"
|
|
|
|
print-call = print-function print-arguments
|
|
|
|
; An annotation consists of an annotation name (which starts with '@')
|
|
; with optional annotation arguments.
|
|
; Note that no parentheses are used if there are no arguments.
|
|
|
|
annotation = annotation-name
|
|
[ "(" identifier *( "," identifier ) ")" ]
|
|
|
|
; A function declaration defines a function.
|
|
; This could be called 'function-definition' instead,
|
|
; but see the comments about the 'declaration' rule below.
|
|
; The output type is optional (it defaults to the empty tuple type).
|
|
; In general, a function input consists of an identifier and a type,
|
|
; with an optional 'const' modifier.
|
|
; However, functions inside circuits
|
|
; may start with a 'mut self' or 'const self' or 'self' parameter.
|
|
; Furthermore, any function may end with an 'input' parameter.
|
|
|
|
function-declaration = *annotation %s"function" identifier
|
|
"(" [ function-parameters ] ")" [ "->" type ]
|
|
block
|
|
|
|
function-parameters = self-parameter [ "," input-parameter ]
|
|
/ self-parameter "," function-inputs [ "," input-parameter ]
|
|
/ function-inputs [ "," input-parameter ]
|
|
/ input-parameter
|
|
|
|
self-parameter = [ %s"mut" / %s"const" ] %s"self"
|
|
|
|
function-inputs = function-input *( "," function-input )
|
|
|
|
function-input = [ %s"const" ] identifier ":" type
|
|
|
|
input-parameter = %s"input"
|
|
|
|
; A circuit member variable declaration consists of an identifier and a type.
|
|
; A circuit member function declaration consists of a function declaration.
|
|
; We could call these 'member-definition' etc.,
|
|
; but see the comments about the 'declaration' rule below.
|
|
|
|
member-declaration = member-variable-declaration
|
|
/ member-function-declaration
|
|
|
|
member-variable-declaration = identifier ":" type
|
|
|
|
member-function-declaration = function-declaration
|
|
|
|
; A circuit declaration defines a circuit type. It is straightforward.
|
|
; This could be called 'circuit-definition' instead,
|
|
; but see the comments about the 'declaration' rule below.
|
|
|
|
circuit-declaration = *annotation %s"circuit" identifier
|
|
"{" member-declaration *( "," member-declaration ) "}"
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; An import declaration consists of the 'import' keyword
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; followed by a package path, which may be one of the following:
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; a single wildcard;
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; an identifier, optionally followed by a local renamer;
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; a package name followed by a path, recursively;
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; or a parenthesized list of package paths,
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; which are "fan out" of the initial path.
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; Note that we allow the last element of the parenthesized list
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; to be followed by a comma, presumably for convenience.
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import-declaration = %s"import" package-path
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package-path = "*"
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/ identifier [ %s"as" identifier ]
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/ package-name "." package-path
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/ "(" package-path *( "," package-path ) [","] ")"
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; Finally, we define a file as a sequence of zero or more declarations.
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; This is why we used 'function-declaration' and 'circuit-declaration'
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; instead of 'function-definition' and 'ciruit-definition':
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; this way, they are all declarations of some sort.
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; An import declaration cannot really called an import definition,
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; because it does not define anything.
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; But we may revisit this, and use 'definition' instead of 'declaration'.
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declaration = import-declaration
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/ function-declaration
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/ circuit-declaration
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file = *declaration
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