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author	Adam Chlipala <adam@chlipala.net>
date	Sun, 09 Feb 2014 19:29:36 -0500
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adamc@524	12 \begin{document}
adamc@524	13
adamc@524	14 \title{The Ur/Web Manual}
adamc@524	15 \author{Adam Chlipala}
adamc@524	16
adamc@524	17 \maketitle
adamc@524	18
adamc@540	19 \tableofcontents
adamc@540	20
adamc@554	21
adamc@554	22 \section{Introduction}
adamc@554	23
adam@1797	24 \emph{Ur} is a programming language designed to introduce richer type system features into functional programming in the tradition of ML and Haskell. Ur is functional, pure, statically typed, and strict. Ur supports a powerful kind of \emph{metaprogramming} based on \emph{type-level computation with type-level records}.
adamc@554	25
adamc@554	26 \emph{Ur/Web} is Ur plus a special standard library and associated rules for parsing and optimization. Ur/Web supports construction of dynamic web applications backed by SQL databases. The signature of the standard library is such that well-typed Ur/Web programs ``don't go wrong'' in a very broad sense. Not only do they not crash during particular page generations, but they also may not:
adamc@554	27
adamc@554	28 \begin{itemize}
adamc@554	29 \item Suffer from any kinds of code-injection attacks
adamc@554	30 \item Return invalid HTML
adamc@554	31 \item Contain dead intra-application links
adamc@554	32 \item Have mismatches between HTML forms and the fields expected by their handlers
adamc@652	33 \item Include client-side code that makes incorrect assumptions about the ``AJAX''-style services that the remote web server provides
adamc@554	34 \item Attempt invalid SQL queries
adamc@652	35 \item Use improper marshaling or unmarshaling in communication with SQL databases or between browsers and web servers
adamc@554	36 \end{itemize}
adamc@554	37
adamc@554	38 This type safety is just the foundation of the Ur/Web methodology. It is also possible to use metaprogramming to build significant application pieces by analysis of type structure. For instance, the demo includes an ML-style functor for building an admin interface for an arbitrary SQL table. The type system guarantees that the admin interface sub-application that comes out will always be free of the above-listed bugs, no matter which well-typed table description is given as input.
adamc@554	39
adamc@652	40 The Ur/Web compiler also produces very efficient object code that does not use garbage collection. These compiled programs will often be even more efficient than what most programmers would bother to write in C. The compiler also generates JavaScript versions of client-side code, with no need to write those parts of applications in a different language.
adamc@554	41
adamc@554	42 \medskip
adamc@554	43
adamc@554	44 The official web site for Ur is:
adamc@554	45 \begin{center}
adamc@554	46 \url{http://www.impredicative.com/ur/}
adamc@554	47 \end{center}
adamc@554	48
adamc@555	49
adamc@555	50 \section{Installation}
adamc@555	51
adamc@555	52 If you are lucky, then the following standard command sequence will suffice for installation, in a directory to which you have unpacked the latest distribution tarball.
adamc@555	53
adamc@555	54 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@555	55 ./configure
adamc@555	56 make
adamc@555	57 sudo make install
adamc@555	58 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	59
adam@1523	60 Some other packages must be installed for the above to work. At a minimum, you need a standard UNIX shell, with standard UNIX tools like sed and GCC (or an alternate C compiler) in your execution path; MLton, the whole-program optimizing compiler for Standard ML; and the development files for the OpenSSL C library. As of this writing, in the ``testing'' version of Debian Linux, this command will install the more uncommon of these dependencies:
adamc@896	61 \begin{verbatim}
adam@1368	62 apt-get install mlton libssl-dev
adamc@896	63 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	64
adamc@896	65 To build programs that access SQL databases, you also need one of these client libraries for supported backends.
adamc@555	66 \begin{verbatim}
adam@1960	67 apt-get install libpq-dev libmysqlclient-dev libsqlite3-dev
adamc@555	68 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	69
adamc@555	70 It is also possible to access the modules of the Ur/Web compiler interactively, within Standard ML of New Jersey. To install the prerequisites in Debian testing:
adamc@555	71 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@555	72 apt-get install smlnj libsmlnj-smlnj ml-yacc ml-lpt
adamc@555	73 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	74
adamc@555	75 To begin an interactive session with the Ur compiler modules, run \texttt{make smlnj}, and then, from within an \texttt{sml} session, run \texttt{CM.make "src/urweb.cm";}. The \texttt{Compiler} module is the main entry point.
adamc@555	76
adamc@896	77 To run an SQL-backed application with a backend besides SQLite, you will probably want to install one of these servers.
adamc@555	78
adamc@555	79 \begin{verbatim}
adam@1960	80 apt-get install postgresql mysql-server
adamc@555	81 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	82
adamc@555	83 To use the Emacs mode, you must have a modern Emacs installed. We assume that you already know how to do this, if you're in the business of looking for an Emacs mode. The demo generation facility of the compiler will also call out to Emacs to syntax-highlight code, and that process depends on the \texttt{htmlize} module, which can be installed in Debian testing via:
adamc@555	84
adamc@555	85 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@555	86 apt-get install emacs-goodies-el
adamc@555	87 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	88
adam@1441	89 If you don't want to install the Emacs mode, run \texttt{./configure} with the argument \texttt{--without-emacs}.
