* [ANN] GNU Guile State Machine Compiler (Guile-SMC)
@ 2021-04-24 18:43 Artyom V. Poptsov
2021-04-25 13:40 ` Matt Wette
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From: Artyom V. Poptsov @ 2021-04-24 18:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello Guilers!
I heard some of you like finite state machines. If you love FSM as much
as I do, you may want to take a look on my Guile state machine compiler
(Guile-SMC):
https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-smc
With Guile-SMC, you can generate state machines using state machines,
and then you can use generated state machines to parse other stuff.
Why? Because I noticed that I'm repeating myself each time I'm writing
a parser -- and I hand-crafted several of them already[1, 2] (as you may
know.) Personally I think that it's an unfortunate situation that we,
Guilers, don't have a proper tool for that. I'm hoping that Guile-SMC
will be able to fill this gap.
Some technical details:
Guile-SMC uses PlantUML[3] format for FSM description. It reads this
format and produces a Scheme representation of a FSM that can be applied
to another format.
(It's still possible to use Guile-SMC to manually write state machines
using a syntax that loosely resembles state transition tables. You can
find an example of it in 'modules/smc/puml.scm' file.)
The internal Guile-SMC representation of a FSM consists of a hash-table
for fast state lookup; in turn, each state holds links to other states
that it transitions to, essentially producing a directed graph.
Each transition consists of a guard (a predicate that is used to check
if the transition can be made), an action (a procedure that does the
work) and a target state to transition to if the guard returns #t.
There's an example of a PlantUML parser that generates a state machine
from it and applies it to PlantUML format itself that in turn produces a
new state machine (which is pretty cool as far as I understand.)
Also there's a basic state machine validator that reports dead-ends and
unreachable states.
It should be possible to produce a Scheme code from the intermediate
representation -- that will remove PlantUML-to-Scheme compilation time
from an application cold-boot time.
This is a work-in-progress though and some API is still in development,
so please be patient and report any problems. Suggestions are very
welcome too.
Thanks,
- Artyom
References:
1: https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-dsv
2: https://github.com/artyom-poptsov/guile-ics
3: http://www.plantuml.com/
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