Lambda Mountain

LM aims to provide a convenient interface to formally encode a variety of big-step semantics. This project is a User Inferface for existing theoretical frameworks. The text language here is a simple encoding of basic lambda calculus and types. Future work will also be done to provide a zoom-in/zoom-out interface for rules.

Installation

LM is currently working towards a bootstrap release. Until then Rust and Cargo are required.

After installing Rust, LM can be installed with

cargo install lambda_mountain

Syntax and Formatting

In a file hello_world.lm put a main function

main := λ_. (
   print_s hello_world
);

Compile hello_world from a shell

lambda_mountain -o hello_world hello_world.lm

Run the result

./hello_world
[stdout] hello_world

How is eval-soft different from eval-hard?

eval-soft attempts to evaluate an expression to normal form with two restrictions:

• the evaluation must not diverge
• the result must be referentially transparent

eval-hard does not have any restrictions.

Mascot

Doby was a donkey that refused to cross a bridge on the way back from a camping trek. He was left for dead in the rough wilderness with winter approaching. Somehow he survived the whole winter under that bridge and was discovered by the game warden the next year.