Top 1K Features Creators Events Podcasts Books Extensions Interviews Blog Explorer CSV

turnstile

< >

turnstile is a grammar language created in 2017 by Stephen Chang and Alex Knauth and Ben Greenman and Milo Turner and Michael Ballantyne.

#2605on PLDB 7Years Old

Turnstile aims to help Racket programmers create typed languages. It does so with extensions of Racket’s macro-definition forms that facilitate implementation of type rules alongside normal macro code. As a result, the macros implementing a new language directly type check the program during expansion, obviating the need to create and call out to a separate type checker. Thus, a complete typed language implementation remains a series of macro definitions that may be imported and exported in the standard way that Racket programmers are accustomed to.


Example from the web:
#lang turnstile (provide → Int λ #%app #%datum + ann) (define-base-type Int) (define-type-constructor → #:arity > 0) (define-primop + : (→ Int Int Int)) ; [APP] (define-typed-syntax (#%app e_fn e_arg ...) ≫ [⊢ e_fn ≫ e_fn- ⇒ (~→ τ_in ... τ_out)] #:fail-unless (stx-length=? #'[τ_in ...] #'[e_arg ...]) (format "arity mismatch, expected ~a args, given ~a" (stx-length #'[τ_in ...]) #'[e_arg ...]) [⊢ e_arg ≫ e_arg- ⇐ τ_in] ... -------- [⊢ (#%app- e_fn- e_arg- ...) ⇒ τ_out]) ; [LAM] (define-typed-syntax λ #:datum-literals (:) [(_ ([x:id : τ_in:type] ...) e) ≫ [[x ≫ x- : τ_in.norm] ... ⊢ e ≫ e- ⇒ τ_out] ------- [⊢ (λ- (x- ...) e-) ⇒ (→ τ_in.norm ... τ_out)]] [(_ (x:id ...) e) ⇐ (~→ τ_in ... τ_out) ≫ [[x ≫ x- : τ_in] ... ⊢ e ≫ e- ⇐ τ_out] --------- [⊢ (λ- (x- ...) e-)]]) ; [ANN] (define-typed-syntax (ann e (~datum :) τ:type) ≫ [⊢ e ≫ e- ⇐ τ.norm] -------- [⊢ e- ⇒ τ.norm]) ; [DATUM] (define-typed-syntax #%datum [(_ . n:integer) ≫ -------- [⊢ (#%datum- . n) ⇒ Int]] [(_ . x) ≫ -------- [#:error (type-error #:src #'x #:msg "Unsupported literal: ~v" #'x)]])

Language features

Feature Supported Example Token
Comments ; A comment
Line Comments ; A comment ;
Semantic Indentation X

- Build the next great programming language · Add · Issues · About · Search · Keywords · Livestreams · Labs · Resources · Acknowledgements

Built with Scroll v164.7.0