This package provides an engine for evaluation of interaction nets encoded in a language that is similar to the refined interaction calculus as described in arXiv:1702.06092. Implementation implicitly extends interaction systems with McCarthy's amb as a nondeterministic agent and also allows side effects written in JavaScript.

This engine is used by Macro Lambda Calculus.

Interface

require("inet-lib") returns a function of one string argument that defines an interaction net to be evaluated. When called, the function keeps applying interaction rules until its normal form has been reached with no more active pairs left, then returns this object which all side effects are executed with (initialized to {} before reduction starts).

For developing and testing purposes, the package also exports two additional functions .prepare(src, fmt) and .debug(), where src is a string that defines an interaction net, and optional fmt argument is a user-defined function used to format arbitrary data attached to agents in debug output. The .debug() function applies a single reduction step to the interaction net defined by the previous .prepare(src, fmt) call and returns a human-readable string representation of the current interaction net state.

Grammar

Input consists of three parts: interaction rules, initial configuration, and optional initial side effect.

%token MARK /* "$$" */
%token NAME /* [A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9]* */
%token CODE /* \{[^}]+\} */

%%

prog : rset MARK init tail
     ;
rset : /* empty */
     | rset side CODE side ';'
     ;
side : cell
     | cell '[' list ']'
     ;
tree : leaf
     | cell '(' list ')'
     ;
list : tree
     | list ',' tree
     ;
leaf : cell
     | NAME
     ;
cell : need NAME
     | need NAME '_' CODE
     ;
need : '!'
     | '\'
     ;
init : /* empty */
     | init tree '=' tree ';'
     ;
tail : /* empty */
     | MARK CODE
     ;

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Anton Salikhmetov

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