--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/misc/parser.sh	Sat Aug 29 16:05:59 2020 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# to make the script fail safely
+set -euo pipefail
+
+
+out=${1:-output}
+
+# compilation tests
+
+function scala_compile {
+  (ulimit -t 60; JAVA_OPTS="-Xmx1g" scala -Xprint:parser "$1" 2> ptmp 1> ptmp)
+}
+
+# purity test
+
+function scala_vars {
+   (egrep '\bvar\b|\breturn\b|\.par\.|\.par |ListBuffer|mutable|new Array' ptmp 2> /dev/null 1> /dev/null)
+}
+
+
+### compilation test
+
+echo "collatz.scala runs?" | tee -a $out
+
+if (scala_compile collatz.scala)
+then
+  echo "  --> success" | tee -a $out
+  tsts0=$(( 0 ))
+else
+  echo "  --> scala collatz.scala did not run successfully" | tee -a $out
+  tsts0=$(( 1 )) 
+fi
+
+# var, .par return, ListBuffer test
+#
+
+if  [ $tsts0 -eq 0 ]
+then
+  echo "collatz.scala does not contain var, return etc?" | tee -a $out
+
+  if (scala_vars tmp)
+  then
+    echo "  --> test failed" | tee -a $out
+    tsts=$(( 1 ))
+  else
+    echo "  --> success" | tee -a $out
+    tsts=$(( 0 )) 
+  fi
+fi  
+
+###rm tmp
+
+