adam@1441	90
adam@1523	91 Even with the right packages installed, configuration and building might fail to work. After you run \texttt{./configure}, you will see the values of some named environment variables printed. You may need to adjust these values to get proper installation for your system. To change a value, store your preferred alternative in the corresponding UNIX environment variable, before running \texttt{./configure}. For instance, here is how to change the list of extra arguments that the Ur/Web compiler will pass to the C compiler and linker on every invocation. Some older GCC versions need this setting to mask a bug in function inlining.
adamc@555	92
adamc@555	93 \begin{verbatim}
adam@1523	94 CCARGS=-fno-inline ./configure
adamc@555	95 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	96
adam@1523	97 Since the author is still getting a handle on the GNU Autotools that provide the build system, you may need to do some further work to get started, especially in environments with significant differences from Linux (where most testing is done). The variables \texttt{PGHEADER}, \texttt{MSHEADER}, and \texttt{SQHEADER} may be used to set the proper C header files to include for the development libraries of PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite, respectively. To get libpq to link, one OS X user reported setting \texttt{CCARGS="-I/opt/local/include -L/opt/local/lib/postgresql84"}, after creating a symbolic link with \texttt{ln -s /opt/local/include/postgresql84 /opt/local/include/postgresql}.
adamc@555	98
adamc@555	99 The Emacs mode can be set to autoload by adding the following to your \texttt{.emacs} file.
adamc@555	100
adamc@555	101 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@555	102 (add-to-list 'load-path "/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/urweb-mode")
adamc@555	103 (load "urweb-mode-startup")
adamc@555	104 \end{verbatim}
adamc@555	105
adamc@555	106 Change the path in the first line if you chose a different Emacs installation path during configuration.
adamc@555	107
adamc@555	108
adamc@556	109 \section{Command-Line Compiler}
adamc@556	110
adam@1604	111 \subsection{\label{cl}Project Files}
adamc@556	112
adamc@556	113 The basic inputs to the \texttt{urweb} compiler are project files, which have the extension \texttt{.urp}. Here is a sample \texttt{.urp} file.
adamc@556	114
adamc@556	115 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@556	116 database dbname=test
adamc@556	117 sql crud1.sql
adamc@556	118
adamc@556	119 crud
adamc@556	120 crud1
adamc@556	121 \end{verbatim}
adamc@556	122
adamc@556	123 The \texttt{database} line gives the database information string to pass to libpq. In this case, the string only says to connect to a local database named \texttt{test}.
adamc@556	124
adamc@556	125 The \texttt{sql} line asks for an SQL source file to be generated, giving the commands to run to create the tables and sequences that this application expects to find. After building this \texttt{.urp} file, the following commands could be used to initialize the database, assuming that the current UNIX user exists as a Postgres user with database creation privileges:
adamc@556	126
adamc@556	127 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@556	128 createdb test
adamc@556	129 psql -f crud1.sql test
adamc@556	130 \end{verbatim}
adamc@556	131
adam@1331	132 A blank line separates the named directives from a list of modules to include in the project. Any line may contain a shell-script-style comment, where any suffix of a line starting at a hash character \texttt{\#} is ignored.
adamc@556	133
adamc@556	134 For each entry \texttt{M} in the module list, the file \texttt{M.urs} is included in the project if it exists, and the file \texttt{M.ur} must exist and is always included.
adamc@556	135
adamc@783	136 Here is the complete list of directive forms. ``FFI'' stands for ``foreign function interface,'' Ur's facility for interaction between Ur programs and C and JavaScript libraries.
adamc@783	137 \begin{itemize}
adam@1799	138 \item \texttt{[allow\|deny] [url\|mime\|requestHeader\|responseHeader\|env] PATTERN} registers a rule governing which URLs, MIME types, HTTP request headers, HTTP response headers, or environment variable names are allowed to appear explicitly in this application. The first such rule to match a name determines the verdict. If \texttt{PATTERN} ends in \texttt{*}, it is interpreted as a prefix rule. Otherwise, a string must match it exactly.
adam@1400	139 \item \texttt{alwaysInline PATH} requests that every call to the referenced function be inlined. Section \ref{structure} explains how functions are assigned path strings.
adam@1462	140 \item \texttt{benignEffectful Module.ident} registers an FFI function or transaction as having side effects. The optimizer avoids removing, moving, or duplicating calls to such functions. Every effectful FFI function must be registered, or the optimizer may make invalid transformations. This version of the \texttt{effectful} directive registers that this function only has side effects that remain local to a single page generation.
adamc@783	141 \item \texttt{clientOnly Module.ident} registers an FFI function or transaction that may only be run in client browsers.
adam@1881	142 \item \texttt{clientToServer Module.ident} adds FFI type \texttt{Module.ident} to the list of types that are OK to marshal from clients to servers. Values like XML trees and SQL queries are hard to marshal without introducing expensive validity checks, so it's easier to ensure that the server never trusts clients to send such values. The file \texttt{include/urweb/urweb\_cpp.h} shows examples of the C support functions that are required of any type that may be marshalled. These include \texttt{attrify}, \texttt{urlify}, and \texttt{unurlify} functions.
adam@1816	143 \item \texttt{coreInline TREESIZE} sets how many nodes the AST of a function definition may have before the optimizer stops trying hard to inline calls to that function. (This is one of two options for one of two intermediate languages within the compiler.)
adamc@783	144 \item \texttt{database DBSTRING} sets the string to pass to libpq to open a database connection.
