See also:

  • Scheme/Lisp/Racket

Macros

Syntax vs datum. Syntax usually needs source locations tagged for good error reporting at minimum. String-> String or unannotated Sexp->Sexp are not going to be able to

CPP macros are string to string. Preprocessor style. They do annotate original source locations though.

[bindings as sets of scopes(https://www.cs.utah.edu/plt/scope-sets/) “Let’s Build a Hygienic Macro Expander” by Matthew Flatt syntax objects

Hmm. macros are close to term rewriting. Quoting is a way of talking about syntax and meaning… Hmm. egglog macros expander if hygienic needs this stuff… We often want to switch between term and semantics views. Stepping out of the binding table. scope vs context a set of scopes is perhaps like an eclass of scopes metatheoryjl possibly had thoughts on this. generatedfunctions etc https://pl.ewi.tudelft.nl/research/projects/scope-graphs/ scope graphs a theory of name rtesolution

https://github.blog/2021-12-09-introducing-stack-graphs/ https://docs.rs/stack-graphs/0.10.1/stack_graphs/ Stack graphs at github for resoling references. This is an interesting dataflow/datalog feeling problem actually He mentions that dataflow is intertwined https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2R1PTGcwrE&ab_channel=StrangeLoopConference incrmenetal zero-config code nave partial path concat… proof? groupoid? tree sitter has patterns and rules and now graph construction? This does

Macros in Lean4

Macros like rust. Languages that aren’t uniform like lisp

Honu

[paper describing different generative programming systems] “micros”

A Third Perspective on Hygiene

See also: Partial Evaluation.

Raw macros work on syntax. Hygienic macros pay more attention to scope. They attach scope identification data to the syntax tree.

dynamic scope and lexical scope Without macros, the scope of binding forms is straightoforward. With macros,

sets of scopes - Flatt. Does this lattice maybe have something

Syntax objects in racket - More than just s-expressions. Annotated with source locations but also scope.

syntax-rules Syntax-case

What about gensymming?

QuasiQuotes

fstrings / string interpolation is a poor mans quasiquote. But not that poor.

Quine invented qasuiquotation in the 40s https://3e8.org/pub/scheme/doc/Quasiquotation%20in%20Lisp%20(Bawden).pdf Quasiquotation bawden

Staged Metaprogramming

staging a symbolic executor with algerbaic effects Zero-cost Effect Handlers by Staging Designing Efficient Systems with Multi-Stage Programmig… squid, conext types, path dependent types,

MetaOCaml

Template Haskel

Scala thing

Towers of Interpreters

I wonder about the relationship of macros, staged metaprogramming, and towers of interpreters and these things

Nada Amin is a name I associate https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/amin-popl18.pdf

http://pllab.is.ocha.ac.jp/~asai/Black/ Black meta interpretive

Schemes that can jump into the macro metalevel.

And they also can lazily construct the metalevels such that there is an infinite tower of them (-1, -2 ,-3, -4)

[programming should eat itself nada amin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKj4hYic5A&ab_channel=StrangeLoopConference n)

“3-lisp” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32614795

An old paper that is really bizarre metaphysical considerations https://ics.uci.edu/~jajones/INF102-S18/readings/17_Smith84.pdf (edited)

Brian Cantwell 1982 https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/15961

staged minikkanren https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1010688093?t=01h34m31s lisp symposium 2021 unified approach solving seven programming prbs icfp 2017 collasping towers of interpeters Pink - stage polymorphic evaluator quoted unification. pushes it off to later stage augment state of minikanren with code? (delayed goals?) partial reduction - logic programs. Partial evaluation of logic programs? decompiler from a compiler? Huh.

reflective towers? What and why? 3-lisp Brown - Wand Blond - Danvy Black - Asai Pink

errors bring up to a meta level. (base-eval) (exit ‘hello) EM - eval at metalevel. metacontinuation is an inifnite stream of state Each state represents “registers” of a level. (env, cont) Lazy so we only build levels as we need them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrKj4hYic5A&ab_channel=StrangeLoopConference metalevels

Modality

Go meta being some kind of modality https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/237721.237788

Information Hidiing

Relational model of information types, parametricity, and staged metaprogramming have common ideas.

