ProgTutorial/Recipes/Antiquotes.thy
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+theory Antiquotes
+imports "../Base"
+begin
+
+
+section {* Useful Document Antiquotations *}
+
+text {*
+  (FIXME: update to to new antiquotation setup)
+
+  {\bf Problem:} 
+  How to keep your ML-code inside a document synchronised with the actual code?\smallskip
+
+  {\bf Solution:} This can be achieved using document antiquotations.\smallskip
+
+  Document antiquotations can be used for ensuring consistent type-setting of
+  various entities in a document. They can also be used for sophisticated
+  \LaTeX-hacking. If you type @{text "Ctrl-c Ctrl-a h A"} inside ProofGeneral, you
+  obtain a list of all currently available document antiquotations and their options.
+  You obtain the same list on the ML-level by typing
+
+  @{ML [display,gray] "ThyOutput.print_antiquotations ()"}
+
+  Below we give the code for two additional document antiquotations that can
+  be used to typeset ML-code and also to check whether the given code actually
+  compiles. This provides a sanity check for the code and also allows one to
+  keep documents in sync with other code, for example Isabelle.
+
+  We first describe the antiquotation @{text "ML_checked"} with the syntax:
+ 
+  @{text [display] "@{ML_checked \"a_piece_of_code\"}"}
+
+  The code is checked by sending the ML-expression @{text [quotes] "val _ =
+  a_piece_of_code"} to the ML-compiler (i.e.~the function @{ML
+  "ML_Context.eval_in"} in Line 4 below). The complete code of the
+  document antiquotation is as follows:
+
+*}
+
+ML%linenosgray{*fun ml_val code_txt = "val _ = " ^ code_txt
+
+fun output_ml {context = ctxt, ...} code_txt =
+  (ML_Context.eval_in (SOME ctxt) false Position.none (ml_val code_txt); 
+   ThyOutput.output (map Pretty.str (space_explode "\n" code_txt)))
+
+val _ = ThyOutput.antiquotation "ML_checked" (Scan.lift Args.name) output_ml*}
+
+text {*
+  The parser @{ML "(Scan.lift Args.name)"} in line 9 parses a string, in this
+  case the code. As mentioned before, the code is sent to the ML-compiler in
+  the line 4 using the function @{ML ml_val}, which constructs the appropriate
+  ML-expression.  If the code is ``approved'' by the compiler, then the output
+  function @{ML "ThyOutput.output"} in the next line pretty prints the
+  code. This function expects that the code is a list of (pretty)strings where
+  each string correspond to a line in the output. Therefore the use of @{ML
+  "(space_explode \"\\n\" txt)" for txt} which produces this list according to
+  linebreaks.  There are a number of options for antiquotations that are
+  observed by @{ML ThyOutput.output} when printing the code (including @{text
+  "[display]"} and @{text "[quotes]"}). Line 7 sets up the new document
+  antiquotation.
+
+
+  \begin{readmore}
+  For more information about options of document antiquotations see \rsccite{sec:antiq}).
+  \end{readmore}
+
+  Since we used the argument @{ML "Position.none"}, the compiler cannot give specific 
+  information about the line number, in case an error is detected. We 
+  can improve the code above slightly by writing 
+*}
+
+ML%linenosgray{*fun output_ml {context = ctxt, ...} (code_txt, pos) =
+  (ML_Context.eval_in (SOME ctxt) false pos (ml_val code_txt);
+   ThyOutput.output (map Pretty.str (space_explode "\n" code_txt)))
+
+val _ = ThyOutput.antiquotation "ML_checked"
+         (Scan.lift (OuterParse.position Args.name)) output_ml *}
+
+text {*
+  where in Lines 1 and 2 the positional information is properly treated. The
+  parser @{ML OuterParse.position} encodes the positional information in the 
+  result.
+
+  We can now write in a document @{text "@{ML_checked \"2 + 3\"}"} in order to
+  obtain @{ML_checked "2 + 3"} and be sure that this code compiles until
+  somebody changes the definition of \mbox{@{ML "(op +)"}}.
+
+
+  The second document antiquotation we describe extends the first by a pattern
+  that specifies what the result of the ML-code should be and check the
+  consistency of the actual result with the given pattern. For this we are
+  going to implement the document antiquotation
+
+  
+  @{text [display] "@{ML_resp \"a_piece_of_code\" \"a_pattern\"}"}
+  
+  To add some convenience and also to deal with large outputs, the user can
+  give a partial specification inside the pattern by giving abbreviations of
+  the form @{text [quotes] "\<dots>"}. For example @{text "(\<dots>, \<dots>)"} for specifying a
+  pair.
+
+  In the document antiquotation @{text "@{ML_checked \"piece_of_code\"}"}
+  above we have sent the expression @{text [quotes] "val _ = piece_of_code"}
+  to the compiler, now instead the wildcard @{text "_"} we will be replaced by
+  the given pattern. To do this we need to replace in the input the @{text
+  [quotes] "\<dots>"} by @{text [quotes] "_"} before sending the code to the
+  compiler. The following function will do this:
+*}
+
+ML{*fun ml_pat (code_txt, pat) =
+let val pat' = 
+         implode (map (fn "\<dots>" => "_" | s => s) (Symbol.explode pat))
+in 
+  "val " ^ pat' ^ " = " ^ code_txt 
+end*}
+
+text {* 
+  Next we like to add a response indicator to the result using:
+*}
+
+
+ML{*fun add_resp pat = map (fn s => "> " ^ s) pat*}
+
+text {* 
+  The rest of the code of the document antiquotation is
+*}
+
+ML{*fun output_ml_resp {context = ctxt, ...} ((code_txt, pat), pos) = 
+  (ML_Context.eval_in (SOME ctxt) false pos (ml_pat (code_txt, pat));
+   let 
+     val output1 = space_explode "\n" code_txt 
+     val output2 = add_resp (space_explode "\n" pat)
+   in 
+     ThyOutput.output (map Pretty.str (output1 @ output2)) 
+   end)
+
+val _ = ThyOutput.antiquotation "ML_resp" 
+         (Scan.lift (OuterParse.position (Args.name -- Args.name))) 
+           output_ml_resp*}
+
+text {*
+  This extended document antiquotation allows us to write
+ 
+  @{text [display] "@{ML_resp [display] \"true andalso false\" \"false\"}"}
+
+  to obtain
+
+  @{ML_resp [display] "true andalso false" "false"} 
+
+  or 
+
+  @{text [display] "@{ML_resp [display] \"let val i = 3 in (i * i, \"foo\") end\" \"(9, \<dots>)\"}"}
+  
+  to obtain
+
+  @{ML_resp [display] "let val i = 3 in (i * i, \"foo\") end" "(9, \<dots>)"} 
+
+  In both cases, the check by the compiler ensures that code and result
+  match. A limitation of this document antiquotation, however, is that the
+  pattern can only be given for values that can be constructed. This excludes
+  values that are abstract datatypes, like @{ML_type thm}s and @{ML_type cterm}s.
+
+*}
+end
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