@hackage vintage-basic1.0.3

To compile:

cabal configure cabal build

...or with stack:

stack build

To run unit tests:

cabal test

..or with stack:

stack test

To install:

cabal install

...or with stack:

stack install

You can then run the resulting program as

vintbas [<.bas source file> ...]

The monad transformer I created is CPST. Monad transformers are basically monad building-blocks. You start with the identity monad and stack monad transformers on top of it to build a combined monad. The ordering is very important. There are monad transformers in the Control.Monad.Trans library, so I used them. Unfortunately you can't stack any more monad transformers on top of CPST. It has to be on top, because of the type of the shift morphism. The standard ContT transformer is similar to my CPST, but defines callCC, not shift. Take a look at the type of callCC in my code. Notice every time you see a CPST, it is followed by an o. Notice that every other morphism in CPST has the same property, except shift. That is the key to why it's no longer stackable - monad transformers can take only two type parameters, not three. But I like shift and think it's neat that I can define callCC in terms of it and reset, but not vice-versa. So there. Plus, my shift and callCC are rank-3 polymorphic! Nobody else achieves that flexibility.

Other things we could do:

• Pre-check types
• Pre-check labels, generate code in place of labels
• Convert variable references to IORefs Is it easiest to do these with staging?
• Consider sending errors to stderr.
• On syntax error, consider printing line with marked error.