Code Combinators

The most obvious way of code generation is to just print the code you’d write by hand. You can build up combinators to do this for you instead of directly manipulating strings all over your codebase.

type 'a code = string
(* or alternatively [formatter -> unit] *)

let int (i : int) : int code = string_of_int int
let app : ('a -> 'b) code -> 'b code ->
let lam (f : 'a code -> 'b code) : ('a -> 'b) code = 
let let_ (x : 'a code) (in_ : 'a code -> 'b code) = 
    let fresh = fresh () in 
    "let %s = %s in %s" fresh x (in_ fresh)
(* let module_. first classe modules *)
(* toplevel defintion *)
let comment (com : string) (c : 'a code) : 'a code =
  "(* %s *) %s" com c (* additionally we should escape comment (* *) characters in [com] *)
let defs = ref [] (* not going to type check. Maybe it should be a module? Maybe it will actually. code = string is exposed *)
let def (name : string) (body : 'a code) : unit =
  defs := (name, body) :: !defs


(* (args : ? code list) ( : ? code list -> 'b code) =
  register? *)

I didn’t realize it at the time, but this is what I was doing in my coq post.

If you use HOAS, you can feel safe about variable capture.

If you make type 'a code = 'a * string you can

Cross Stage Persistance

Same thing as [cross phase persistence](https://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/eval-model.html#%28part._cross-phase._persistent-modules%29?

Taking the code printing model, you need to serialize some things. The things that come from other modules can be shared. In metaocaml, you can also share It is easy to for example take a compile time int and produce a string that can be evaluated to that int. string_of_int :

CSP vs lifting. Oleg talks about copying vs sharing. serialization isa form of

Partial history of partial evaluation

target = mix(interp,s)
comp = mix(mix,interp)
cogen = mix(mix,mix)  compiler geerator

Jones optimality Binding time analysis Are the staging annotation automatically inferred or not? Two level languages Kleene’s s-m-n theorem

Stream Fusion

Strymonas

Even better stream fusion type ‘a arr = Aof int (int -> ‘a) type ‘a arr = A of int (int -> (‘a -> unit) -> unit)

Hutton’s Razor

type aexpr = 
   Add of aexpr * aexpr | Lit of int

type aexpr_st = 
  AddS of aexpr_st * aexpr_st | Lit of int
type aexpr_dyn =  (* Not mutually recursive actually. Makes sense *)
  AddDS of aexpr_dyn * aexpr_st | AddSS | AddSD | Var of string

type val_st = int
type a_expr_eval = 
  AddDS of aexpr_eval * val_st |

What is the relationship of marshalling and partial evaluation? Any? I can’t really make new code in some sense, only closures. I could remove some interpetation overhead, but only that which could be done via compile :: Prog -> (a -> b) anyhow. Maybe the key is the sense of that (a -> b). Is it capturing Prog when partially applied or not? Maybe a language like rust whose clsoures are more explicit about capturing.

Code combinators. One can literally use type 'a code = string and printf. Correctly introducing lambdas is a pain. Is a gensym enough? Make code a more complex type?

type 'a code = string

let lit i : int code = string_of_int i

Two Level Types

peridot two level lambda calc prottype

rompf staging algerbaic effects

scheme bibliogrphy

Memory layout and staging part 1: type-passing polymorphism, two-level type theory introduction Kovacs

https://github.com/fpottier/metaocaml-hello-world huh. Running metaocaml through dune is more involed than I realized https://github.com/fpottier/loop - extracting loops form coq no axioms If I wanted to do a picture perfect strymonas copy for example.