adamc@783	145 \item \texttt{debug} saves some intermediate C files, which is mostly useful to help in debugging the compiler itself.
adam@1878	146 \item \texttt{effectful Module.ident} registers an FFI function or transaction as having side effects. The optimizer avoids removing, moving, or duplicating calls to such functions. This is the default behavior for \texttt{transaction}-based types.
adamc@783	147 \item \texttt{exe FILENAME} sets the filename to which to write the output executable. The default for file \texttt{P.urp} is \texttt{P.exe}.
adam@1881	148 \item \texttt{ffi FILENAME} reads the file \texttt{FILENAME.urs} to determine the interface to a new FFI module. The name of the module is calculated from \texttt{FILENAME} in the same way as for normal source files. See the files \texttt{include/urweb/urweb\_cpp.h} and \texttt{src/c/urweb.c} for examples of C headers and implementations for FFI modules. In general, every type or value \texttt{Module.ident} becomes \texttt{uw\_Module\_ident} in C.
adam@1956	149 \item \texttt{html5} activates work-in-progress support for generating HTML5 instead of XHTML. For now, this option only affects the first few tokens on any page, which are always the same.
adamc@1099	150 \item \texttt{include FILENAME} adds \texttt{FILENAME} to the list of files to be \texttt{\#include}d in C sources. This is most useful for interfacing with new FFI modules.
adamc@783	151 \item \texttt{jsFunc Module.ident=name} gives the JavaScript name of an FFI value.
adamc@1089	152 \item \texttt{library FILENAME} parses \texttt{FILENAME.urp} and merges its contents with the rest of the current file's contents. If \texttt{FILENAME.urp} doesn't exist, the compiler also tries \texttt{FILENAME/lib.urp}.
adam@1309	153 \item \texttt{limit class num} sets a resource usage limit for generated applications. The limit \texttt{class} will be set to the non-negative integer \texttt{num}. The classes are:
adam@1309	154 \begin{itemize}
adam@1309	155 \item \texttt{cleanup}: maximum number of cleanup operations (e.g., entries recording the need to deallocate certain temporary objects) that may be active at once per request
adam@1850	156 \item \texttt{clients}: maximum number of simultaneous connections to one application by web clients waiting for new asynchronous messages sent with \texttt{Basis.send}
adam@1850	157 \item \texttt{database}: maximum size of a database file (currently only used by SQLite, which interprets the parameter as a number of pages, where page size is itself a quantity configurable in SQLite)
adam@1309	158 \item \texttt{deltas}: maximum number of messages sendable in a single request handler with \texttt{Basis.send}
adam@1309	159 \item \texttt{globals}: maximum number of global variables that FFI libraries may set in a single request context
adam@1309	160 \item \texttt{headers}: maximum size (in bytes) of per-request buffer used to hold HTTP headers for generated pages
adam@1797	161 \item \texttt{heap}: maximum size (in bytes) of per-request heap for dynamically allocated data
adam@1309	162 \item \texttt{inputs}: maximum number of top-level form fields per request
adam@1309	163 \item \texttt{messages}: maximum size (in bytes) of per-request buffer used to hold a single outgoing message sent with \texttt{Basis.send}
adam@1309	164 \item \texttt{page}: maximum size (in bytes) of per-request buffer used to hold HTML content of generated pages
adam@1309	165 \item \texttt{script}: maximum size (in bytes) of per-request buffer used to hold JavaScript content of generated pages
adam@1309	166 \item \texttt{subinputs}: maximum number of form fields per request, excluding top-level fields
adam@1309	167 \item \texttt{time}: maximum running time of a single page request, in units of approximately 0.1 seconds
adam@1309	168 \item \texttt{transactionals}: maximum number of custom transactional actions (e.g., sending an e-mail) that may be run in a single page generation
adam@1309	169 \end{itemize}
adam@1523	170 \item \texttt{link FILENAME} adds \texttt{FILENAME} to the list of files to be passed to the linker at the end of compilation. This is most useful for importing extra libraries needed by new FFI modules.
adam@1725	171 \item \texttt{linker CMD} sets \texttt{CMD} as the command line prefix to use for linking C object files. The command line will be completed with a space-separated list of \texttt{.o} and \texttt{.a} files, \texttt{-L} and \texttt{-l} flags, and finally with a \texttt{-o} flag to set the location where the executable should be written.
adam@1332	172 \item \texttt{minHeap NUMBYTES} sets the initial size for thread-local heaps used in handling requests. These heaps grow automatically as needed (up to any maximum set with \texttt{limit}), but each regrow requires restarting the request handling process.
adam@1816	173 \item \texttt{monoInline TREESIZE} sets how many nodes the AST of a function definition may have before the optimizer stops trying hard to inline calls to that function. (This is one of two options for one of two intermediate languages within the compiler.)
adam@1966	174 \item \texttt{neverInline PATH} requests that no call to the referenced function be inlined. Section \ref{structure} explains how functions are assigned path strings.
adam@1953	175 \item \texttt{noMangleSql} avoids adding a \texttt{uw\_} prefix in front of each identifier in SQL. With this experimental feature, the burden is on the programmer to avoid naming tables or columns after SQL keywords!
adam@1478	176 \item \texttt{noXsrfProtection URIPREFIX} turns off automatic cross-site request forgery protection for the page handler identified by the given URI prefix. This will avoid checking cryptographic signatures on cookies, which is generally a reasonable idea for some pages, such as login pages that are going to discard all old cookie values, anyway.
