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\fnote{\copyright{} Christian Urban, King's College London, 2020, 2021, 2023}

\section*{Scala 3 in 6CCS3CFL}

For the coursework in this module you are free to use any programming

language you like, but I will show you all my code using Scala---I

hope you have fond memories of Scala from PEP. The only difference

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If you intend to submit your code for the CW in Scala, you \underline{MUST} submit code that

is compatible with Scala 3!! This is to make it easier for me to test

your code and the changes between Scala 2 from last year PEP to Scala

3 in CFL are not that great. In fact, most changes are just some new

syntax.

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\noindent

If you need a reminder of the Scala handouts from PEP updated to Scala 3

have a look here

\hr{http://talisker.nms.kcl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/repos.cgi/pep-material/raw-file/tip/handouts/pep-ho.pdf}. But as said, you do not need to use Scala for the CWs.\footnote{Haskell, Rust, Ocaml were other languages that have

  been used previously in CFL. I do not recommend to use Java or C or C++ for

  writing a compiler, but if you insist, feel free. It has been done

  before.}  

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\noindent

The other difference between the Scala I showed you in PEP is that in CFL

I will use the Ammonite REPL (with underlying Scala Version 3):

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\url{https://ammonite.io/#Ammonite-REPL}

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\noindent

This is a drop-in replacement for the original Scala REPL and

works very similarly, for example

\begin{lstlisting}[language={},numbers=none,basicstyle=\ttfamily\small]

$ amm

Loading...

res0: Int = 3

\end{lstlisting} %% $

%%\runExtCmd[redirect]{ls -la}{voss}

\noindent

Ammonite uses the same Scala compiler, just adds some useful features

on top of it. It is quite main-stream in the Scala community and it should

therefore be very easy for you to install \texttt{amm}. If you work under

a Unix-like system, a sure way to install the right version of Ammonite

is by using \texttt{curl}:

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language={},basicstyle=\ttfamily\small]

$ curl -L https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/Ammonite/releases/\

\end{lstlisting} %% $  

\noindent

This creates a file \code{amm} which before it can be run might

need some adjustments of the permissions. Under recent versions of

Windows also have \texttt{curl}, but need a slightly different call:

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language={},basicstyle=\ttfamily\small]

$ curl -L https://github.com/com-lihaoyi/Ammonite/releases/\

\end{lstlisting} %% $  

\noindent

Then you need to run Ammonite with \texttt{.$\backslash$amm} and there

is no need to change any permissions under Windows.  

The big advantage of Ammonite is that it comes with some additional

libraries already built-in and also allows one to easily break up code

into smaller modules. For example reading and writing files in

Ammonite can be achieved with

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

scala> import os._

scala> write.over(pwd / "file.name", "foo bar")  

scala> read(pwd / "file.name")   

res1: String = "foo bar"

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\noindent

The second line writes the string \code{"foo bar"} into the file

\code{"file.name"}, which is located in the current working

directory (\code{pwd}). For loading and accessing code from

another Scala file, you can import the code into Ammonite

as follows:

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

import $file.name-of-the-file

import name-of-the-file._

\end{lstlisting}  %% $

\noindent

This assumes the other Scala file is called

\texttt{name-of-the-file.sc} and requires the file to be in the same

directory where \texttt{amm} is working in. This will be very convenient 

for the compiler we implement in CFL, because it allows us to easily

break up the code into the lexer, parser and code generator.

Another handy feature of Ammonite is that you can mark functions as

\texttt{@main}. For example

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

@main

def foo() = ...

\end{lstlisting}

\noindent

This means you can now call that function from the command line like

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

$ amm file.sc foo

\end{lstlisting} %% $

\noindent

If you want to specify an argument on the commandline, say an int and

a string, then you can write

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

@main

def bar(i: Int, s: String) = ...

\end{lstlisting}

\noindent

and then call

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

$ amm file.sc 42 foobar

\end{lstlisting} %% $

\noindent

What is also good in Ammonite is that you can specify more than one

function to be ``main'' and then specify on the command line which

function you want to run as entry-point.

Another feature you might like to use is that Ammonite can ``watch'' files.

This means it can automatically re-run a file when it is saved. For this

you have to call \texttt{amm} with the option \texttt{-w}, as in

\begin{lstlisting}[numbers=none,language=Scala]

$ amm -w file.sc

\end{lstlisting} %% $

\noindent Of course this requires that you use \texttt{println} for

inspecting any data as otherwise nothing will be displayed at the

commandline.

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\noindent

To sum up, Ammonite is a really useful addition to the Scala ecosystem.

You can find more information about how to use it in the first five chapters

of the ``Hands-on Scala'' book by Li Haoyi. These chapters are

free and can be used as a reference, see

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