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#1

Please take a look at issue #71.

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Here's a summary of PR #71 (already merged):

  • Title: Add Conway Life example program from Programming in occam2
  • Author: dboreham
  • State: Merged
  • Description: Conway Life example program from Programming in occam2 for study of transpiler compatibility
  • Files changed: historical-examples/life.occ (single file added)

It's a merged PR that added a Conway's Game of Life example written in occam2 from a textbook, intended to study how well the transpiler handles it. There are no comments on the PR.

Would you like me to look at the life.occ file and see how well the transpiler handles it?

#2

Yes please.

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Here's a summary of the 7 unsupported features that life.occ exercises:

# Feature Lines Complexity In TODO?
1 Protocol trailing colon (: terminator) 26, 36, 38 Small No
2 Multi-dimensional arrays (decl, params, indexing) 43, 46, 90, 219, 400+ Large No
3 CASE with comma-separated match values ('q', 'Q') 179, 181, 316, 369 Small No
4 PRI ALT 360 Medium Yes
5 SKIP guard in ALT (condition & SKIP) 363 Medium No
6 Parenthesized ALT guard expressions ((expr) & ch ? x) 361, 363 Small No
7 Multi-line abbreviation (IS as continuation) 411-414 Small No

Key takeaways:

  • Multi-dimensional arrays (#2) is by far the biggest gap — it accounts for the majority of errors and requires changes across parser and codegen (declarations like [w][h]CHAN OF TYPE, parameters like [][][]CHAN OF TYPE, and chained indexing like link[x][y][d]).

  • Several small fixes could knock out many errors quickly: protocol trailing colons (#1), CASE comma-separated values (#3), IS as a continuation operator (#7), and parenthesized ALT guards (#6).

  • Many errors are cascading — e.g., the CASE ELSE errors are actually caused by the comma-separated values failing first (ELSE support already works). Similarly, variant protocol receive (control ? CASE) fails because the protocol declarations themselves didn't parse.

  • External dependencies: The program also uses library routines (write.string, write.formatted, terminal.keyboard, terminal.screen) from the KRoC course module, which would need stubs to compile the output.

Would you like me to start working on any of these features?

#3

No, please instead open a set of new issues to cover these unsupported features. That way we can address one at a time with clarity.

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Created all 7 issues:

Issue Feature Complexity
#73 Protocol trailing colon terminator Small
#74 Multi-dimensional arrays (decl, params, indexing) Large
#75 CASE comma-separated match values and ELSE Small
#76 PRI ALT (priority alternation) Medium
#77 SKIP guard in ALT (condition & SKIP) Medium
#78 Parenthesized guard expressions in ALT Small
#79 Multi-line abbreviations (IS as continuation) Small

Each issue includes the occam2 syntax, expected Go output, current error behavior, scope of changes needed, and references to the relevant lines in life.occ.

#4

Thank you. Please also post a summary of your findings on the original bug report.

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#5

Ok thanks. Can you also post a reference to that comment on github issue #72 please?

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#7

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#8

See ya!

#6

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