adam@1297	177 \item \texttt{onError Module.var} changes the handling of fatal application errors. Instead of displaying a default, ugly error 500 page, the error page will be generated by calling function \texttt{Module.var} on a piece of XML representing the error message. The error handler should have type $\mt{xbody} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{page}$. Note that the error handler \emph{cannot} be in the application's main module, since that would register it as explicitly callable via URLs.
adamc@852	178 \item \texttt{path NAME=VALUE} creates a mapping from \texttt{NAME} to \texttt{VALUE}. This mapping may be used at the beginnings of filesystem paths given to various other configuration directives. A path like \texttt{\$NAME/rest} is expanded to \texttt{VALUE/rest}. There is an initial mapping from the empty name (for paths like \texttt{\$/list}) to the directory where the Ur/Web standard library is installed. If you accept the default \texttt{configure} options, this directory is \texttt{/usr/local/lib/urweb/ur}.
adamc@783	179 \item \texttt{prefix PREFIX} sets the prefix included before every URI within the generated application. The default is \texttt{/}.
adamc@783	180 \item \texttt{profile} generates an executable that may be used with gprof.
adam@1752	181 \item \texttt{rewrite KIND FROM TO} gives a rule for rewriting canonical module paths. For instance, the canonical path of a page may be \texttt{Mod1.Mod2.mypage}, while you would rather the page were accessed via a URL containing only \texttt{page}. The directive \texttt{rewrite url Mod1/Mod2/mypage page} would accomplish that. The possible values of \texttt{KIND} determine which kinds of objects are affected. The kind \texttt{all} matches any object, and \texttt{url} matches page URLs. The kinds \texttt{table}, \texttt{sequence}, and \texttt{view} match those sorts of SQL entities, and \texttt{relation} matches any of those three. \texttt{cookie} matches HTTP cookies, and \texttt{style} matches CSS class names. If \texttt{FROM} ends in \texttt{/}, it is interpreted as a prefix matching rule, and rewriting occurs by replacing only the appropriate prefix of a path with \texttt{TO}. The \texttt{TO} field may be left empty to express the idea of deleting a prefix. For instance, \texttt{rewrite url Main/} will strip all \texttt{Main/} prefixes from URLs. While the actual external names of relations and styles have parts separated by underscores instead of slashes, all rewrite rules must be written in terms of slashes. An optional suffix of \cd{[-]} for a \cd{rewrite} directive asks to additionally replace all \cd{\_} characters with \cd{-} characters, which can be handy for, e.g., interfacing with an off-the-shelf CSS library that prefers hyphens over underscores.
adamc@1183	182 \item \texttt{safeGet URI} asks to allow the page handler assigned this canonical URI prefix to cause persistent side effects, even if accessed via an HTTP \cd{GET} request.
adamc@783	183 \item \texttt{script URL} adds \texttt{URL} to the list of extra JavaScript files to be included at the beginning of any page that uses JavaScript. This is most useful for importing JavaScript versions of functions found in new FFI modules.
adamc@783	184 \item \texttt{serverOnly Module.ident} registers an FFI function or transaction that may only be run on the server.
adamc@1164	185 \item \texttt{sigfile PATH} sets a path where your application should look for a key to use in cryptographic signing. This is used to prevent cross-site request forgery attacks for any form handler that both reads a cookie and creates side effects. If the referenced file doesn't exist, an application will create it and read its saved data on future invocations. You can also initialize the file manually with any contents at least 16 bytes long; the first 16 bytes will be treated as the key.
adamc@783	186 \item \texttt{sql FILENAME} sets where to write an SQL file with the commands to create the expected database schema. The default is not to create such a file.
adam@1629	187 \item \texttt{timeFormat FMT} accepts a time format string, as processed by the POSIX C function \texttt{strftime()}. This controls the default rendering of $\mt{time}$ values, via the $\mt{show}$ instance for $\mt{time}$.
adamc@783	188 \item \texttt{timeout N} sets to \texttt{N} seconds the amount of time that the generated server will wait after the last contact from a client before determining that that client has exited the application. Clients that remain active will take the timeout setting into account in determining how often to ping the server, so it only makes sense to set a high timeout to cope with browser and network delays and failures. Higher timeouts can lead to more unnecessary client information taking up memory on the server. The timeout goes unused by any page that doesn't involve the \texttt{recv} function, since the server only needs to store per-client information for clients that receive asynchronous messages.
adamc@783	189 \end{itemize}
adamc@701	190
adamc@701	191
adamc@557	192 \subsection{Building an Application}
adamc@557	193
adamc@557	194 To compile project \texttt{P.urp}, simply run
adamc@557	195 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@557	196 urweb P
adamc@557	197 \end{verbatim}
adamc@1198	198 The output executable is a standalone web server. Run it with the command-line argument \texttt{-h} to see which options it takes. If the project file lists a database, the web server will attempt to connect to that database on startup. See Section \ref{structure} for an explanation of the URI mapping convention, which determines how each page of your application may be accessed via URLs.
adamc@557	199
adamc@557	200 To time how long the different compiler phases run, without generating an executable, run
adamc@557	201 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@557	202 urweb -timing P
adamc@557	203 \end{verbatim}
adamc@557	204
adamc@1086	205 To stop the compilation process after type-checking, run
adamc@1086	206 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@1086	207 urweb -tc P
adamc@1086	208 \end{verbatim}
adam@1530	209 It is often worthwhile to run \cd{urweb} in this mode, because later phases of compilation can take significantly longer than type-checking alone, and the type checker catches many errors that would traditionally be found through debugging a running application.