“Coq as a Metaprogramming Framework”

Sam’s parsers https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3453483.3454053 https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2019/11079/pdf/LIPIcs-ITP-2019-24.pdf Costar and vermillion https://github.com/slasser/vermillion

staging a relational interpreter - nada amin multilevel langage

https://github.com/metaocaml/metaocaml-bibliography

https://wiki.hh.se/wg211/index.php/Main_Page program generation working group

https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.81.8435&rep=rep1&type=pdf pattern matching via partial evaluation

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46614561/implementing-partial-evaluation-in-swi-prolog The clause/2 predicate is like a macro? https://github.com/leuschel/logen https://github.com/leuschel/ecce https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35261361/prolog-generate-unique-symbol gensym is gensym sufficient for making eigenvariables like lambdaprolog? interp(Env, lam(B), lam(B)). % this is wrong. interp(Env, app(F,X), R) :- interp( Env, F, lam(B)), interp(Env, X, X’), interp([ X’ | Env], B, R ) interp([H | T], z, H). interp([H | T], s(X), R) :- interp(T, X, R). % nah this ain’t right. we need to do raising and lowering.

interp(Env, var(X), R) :- lookup(X, Env, R). interp(Env, lam(X,B), lam(X,B)). % X not in Env? interp(Env, app(F,X), R) :- interp( Env, F, lam(V,B)), interp(Env, X, X1), gensym(var, V), interp([ V-X1 | Env], B, R )

http://okmij.org/ftp/Prolog/index.html#lambda-calc - he implements a pure copy_term using gensym basically

Staged logic programming is kind of like CLP. CLP collects up constraints to be solved later (at future stage). Instead staged logic programming is collecting up constraints in the original unification language. Can I not make new clauses? To fully do this at compile time requires that the compile time query terminates. Otherwise i need to jump between compile and runtime (which is how clp works)

interp(plus(x,y,z), q)

What I’d expect staged minikanren to look like is a minikanren that outputs minikanren clauses. We should be able to break down at compile time minikanren programs to base unifications. But what about things that bind to multiple results? I guess we could insert conde for as many results as there are? Or we could maintain the substitutions structure across

(conde (== q 3) (== q 4)) `(appendo ,q ) ==> (conde (appendo 3) (appendo 4))

In prolog, building code doesn’t feel crazy.

cogen in six lines https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.51.7918&rep=rep1&type=pdf

What if you defunctionalize and apply the trick to the stack? going to machine and back sounds reminscent of supercompiling. Interplay of Positive and negative.

fun x -> (4 + (x + 7)) fun x k ->

data Stack = ToDORight Expr | LeftDone Int | Ret

“The Trick” is eta expansion.

Supercompilation is not like super optimizers. Super means supervise apparently. The idea I think is that you execute the program on a symbolic ish machine view all the states, and recompile that to a new program. States themselves are kind of expressions. Refal is very reminsicent of abstract machines and the classical logic thing, with focuses and the importance of patterns. It is also hyper bizarre

Another possible thing is that it is partial evaluation + memoization. Is this distinct from common subexpression collection?

Can I supercompile addition expressions? Boolean expressions?

The “trick” they call splitters and things.

For addition, perhaps it could be nice to split unknown x as 0 or not zero. Not always useful.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9067545/what-is-supercompilation supercopliation is partial evaluation plus other stuff. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/supercomp-by-eval.pdf?from=https%3A%2F%2Fresearch.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Fum%2Fpeople%2Fsimonpj%2Fpapers%2Fsupercompilation%2Fsupercomp-by-eval.pdf supercompliatiob by example - bolingbroke and peyton jones

partial evaluation as evaluation inference rules with some removed or staging them. It does feel kind of like the bidirectional thing. Take a system and enhance it or duplicate it with extra annotations.

https://twitter.com/codydroux/status/1382019718224211975?s=20 cody and andras kovacs.

