An Action Environment

  • Authors:

  • Mark van den Brand;Jørgen Iversen;Peter D. Mosses

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Software Engineering, CWI, Kruislaan 413, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands and Instituut voor Informatica en Electrotechniek, Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Weesperzijde 190, NL-1097 ...;BRICS & Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, IT-parken, Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark11Basic Research in Computer Science (www.brics.dk), funded by the Danish National Re ...;BRICS & Department of Computer Science, University of Aarhus, IT-parken, Aabogade 34, DK-8200 Aarhus N, Denmark11Basic Research in Computer Science (www.brics.dk), funded by the Danish National Re ...

  • Venue:
  • Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science (ENTCS)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Some basic programming constructs (e.g., conditional statements) are found in many different programming languages, and can often be included without change when a new language is designed. When writing a semantic description of a language, however, it is usually not possible to reuse parts of previous descriptions without change. This paper introduces a new formalism, ASDF, which has been designed specifically for giving reusable action semantic descriptions of individual language constructs. An initial case study in the use of ASDF has already provided reusable descriptions of all the basic constructs underlying Core ML. The paper also describes the Action Environment, a new environment supporting use and validation of ASDF descriptions. The Action Environment has been implemented on top of the ASF+SDF Meta-Environment, exploiting recent advances in techniques for integration of different formalisms, and inheriting all the main features of the Meta-Environment.