adamc@1086	210
adam@1745	211 A related option is \cd{-dumpTypes}, which, as long as parsing succeeds, outputs to stdout a summary of the kinds of all identifiers declared with \cd{con} and the types of all identifiers declared with \cd{val} or \cd{val rec}. This information is dumped even if there are errors during type inference. Compiler error messages go to stderr, not stdout, so it is easy to distinguish the two kinds of output programmatically. A refined version of this option is \cd{-dumpTypesOnError}, which only has an effect when there are compilation errors.
adam@1531	212
adam@1723	213 It may be useful to combine another option \cd{-unifyMore} with \cd{-dumpTypes}. Ur/Web type inference proceeds in a series of stages, where the first is standard Hindley-Milner type inference as in ML, and the later phases add more complex aspects. By default, an error detected in one phase cuts off the execution of later phases. However, the later phases might still determine more values of unification variables. These value choices might be ``misguided,'' since earlier phases have not come up with reasonable types at a coarser detail level; but the unification decisions may still be useful for debugging and program understanding. So, if a run with \cd{-dumpTypes} leaves unification variables undetermined in positions where you would like to see best-effort guesses instead, consider \cd{-unifyMore}. Note that \cd{-unifyMore} has no effect when type inference succeeds fully, but it may lead to many more error messages when inference fails.
adam@1723	214
adamc@1170	215 To output information relevant to CSS stylesheets (and not finish regular compilation), run
adamc@1170	216 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@1170	217 urweb -css P
adamc@1170	218 \end{verbatim}
adamc@1170	219 The first output line is a list of categories of CSS properties that would be worth setting on the document body. The remaining lines are space-separated pairs of CSS class names and categories of properties that would be worth setting for that class. The category codes are divided into two varieties. Codes that reveal properties of a tag or its (recursive) children are \cd{B} for block-level elements, \cd{C} for table captions, \cd{D} for table cells, \cd{L} for lists, and \cd{T} for tables. Codes that reveal properties of the precise tag that uses a class are \cd{b} for block-level elements, \cd{t} for tables, \cd{d} for table cells, \cd{-} for table rows, \cd{H} for the possibility to set a height, \cd{N} for non-replaced inline-level elements, \cd{R} for replaced inline elements, and \cd{W} for the possibility to set a width.
adamc@1170	220
adam@1733	221 Ur/Web type inference can take a significant amount of time, so it can be helpful to cache type-inferred versions of source files. This mode can be activated by running
adam@1733	222 \begin{verbatim}
adam@1733	223 urweb daemon start
adam@1733	224 \end{verbatim}
adam@1733	225 Further \cd{urweb} invocations in the same working directory will send requests to a background daemon process that reuses type inference results whenever possible, tracking source file dependencies and modification times. To stop the background daemon, run
adam@1733	226 \begin{verbatim}
adam@1733	227 urweb daemon stop
adam@1733	228 \end{verbatim}
adam@1733	229 Communication happens via a UNIX domain socket in file \cd{.urweb\_daemon} in the working directory.
adam@1733	230
adam@1733	231 \medskip
adam@1733	232
adamc@896	233 Some other command-line parameters are accepted:
adamc@896	234 \begin{itemize}
ezyang@1739	235 \item \texttt{-boot}: Run Ur/Web from a build tree (and not from a system install). This is useful if you're testing the compiler and don't want to install it. It forces generation of statically linked executables.
ezyang@1739	236
adam@1875	237 \item \texttt{-ccompiler <PROGRAM>}: Select an alternative C compiler to call with command lines in compiling Ur/Web applications. (It's possible to set the default compiler as part of the \texttt{configure} process, but it may sometimes be useful to override the default.)
adam@1875	238
adamc@896	239 \item \texttt{-db <DBSTRING>}: Set database connection information, using the format expected by Postgres's \texttt{PQconnectdb()}, which is \texttt{name1=value1 ... nameN=valueN}. The same format is also parsed and used to discover connection parameters for MySQL and SQLite. The only significant settings for MySQL are \texttt{host}, \texttt{hostaddr}, \texttt{port}, \texttt{dbname}, \texttt{user}, and \texttt{password}. The only significant setting for SQLite is \texttt{dbname}, which is interpreted as the filesystem path to the database. Additionally, when using SQLite, a database string may be just a file path.
adamc@896	240
adamc@896	241 \item \texttt{-dbms [postgres\|mysql\|sqlite]}: Sets the database backend to use.
adamc@896	242 \begin{itemize}
adamc@896	243 \item \texttt{postgres}: This is PostgreSQL, the default. Among the supported engines, Postgres best matches the design philosophy behind Ur, with a focus on consistent views of data, even in the face of much concurrency. Different database engines have different quirks of SQL syntax. Ur/Web tends to use Postgres idioms where there are choices to be made, though the compiler translates SQL as needed to support other backends.
