rl'

rlp (ruelang') will be a lazily-evaluated purely-functional language heavily imitating Haskell.

Build Info

$ cabal build       # build the rlpc compiler
$ cabal install     # install rlpc to $PATH
$ cabal haddock     # build the API docs w/ haddock
$ make -C docs html # build the primary docs w/ sphinx

Potential Features

Listed in order of importance.

• ADTs
• First-class functions
• Higher-kinded types
• Typeclasses
• Parametric polymorphism
• Hindley-Milner type inference
• Newtype coercion
• Parallelism

Milestones

(This list is incomplete.)

• Backend
  • Core language
    • AST
  • Low-level execution model (TI)
    • Arithmetic
    • Conditionals
    • Garbage Collection
  • Low-level execution model (GM)
    • Arithmetic
    • Conditionals
    • Garbage Collection
  • Emitter
    • Code-gen (target yet to be decided)
    • Core language emitter
  • Core linter (Type-checker)
  • Optimisation pass
    • Let-floating
    • TCO
    • DCE
• Frontend
  • High-level language
    • AST
    • Lexer
    • Parser
  • Translation to the core language
    • Constraint solver
    • do-notation
  • CLI
• Documentation (mostly for presentation)
  • State transition rules
  • How does the evaluation model work?
  • CLI usage
  • Tail call optimisation
  • Parsing rlp
• Tests
  • Generic example programs
  • Parser