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+# This file is part of NIT ( http://www.nitlanguage.org ).
+#
+# Copyright 2019 Louis-Vincent Boudreault <lv.boudreault95@gmail.com>
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This module is only used to generate `functional_types.nit`
+module functional_gen
+
+# Generates of an array of formal type as strings.
+# The size of the array equals the arity of the class.
+fun gen_generics(nargs: Int): Array[String]
+do
+ var args = new Array[String]
+ for i in [0..nargs[ do
+ args.push("A" + i.to_s)
+ end
+ return args
+end
+
+class RoutineTemplate
+ var classname: String
+ var nb_generics: Int
+ var supers: Array[String]
+ var has_return: Bool
+ var annotation = "is abstract"
+
+ redef fun to_s
+ do
+ var generics = gen_generics(nb_generics)
+ var params = new Array[String]
+ for g in generics do
+ params.push(g.to_lower + ": " + g)
+ end
+ var signature = ""
+ if params.length > 0 then signature = "({params.join(",")})"
+ if has_return then
+ signature += ": RESULT"
+ generics.push("RESULT")
+ end
+ var classparam = ""
+ if generics.length > 0 then
+ classparam = "[{generics.join(",")}]"
+ end
+ var superdecls = new Array[String]
+ for s in supers do superdecls.add("\tsuper {s}")
+ var classdef = new Array[String]
+ classdef.add("class {classname}{classparam}")
+ classdef.add("{superdecls.join("\n")}")
+ classdef.add("\tfun call{signature} {annotation}")
+ classdef.add("end")
+ return classdef.join("\n")
+ end
+end
+
+# Writes all functional types
+fun generate_functypes(n: Int, writer: Writer)
+do
+ writer.write("""
+# This file is part of NIT ( http://www.nitlanguage.org ).
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+# http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# This module provides functional type to represents various function forms.
+# Function types can hold up to 20 arguments. The type `Fun` is for function
+# (input and output) and `Proc` is for procedure (input but no output).
+# This file is automatically generated, do not edit it manually.
+module functional_types
+
+interface Routine
+end
+interface Fun
+ super Routine
+end
+interface Proc
+ super Routine
+end
+""")
+ var templates = new Array[String]
+ for i in [0..n[ do
+ var t1 = new RoutineTemplate("Fun{i}", i, ["Fun"], true)
+ var t2 = new RoutineTemplate("Proc{i}", i, ["Proc"], false)
+ templates.push(t1.to_s)
+ templates.push(t2.to_s)
+ end
+ writer.write(templates.join("\n"))
+end
+
+var fw = new FileWriter.open("functional_types.nit")
+generate_functypes(20, fw)