adamc@896	244
adamc@896	245 A command sequence like this can initialize a Postgres database, using a file \texttt{app.sql} generated by the compiler:
adamc@896	246 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@896	247 createdb app
adamc@896	248 psql -f app.sql app
adamc@896	249 \end{verbatim}
adamc@896	250
adamc@896	251 \item \texttt{mysql}: This is MySQL, another popular relational database engine that uses persistent server processes. Ur/Web needs transactions to function properly. Many installations of MySQL use non-transactional storage engines by default. Ur/Web generates table definitions that try to use MySQL's InnoDB engine, which supports transactions. You can edit the first line of a generated \texttt{.sql} file to change this behavior, but it really is true that Ur/Web applications will exhibit bizarre behavior if you choose an engine that ignores transaction commands.
adamc@896	252
adamc@896	253 A command sequence like this can initialize a MySQL database:
adamc@896	254 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@896	255 echo "CREATE DATABASE app" \| mysql
adamc@896	256 mysql -D app <app.sql
adamc@896	257 \end{verbatim}
adamc@896	258
adamc@896	259 \item \texttt{sqlite}: This is SQLite, a simple filesystem-based transactional database engine. With this backend, Ur/Web applications can run without any additional server processes. The other engines are generally preferred for large-workload performance and full admin feature sets, while SQLite is popular for its low resource footprint and ease of set-up.
adamc@896	260
adamc@896	261 A command like this can initialize an SQLite database:
adamc@896	262 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@896	263 sqlite3 path/to/database/file <app.sql
adamc@896	264 \end{verbatim}
adamc@896	265 \end{itemize}
adamc@896	266
adam@1693	267 \item \texttt{-dumpSource}: When compilation fails, output to stderr the complete source code of the last intermediate program before the compilation phase that signaled the error. (Warning: these outputs can be very long and aren't especially optimized for readability!)
adam@1693	268
adam@1309	269 \item \texttt{-limit class num}: Equivalent to the \texttt{limit} directive from \texttt{.urp} files
adam@1309	270
adam@1850	271 \item \texttt{-moduleOf FILENAME}: Prints the Ur/Web module name corresponding to source file \texttt{FILENAME}, exiting immediately afterward.
adam@1850	272
adamc@896	273 \item \texttt{-output FILENAME}: Set where the application executable is written.
adamc@896	274
adamc@1127	275 \item \texttt{-path NAME VALUE}: Set the value of path variable \texttt{\$NAME} to \texttt{VALUE}, for use in \texttt{.urp} files.
adamc@1127	276
adam@1335	277 \item \texttt{-prefix PREFIX}: Equivalent to the \texttt{prefix} directive from \texttt{.urp} files
adam@1335	278
adam@1875	279 \item \texttt{-print-ccompiler}: Print the C compiler being used.
adam@1875	280
adam@1923	281 \item \texttt{-print-cinclude}: Print the name of the directory where C/C++ header files are installed.
adam@1923	282
adam@1753	283 \item \texttt{-protocol [http\|cgi\|fastcgi\|static]}: Set the protocol that the generated application speaks.
adamc@896	284 \begin{itemize}
adamc@896	285 \item \texttt{http}: This is the default. It is for building standalone web servers that can be accessed by web browsers directly.
adamc@896	286
adamc@896	287 \item \texttt{cgi}: This is the classic protocol that web servers use to generate dynamic content by spawning new processes. While Ur/Web programs may in general use message-passing with the \texttt{send} and \texttt{recv} functions, that functionality is not yet supported in CGI, since CGI needs a fresh process for each request, and message-passing needs to use persistent sockets to deliver messages.
adamc@896	288
adamc@896	289 Since Ur/Web treats paths in an unusual way, a configuration line like this one can be used to configure an application that was built with URL prefix \texttt{/Hello}:
adamc@896	290 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@896	291 ScriptAlias /Hello /path/to/hello.exe
adamc@896	292 \end{verbatim}
adamc@896	293
adamc@1163	294 A different method can be used for, e.g., a shared host, where you can only configure Apache via \texttt{.htaccess} files. Drop the generated executable into your web space and mark it as CGI somehow. For instance, if the script ends in \texttt{.exe}, you might put this in \texttt{.htaccess} in the directory containing the script:
adamc@1163	295 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@1163	296 Options +ExecCGI
adamc@1163	297 AddHandler cgi-script .exe
adamc@1163	298 \end{verbatim}
adamc@1163	299
adamc@1163	300 Additionally, make sure that Ur/Web knows the proper URI prefix for your script. For instance, if the script is accessed via \texttt{http://somewhere/dir/script.exe}, then include this line in your \texttt{.urp} file:
adamc@1163	301 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@1163	302 prefix /dir/script.exe/
adamc@1163	303 \end{verbatim}
adamc@1163	304
adamc@1163	305 To access the \texttt{foo} function in the \texttt{Bar} module, you would then hit \texttt{http://somewhere/dir/script.exe/Bar/foo}.
adamc@1163	306
adamc@1164	307 If your application contains form handlers that read cookies before causing side effects, then you will need to use the \texttt{sigfile} \texttt{.urp} directive, too.
adamc@1164	308
adamc@896	309 \item \texttt{fastcgi}: This is a newer protocol inspired by CGI, wherein web servers can start and reuse persistent external processes to generate dynamic content. Ur/Web doesn't implement the whole protocol, but Ur/Web's support has been tested to work with the \texttt{mod\_fastcgi}s of Apache and lighttpd.
