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- Creators: De Luca, Gennaro
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This paper introduces Zenith, a statically typed, functional programming language that compiles to Lua modules. The goal of Zenith is to be used in tandem with Lua, as a secondary language, in which Lua developers can transition potentially unsound programs into Zenith instead. Here developers will be ensured a set of guarantees during compile time, which are provided through Zenith’s language design and type system. This paper formulates the reasoning behind the design choices in Zenith, based on prior work. This paper also provides a basic understanding and intuitions on the Hindley-Milner type system used in Zenith, and the functional programming data types used to encode unsound functions. With these ideas combined, the paper concludes on how Zenith can provide soundness and runtime safety as a language, and how Zenith may be used with Lua to create safe systems.
ContributorsShrestha, Abhash (Author) / De Luca, Gennaro (Thesis advisor) / Bansal, Ajay (Thesis advisor) / Chen, Yinong (Committee member) / Arizona State University (Publisher)
Created2023
DescriptionA two-way deterministic finite pushdown automaton ("2PDA") is developed for the Lua language. This 2PDA is evaluated against both a purpose-built Lua syntax test suite and the test suite used by the reference implementation of Lua, and fully passes both.
ContributorsStevens, Kevin A (Author) / Shoshitaishvili, Yan (Thesis director) / Wang, Ruoyu (Committee member) / School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences (Contributor) / Computer Science and Engineering Program (Contributor, Contributor) / Barrett, The Honors College (Contributor)
Created2020-05