Commutation rule / conversion CSP/orthogonality

Type polarity is realted to PE? neagtive positive. Push pull streams strymonas. “The Trick” is an eta expansion. Maybe if cubical does something good to coinductives, then it does something nice to PE?

https://twitter.com/jjcarett2/status/1381727925314142212?s=20 carette and kmett takliong about something Online PE considered fast? Clearly i don’t understand online vs offline Chu constructions. Something about linear logic Supercompilation = +ve -ve info flowe. Huh that actually brings up google results https://www.reddit.com/r/compsci/comments/1e7cs1/supercompilation_by_evaluation_pdf/ https://themonadreader.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/super-final.pdf http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.51.881 a positive supercompier https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03037260 Program transformation system based on generalized partial computation Yoshihiko Futamura, Zenjiro Konishi & Robert Glück Hmm. Carette has either a strange model of terminology of http://www.xoft.ru/~anklimov/papers/1993.Occam's.Razor.in.Metacompuation.pdf occams razor in metacomputation. “Propagation of inequations” according to carette “If you avoid packing unpacking online PE is fast” What could this be referring to? finally tagless?

Something I’m been wondering about is the relationship of symbolic execution and partial evaluation. The opaqueness of future stage code is very similar to the opaqueness of a symbolic variable. It feels like the techniques of staged metaprogramming should be useful for writing more easily verifiable code. Loop unrolling as a staged metaprogamming thing vs unrolling for BMC Known compile time structure unpacking Abtract analysis boosting CPS and ? What if I used the ASP techniques to build parser combinators that are easily verified via Z3. In python?

But I dunno. Staged metaprogrmming example 1 is loop unrolling if the bounds of the loop are known at compile time. This is also of course what one wants to do for symbolic execution

Example 2 is sturcture unpacking if the structure is known at compile time (removing record construction destruction overhead). This is also what you want to do for symbolic evluation

Case splitting (The trick) feels like path exploration. Where you make the queries along a particular path

The First Set Last set stuff is the familiar idea of using an abstract intepretation result to boost an SMT query

CPS trasnformation and let lifting = ????

Staged minikanren Rosette

Virtual machine compiling?

Of course you want to simplify as much at compile time

Partial evaluation in Julia.

Partial evaluation is when you have a program and you supply a portion of it’s arguments ahead of time. In light of this information, there may be significant simplifications that can occur, although because of still missing arguments, the computation cannot be completely computed. The unknown input variables are blockers of computation. You could have some arbitrary rewriting simplication system do this, but it is more principled to have this partial evaluator take a form that is systematically connected to a standard evaluator.

  • Loop unrolling - If you know the bounds o the loop ahead of time
  • constexpr -

  • Pattern matching - Unroll the pattern into

One way this might happen (and it is illuminating) is to consider a deeply embedded DSL where you explicitly represent the AST of your language of interest as a data type. However there is a shallower approach available when your language offers the appropriate compile-time computation facilities. Julia has a lisp-y quasiquoting macro system that is really neat.

If you like o think of it this way, it is that analog of string interpolation.

:( 1 +  $(2 + 3) )
# :(1 + 5)

The Power Example

Tricks

The Trick

A big trick is that one can convert a runtime value into a compile time value by guarding under a runtime check. The nonobvious step in refining a program to be partially evaluatable is that you may have to insert extra runtime checks than you would ordinarily use but the payoff is that the information you gain at compile time is worth the cost of the runtime check. In other words it is case splitting

One simple example of this is special case unrolling small n.

function foo(x::Char)
  if x > 9
  else
end



function foo(x::Expr)
    :(if $foo == 1
    
    
    )
end

Let lifting

CPS

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Carette generative programming course https://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/CAS761/F2018/index.html https://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/~carette/CAS761/F2020/index.html

