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Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language. Martin Grabmüller and Petra Hofstedt {magr,ph}@cs.tu-berlin.de Fakultät IV – Elektrotechnik und Informatik Technische Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany. Constraint Imperative Programming. Imperative Stateful, time-dependent

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Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

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  1. Turtle: A Constraint ImperativeProgramming Language Martin Grabmüller and Petra Hofstedt {magr,ph}@cs.tu-berlin.de Fakultät IV – Elektrotechnik und Informatik Technische Universität Berlin Berlin, Germany

  2. Constraint Imperative Programming • Imperative • Stateful, time-dependent • Useful for modelling interactive systems • Side-effecting I/O • Constraint-based • Declarative • High-level problem specifications • Separate solving algorithm • Constraint imperative programming combines advantages • Suitable algorithms for varying requirements • Clean specification and efficient execution Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  3. Turtle: Language Design • Imperative base language • Procedural language (procedures, statements, loops, assignments) • Functional extensions (HOF, algebraic data types, polymorphism) • Constraint programming extensions • Constrainable variables • Constraint statements • User-defined constraints • Constraint solvers Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  4. x: 0 ... Constraint Extensions • Constrainable variables var x: !int := var 0; • Constraint type • Variable object • Constraint statements require 0 <= x and x <= 0 in y := x; end; • Constraint conjunction • Body statements • Constraint hierarchies Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  5. Constraint Extensions • User-defined constraints • Abstract over constraint conjunctions constraint domain(x: !int, min: int, max: int) require min <= x and x <= max; end; require domain(x, 2, 9) and domain(y, 4, 6); • Constraint solvers • Maintain conjunction of active constraints • Check satisfiability and calculate variable assignments Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  6. Example 1 constraint all_different (l: list of !int) 2 while (tl l <> null) do 3 var ll: list of !int := tl l; 4 while (ll <> null) do 5 require hd l <> hd ll; 6 ll := tl ll; 7 end; 8 l := tl l; 9 end; 10 end; 11 var a: !int := var 0, b: !int := var 0, c: !int := var 0; 12 require all_different ([a, b, c]) in ... end; Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  7. Constraint Analysis var y: int := 4; var x: !int := var 0; require 10*x + 10 > 3*y - 1; • Constant expression: -11 + 3*y • Constrainable variable with coefficient: 10*x Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  8. Code Generation 10*x > -10 + 3*y – 1 Constant expression: -11 + 3*y Constrainable variable and coefficient:10*x 1 push-constant 0 // constraint strength '0' 2 push-constant 3 // constraint kind `>' 3 push-constant 1 // number of constrainable variables 4 push-variable y // calculate the constant term... 5 load-constant 3 6 mul 7 push 8 load-constant -11 9 add 10 push 11 push-variable x // load constrainable variable object 12 push-constant 10 13 add-constraint // add the constraint to the store Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

  9. Conclusion • Turtle: constraint imperative programming language • Imperative base language • Functional language features • Constraint extensions • Implementation • Standard compiler and constraint analysis • Run-time system with garbage collection and OS interface • Library with utility modules • Future work • More and better constraint solvers • Language support for nondeterministic computation Turtle: A Constraint Imperative Programming Language

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