It turns out that some planned additions to the parser make it so that
the map type definition can be ambiguous. As a result, this patch
updates the definition so that the map definition is not confused with
an open curly bracket anywhere.
Thanks to pestle and stbenjamin for their help understanding yacc!
This adds support for the class definition statement and the include
statement which produces the output from the corresponding class.
The classes in this language support optional input parameters.
In contrast with other tools, the class is *not* a singleton, although
it can be used as one. Using include with equivalent input parameters
will cause the class to act as a singleton, although it can also be used
to produce distinct output.
The output produced by including a class is actually a list of
statements (a prog) which is ultimately a list of resources and edges.
This is different from functions which produces values.
This allows you to omit a resource parameter programmatically, and
avoids the need of an `undef` or `nil` in our language, which would
contribute to programming errors, crashes, and overall reduced safety.
This is an initial implementation of the mgmt language. It is a
declarative (immutable) functional, reactive, domain specific
programming language. It is intended to be a language that is:
* safe
* powerful
* easy to reason about
With these properties, we hope this language, and the mgmt engine will
allow you to model the real-time systems that you'd like to automate.
This also includes a number of other associated changes. Sorry for the
large size of this patch.