Mjolnir - julia partial eval

https://mpickering.github.io/papers/parsley-icfp.pdf

I have more stuff in the coq metaocaml post https://www.philipzucker.com/metaocaml-style-partial-evaluation-in-coq/

http://wry.me/~darius/writings/peval/ - a hacker’s intro to partial evaluation

tutorial notes on partial evaluation - consel and danvy 93 https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Charles_Consel/publication/2810226_Tutorial_Notes_on_Partial_Evaluation/links/54ba866e0cf24e50e9403382/Tutorial-Notes-on-Partial-Evaluation.pdf From rmpf thesis Partial Evaluation of Pattern Matching in Strings dnavy 89 Fast partial evaluation of pattern matching in strings danvy 03 Implementing Multistage Languages Using ASTs, Gensym, and Reflection - xavier taha

Shifting the stage: staging with delimited control Closing the stage: from staged code to typed closures

https://www.cs.purdue.edu/homes/rompf/papers/ofenbeck-gpce17.pdf staing for generic programming in space and time rompg

ones, N.D., Gomard, C.K., Sestoft, P.: Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation. International Series in Computer Science https://cs.stackexchange.com/questions/2869/what-are-staged-functions-conceptually

Generative Programming” by Czarnecki and Eisenecke

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7/4/20

Partial evaluation has some tricks

Basically

  1. Do CPS
  2. Specialize branching

Partial evluation of AExp, BExp

staged-fun. And this is already available in a friendly Haskell compiler near you.

It really helps to have a system where you can see the result of the partial evaluation. You may be surprisied by what you see. Coq is decent. But you can also get the dump of

The optimizations that partial evaluation achieves are also I suspect the optimization achieved by the folklore CPS transformation for making faster code. Part of the optimization an optimzing compiler is partial evaluation.

Some of the things that people like to do in the type system can also (perhaps even more naturally) be done with a partial evaluation system.

In systems like Ocaml and Haskell, the types are fully erased at runtime, so that any type level computation becomes compile time computation.

One thing that is done is to convert something into a special type by checking that it obeys teh predicate. Like taking [a] -> Maybe (Vec 10 a) needs to confirm that the length of the list is in fact 10. Then that fact is recorded for further use, inviting possible optimizations. But we can do basically the same thing. is_length_10 : code [a] -> code bool. And type vec = (int * code [a])

Like what about a (code int, Z3.expr) as a kind of refined int type.

Coq is from one persepctive a kind of janky restrictive Ocaml with steroidal metaprogramming capabilities.

We can use this to perform rewrite rules. It isn’t quite as straightforward as you might hope. When you perform rewrites in a proof, I’m not so clear how to get the new forms reflected back. But there is at least one trick, you can use an existential variable and then unify it at the end.

The canonical fusion is map f . map g = map (f . g) It avoids two passes over the same structure. An even better fusion is build/fold fusion. If you build up a big structre just to consume it immediately, this can often be fused into

Here are some examples using rewrite rules to fuse

<code>Lemma idea2: { q : list nat -> list nat | forall l,  map S (map S (map S l)) = q l}.
Proof. eexists. intros. Print map_map.
       (* assert  (map S (map S (map S l)) = map S (map S (map S l))). *)
       pose (map S (map S (map S l))) as opaque_lhs .
       assert (opaque_lhs =  map S (map S (map S l))).
       reflexivity. 
       rewrite map_map in H. rewrite map_map in H.  unfold opaque_lhs in H. rewrite H. auto. Defined.
Print idea2.</code>

Recursion schemes in coq.

MetaOcaml in coq. A similar trick can be. Coq by it’s nature doesn’t appear to be so super concerened about efficiency differences in implementations. Things that are equal under. MetaOcaml allows controlled inlining and other partial evaluations at compile time in order to create more efficient programs that remain clearly written.

MetaCoq. Why have I not even downloaded it?

https://youtu.be/fJ5HHvWZWfc?t=7584 Modal analysis of metaprogramming

This reminds of well-typed ASTs. Sometimes those well typed asts have an explicit slot for contexts. In some sense, an introspective well typed metaprogramming langueg should reflect the surface language into a well typed ast. Pure opaqueness is a cop out. It is acceptable but not desired.

box letbox vs box unbox