README.md

How to use Will

The Will compiler is implemented in Haskell and right now all its source code is in the file will.hs. So compile it with, for example: ghc will.hs

To compile a Will source file: ./will hello.will

The compiler will output one XML file for each context in the Will file. For example, if the source file contains:

in Firefox, Google Chrome:
command 1
command 2

in Terminal:
command 3

in Firefox:
command 4

3 files will be generated, one with the commands to be executed in the context "Firefox" and the other 2 for the contexts "Google Chrome" and "Terminal". These files have extension ".commandstext" and can be directly imported into Dragon (for Mac).

Project overview

Please refer to document docs/overview.md

Language specification

Please refer to document docs/language-specification.md

Implementation

The functions that implement each compiler phase are grouped together and separated by a set of comments naming each compiler phase. They are chained together in the function "compile" in the bottom of the file.

To do

Known limitations

• The "vendor" should be the username of the current loged in user

Improvements

• Better testing
• Use heredocs or another approach to avoid overly concat strings
• Re-factor code to avoid using unsafe I/O
• Break the code in multiple modules
• Better parser error messages with <?>
• Improve documentation

New features

• Read multiple input files from the command line
• Optional words in command trigger