silk

Silk is a practice language based on LLVM which respect to cotton.

try it

1. git clone
2. opam install omake menhir llvm
3. omake
4. ./silk

requirements

• mehir
• llvm

usage

If you run ./silk without any parameters, the binary will read silk program from stdin until EOF. And will output LLVM IR to stdout.

Also ./silk can run with oen parameter that filename to output LLVM bitcode.

syntax

A simple factorial program from examples.

def fact(n:I32):I32 = {
  if n == 0 {
    1
  }
  else {
    n * fact(n-1)
  }
}

def main() = {
  print(fact(5))
}

this program will output 120.

features

• program starts with main function
• integer literals have int32_t type
• function returns last evaluated value
• if/else are expression
• type inference is available
• fully typed recursive function is available
• mutual recursive function is not available even fully typed
• nested function available (not closure! so could not capture variables)

future works

• make blocks as expr
• specify type
• boolean
• float type
• create function scope

and so on

• type inference
• closure

Author

theoldmoon0602

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