theory Antiquotes
imports "../Base"
begin
section {* Useful Document Antiquotations *}
text {*
{\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 available document antiquotations and their options.
Below we give the code for two additional 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 \"expr\"}"}. This
antiquotation takes a piece of code as argument. The code is checked
by sending the ML-expression @{text [quotes] "val _ = \<dots>"} containing the
given argument to the ML-compiler (i.e.~the function @{ML "ML_Context.eval_in"}
in Line 4 below). The complete code of the antiquotation is as follows:
*}
ML %linenumbers {*fun ml_val code_txt = "val _ = " ^ code_txt
fun output_ml src ctxt code_txt =
(ML_Context.eval_in (SOME ctxt) false Position.none (ml_val code_txt);
ThyOutput.output_list (fn _ => fn s => Pretty.str s) src ctxt
(space_explode "\n" code_txt))
val _ = ThyOutput.add_commands
[("ML_checked", ThyOutput.args (Scan.lift Args.name) output_ml)]
*}
text {*
Note that the parser @{ML "(Scan.lift Args.name)"} in line 9 parses a string,
in this case the code given as argument. As mentioned before, this argument
is send to the ML-compiler in the line 4 using the function @{ML ml_val},
which constructs an apropriate ML-expression.
If the code is ``approved'' by the compiler, then the output function @{ML
"ThyOutput.output_list (fn _ => fn s => Pretty.str s)"} in the next line pretty prints the
code. This function expects that the code is a list of 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_list} when printing the code (for
example @{text "[display]"}, @{text "[quotes]"} and @{text "[source]"}).
\begin{readmore}
For more information about options of 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 %linenumbers {* fun output_ml src ctxt (code_txt,pos) =
(ML_Context.eval_in (SOME ctxt) false pos (ml_val code_txt);
ThyOutput.output_list (fn _ => fn s => Pretty.str s) src ctxt
(space_explode "\n" code_txt))
val _ = ThyOutput.add_commands
[("ML_checked", ThyOutput.args
(Scan.lift (OuterParse.position Args.name)) output_ml)]
*}
text {*
where in Lines 1 and 2 the positional information is properly treated.
(FIXME: say something about OuterParse.position)
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 antiquotation extends the first by allowing also to give
hints what the result of the ML-code should be and to check the consistency of
the actual result with these hints. For this we are going to implement the
antiquotation
@{text "@{ML_response \"expr\" \"pat\"}"}
whose first argument is the ML-code and the second is a pattern specifying
the result. To add some convenience and allow dealing with large outputs,
the user can give a partial specification including abbreviations
@{text [quotes] "\<dots>"}.
Whereas in the antiquotation @{text "@{ML_checked \"expr\"}"} above, we have
sent the expression
@{text [quotes] "val _ = expr"} to the compiler, in this antiquotation the wildcard
@{text "_"} we will be replaced by a proper pattern constructed the hints. To
do this we need to replace 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_response_indicator pat =
map (fn s => "> " ^ s) (space_explode "\n" pat)
*}
text {*
The rest of the code of the antiquotation is
*}
ML {*
fun output_ml_response src ctxt ((code_txt,pat),pos) =
(ML_Context.eval_in (SOME ctxt) false pos (ml_pat (code_txt,pat));
let
val output = (space_explode "\n" code_txt) @ (add_response_indicator pat)
in
ThyOutput.output_list (fn _ => fn s => Pretty.str s) src ctxt output
end)
val _ = ThyOutput.add_commands
[("ML_response",
ThyOutput.args
(Scan.lift (OuterParse.position (Args.name -- Args.name)))
output_ml_response)]
*}
text {*
This extended antiquotation allows us to write
@{text [display] "@{ML_response [display] \"true andalso false\" \"false\"}"}
to obtain
@{ML_response [display] "true andalso false" "false"}
or
@{text [display] "@{ML_response [display] \"let val i = 3 in (i * i,\"foo\") end\" \"(9,\<dots>)\"}"}
to obtain
@{ML_response [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 antiquotation is that the hints can only be given for results that can actually
be constructed as a pattern. This excludes values that are abstract datatypes, like
theorems or cterms.
*}
end