adamc@896	310
adamc@896	311 To configure a FastCGI program with Apache, one could combine the above \texttt{ScriptAlias} line with a line like this:
adamc@896	312 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@896	313 FastCgiServer /path/to/hello.exe -idle-timeout 99999
adamc@896	314 \end{verbatim}
adamc@896	315 The idle timeout is only important for applications that use message-passing. Client connections may go long periods without receiving messages, and Apache tries to be helpful and garbage collect them in such cases. To prevent that behavior, we specify how long a connection must be idle to be collected.
adamc@896	316
adam@1753	317 Also see the discussion of the \cd{prefix} directive for CGI above; similar configuration is likely to be necessary for FastCGI. An Ur/Web application won't generally run correctly if it doesn't have a unique URI prefix assigned to it and configured with \cd{prefix}.
adam@1753	318
adamc@896	319 Here is some lighttpd configuration for the same application.
adamc@896	320 \begin{verbatim}
adamc@896	321 fastcgi.server = (
adamc@896	322 "/Hello/" =>
adamc@896	323 (( "bin-path" => "/path/to/hello.exe",
adamc@896	324 "socket" => "/tmp/hello",
adamc@896	325 "check-local" => "disable",
adamc@896	326 "docroot" => "/",
adamc@896	327 "max-procs" => "1"
adamc@896	328 ))
adamc@896	329 )
adamc@896	330 \end{verbatim}
adamc@896	331 The least obvious requirement is setting \texttt{max-procs} to 1, so that lighttpd doesn't try to multiplex requests across multiple external processes. This is required for message-passing applications, where a single database of client connections is maintained within a multi-threaded server process. Multiple processes may, however, be used safely with applications that don't use message-passing.
adamc@896	332
adamc@896	333 A FastCGI process reads the environment variable \texttt{URWEB\_NUM\_THREADS} to determine how many threads to spawn for handling client requests. The default is 1.
adam@1509	334
adam@1509	335 \item \texttt{static}: This protocol may be used to generate static web pages from Ur/Web code. The output executable expects a single command-line argument, giving the URI of a page to generate. For instance, this argument might be \cd{/main}, in which case a static HTTP response for that page will be written to stdout.
adamc@896	336 \end{itemize}
adamc@896	337
adamc@1127	338 \item \texttt{-root Name PATH}: Trigger an alternate module convention for all source files found in directory \texttt{PATH} or any of its subdirectories. Any file \texttt{PATH/foo.ur} defines a module \texttt{Name.Foo} instead of the usual \texttt{Foo}. Any file \texttt{PATH/subdir/foo.ur} defines a module \texttt{Name.Subdir.Foo}, and so on for arbitrary nesting of subdirectories.
adamc@1127	339
adamc@1164	340 \item \texttt{-sigfile PATH}: Same as the \texttt{sigfile} directive in \texttt{.urp} files
adamc@1164	341
adamc@896	342 \item \texttt{-sql FILENAME}: Set where a database set-up SQL script is written.
adamc@1095	343
adamc@1095	344 \item \texttt{-static}: Link the runtime system statically. The default is to link against dynamic libraries.
adam@1961	345
adam@1961	346 \item \texttt{-stop PHASE}: Stop compilation after the named phase, printing the intermediate program to stderr. This flag is mainly useful for debugging the Ur/Web compiler itself.
adamc@896	347 \end{itemize}
adamc@896	348
adam@1297	349 There is an additional convenience method for invoking \texttt{urweb}. If the main argument is \texttt{FOO}, and \texttt{FOO.ur} exists but \texttt{FOO.urp} doesn't, then the invocation is interpreted as if called on a \texttt{.urp} file containing \texttt{FOO} as its only main entry, with an additional \texttt{rewrite all FOO/*} directive.
adamc@556	350
adam@1509	351 \subsection{Tutorial Formatting}
adam@1509	352
adam@1509	353 The Ur/Web compiler also supports rendering of nice HTML tutorials from Ur source files, when invoked like \cd{urweb -tutorial DIR}. The directory \cd{DIR} is examined for files whose names end in \cd{.ur}. Every such file is translated into a \cd{.html} version.
adam@1509	354
adam@1509	355 These input files follow normal Ur syntax, with a few exceptions:
adam@1509	356 \begin{itemize}
adam@1509	357 \item The first line must be a comment like \cd{(* TITLE *)}, where \cd{TITLE} is a string of your choice that will be used as the title of the output page.
adam@1509	358 \item While most code in the output HTML will be formatted as a monospaced code listing, text in regular Ur comments is formatted as normal English text.
adam@1509	359 \item A comment like \cd{(* * HEADING *)} introduces a section heading, with text \cd{HEADING} of your choice.
adam@1509	360 \item To include both a rendering of an Ur expression and a pretty-printed version of its value, bracket the expression with \cd{(* begin eval )} and \cd{( end *)}. The result of expression evaluation is pretty-printed with \cd{show}, so the expression type must belong to that type class.
adam@1509	361 \item To include code that should not be shown in the tutorial (e.g., to add a \cd{show} instance to use with \cd{eval}), bracket the code with \cd{(* begin hide )} and \cd{( end *)}.
adam@1509	362 \end{itemize}
adam@1509	363
adam@1509	364 A word of warning: as for demo generation, tutorial generation calls Emacs to syntax-highlight Ur code.
