Fwd: [Haskell-cafe] DSLs with {in,}equalities

[Alberto G. Corona]

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From: Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>
Date: 2009/3/13
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] DSLs with {in,}equalities
To: Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com>


You need an expression evaluator:

with
(+) (Const a) (Const b)= Const (a+b)
(*) (Const a) (Const b)= Const (a*b)

eval :: Exp -> Integer

eval (Const i)= i
eval ( Plus e1 e2)= eval e1 + eval e2 ..
eval( Mul ....

and

instance Ord Expr where
 (<) expr1 expr2 = eval expr1 < eval expr2


by the way:

simplify expr= Const (eval expr)



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2009/3/13 Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>

> Sorry(Const a) < (Const b) = a < b
>
> also
>
> (*) (Const a) (Const b)= Const (a*b)
>
>
> 2009/3/13 Alberto G. Corona <agocorona at gmail.com>
>
> >(<) :: (Ord a) => a -> a -> Bool
>>
>> what´s the problem?
>>
>> make your Expr an instance of Ord.
>>
>> By the way
>>
>> > instance Num Expr where
>> > fromInterger = Const
>> > (+) = Plus
>> > (*) = Times
>>
>> does not work. you have not defined (+) and (*) for Const Integer.
>>
>> (+) (Const a) (Const b)= Const (a+b)
>>
>> With this you have an evaluator.
>>
>> In the same way:
>>
>> (Const a) < (Const b) = Const (a < b)
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/12 Adam Vogt <vogt.adam at gmail.com>
>>
>> This seems to be in ghc for those reasons:
>>> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Quasiquotation
>>>
>>> * On Monday, March 02 2009, Andrew Hunter wrote:
>>>
>>> >Several times now I've had to define an EDSL for working with
>>> >(vaguely) numeric expressions.  For stuff like 2*X+Y, this is easy,
>>> >looking pretty much like:
>>> >
>>> >> data Expr = Const Integer | Plus Expr Expr | Times Expr Expr
>>> >>
>>> >> instance Num Expr where
>>> >> fromInterger = Const
>>> >> (+) = Plus
>>> >> (*) = Times
>>> >
>>> >&c.  This lets me get a perfectly nice AST, which is what I want.
>>> >When I want to be able to express and work with inequalities and
>>> >equalities, this breaks.  Suppose I want to write 2*X + Y < 3.  I
>>> >either have to:
>>> >
>>> >a) Hide Prelude.(<) and define a simple < that builds the AST term I
>>> want.
>>> >b) Come up with a new symbol for it that doesn't look totally awful.
>>> >
>>> >Neither of these work decently well.  Hiding Eq and Ord operators,
>>> >which is what I effectively have to do for a), is pretty much a
>>> >nonstarter--we'll have to use them too much for that to be practical.
>>> >
>>> >On the other hand, b) works...but is about as ugly as it gets.  We
>>> >have lots and lots of symbols that are already taken for important
>>> >purposes that are syntactically "near" <,<=,==, and the like: << and
>>> >>> and >>= for monads, >>> for arrows, etc.  There...are not good
>>> >choices that I know of for the symbols that don't defeat the purpose
>>> >of making a nice clean EDSL for expressions; I might as well use 3*X +
>>> >Y `lessthan` 3, which is just not cool.
>>> >
>>> >Does anyone know of a good solution, here?  Are there good
>>> >substitutions for all the six operators that are important
>>> >(<,>,>=,<=,==,/=), that are close enough to be pretty-looking but not
>>> >used for other important modules?
>>> >
>>> >Better yet, though a little harder, is there a nice type trick I'm not
>>> >thinking of?  This works for Num methods but not for Ord methods
>>> >because:
>>> >
>>> >(+) :: (Num a) => a -> a -> a
>>> >(<) :: (Ord a) => a -> a -> Bool
>>> >
>>> >i.e. the return type of comparisons is totally fixed.  I don't suppose
>>> >there's a good way to...well, I don't know what the *right* answer is,
>>> >but maybe define a new typeclass with a more flexible type for < that
>>> >lets both standard types return Bool and my expressions return Expr?
>>> >Any good solution would be appreciated.
>>> >
>>> >Thanks,
>>> >AHH
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