adam@1509	365
adam@1522	366 \subsection{Run-Time Options}
adam@1522	367
adam@1522	368 Compiled applications consult a few environment variables to modify their behavior:
adam@1522	369
adam@1522	370 \begin{itemize}
adam@1522	371 \item \cd{URWEB\_NUM\_THREADS}: alternative to the \cd{-t} command-line argument (currently used only by FastCGI)
adam@1522	372 \item \cd{URWEB\_STACK\_SIZE}: size of per-thread stacks, in bytes
as@1564	373 \item \cd{URWEB\_PQ\_CON}: when using PostgreSQL, overrides the compiled-in connection string
adam@1522	374 \end{itemize}
adam@1522	375
adam@1509	376
adamc@529	377 \section{Ur Syntax}
adamc@529	378
adamc@784	379 In this section, we describe the syntax of Ur, deferring to a later section discussion of most of the syntax specific to SQL and XML. The sole exceptions are the declaration forms for relations, cookies, and styles.
adamc@524	380
adamc@524	381 \subsection{Lexical Conventions}
adamc@524	382
adamc@524	383 We give the Ur language definition in \LaTeX $\;$ math mode, since that is prettier than monospaced ASCII. The corresponding ASCII syntax can be read off directly. Here is the key for mapping math symbols to ASCII character sequences.
adamc@524	384
adamc@524	385 \begin{center}
adamc@524	386 \begin{tabular}{rl}
adamc@524	387 \textbf{\LaTeX} & \textbf{ASCII} \\
adamc@524	388 $\to$ & \cd{->} \\
adam@1687	389 $\longrightarrow$ & \cd{-{}->} \\
adamc@524	390 $\times$ & \cd{*} \\
adamc@524	391 $\lambda$ & \cd{fn} \\
adamc@524	392 $\Rightarrow$ & \cd{=>} \\
adamc@652	393 $\Longrightarrow$ & \cd{==>} \\
adamc@529	394 $\neq$ & \cd{<>} \\
adamc@529	395 $\leq$ & \cd{<=} \\
adamc@529	396 $\geq$ & \cd{>=} \\
adamc@524	397 \\
adamc@524	398 $x$ & Normal textual identifier, not beginning with an uppercase letter \\
adamc@525	399 $X$ & Normal textual identifier, beginning with an uppercase letter \\
adamc@524	400 \end{tabular}
adamc@524	401 \end{center}
adamc@524	402
adamc@525	403 We often write syntax like $e^$ to indicate zero or more copies of $e$, $e^+$ to indicate one or more copies, and $e,^$ and $e,^+$ to indicate multiple copies separated by commas. Another separator may be used in place of a comma. The $e$ term may be surrounded by parentheses to indicate grouping; those parentheses should not be included in the actual ASCII.
adamc@524	404
adamc@873	405 We write $\ell$ for literals of the primitive types, for the most part following C conventions. There are $\mt{int}$, $\mt{float}$, $\mt{char}$, and $\mt{string}$ literals. Character literals follow the SML convention instead of the C convention, written like \texttt{\#"a"} instead of \texttt{'a'}.
adamc@526	406
adamc@527	407 This version of the manual doesn't include operator precedences; see \texttt{src/urweb.grm} for that.
adamc@527	408
adam@1297	409 As in the ML language family, the syntax \texttt{(* ... *)} is used for (nestable) comments. Within XML literals, Ur/Web also supports the usual \texttt{<!-- ... -->} XML comments.
adam@1297	410
adamc@552	411 \subsection{\label{core}Core Syntax}
adamc@524	412
adamc@524	413 \emph{Kinds} classify types and other compile-time-only entities. Each kind in the grammar is listed with a description of the sort of data it classifies.
adamc@524	414 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@524	415 \textrm{Kinds} & \kappa &::=& \mt{Type} & \textrm{proper types} \\
adamc@525	416 &&& \mt{Unit} & \textrm{the trivial constructor} \\
adamc@525	417 &&& \mt{Name} & \textrm{field names} \\
adamc@525	418 &&& \kappa \to \kappa & \textrm{type-level functions} \\
adamc@525	419 &&& \{\kappa\} & \textrm{type-level records} \\
adamc@525	420 &&& (\kappa\times^+) & \textrm{type-level tuples} \\
adamc@652	421 &&& X & \textrm{variable} \\
adam@1574	422 &&& X \longrightarrow \kappa & \textrm{kind-polymorphic type-level function} \\
adamc@529	423 &&& \_\_ & \textrm{wildcard} \\
adamc@525	424 &&& (\kappa) & \textrm{explicit precedence} \\
adamc@524	425 \end{array}$$
adamc@524	426
adamc@524	427 Ur supports several different notions of functions that take types as arguments. These arguments can be either implicit, causing them to be inferred at use sites; or explicit, forcing them to be specified manually at use sites. There is a common explicitness annotation convention applied at the definitions of and in the types of such functions.
adamc@524	428 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@524	429 \textrm{Explicitness} & ? &::=& :: & \textrm{explicit} \\
adamc@558	430 &&& ::: & \textrm{implicit}
adamc@524	431 \end{array}$$
adamc@524	432
adamc@524	433 \emph{Constructors} are the main class of compile-time-only data. They include proper types and are classified by kinds.
adamc@524	434 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@524	435 \textrm{Constructors} & c, \tau &::=& (c) :: \kappa & \textrm{kind annotation} \\
adamc@530	436 &&& \hat{x} & \textrm{constructor variable} \\
adamc@524	437 \\
adamc@525	438 &&& \tau \to \tau & \textrm{function type} \\
adamc@525	439 &&& x \; ? \; \kappa \to \tau & \textrm{polymorphic function type} \\
adamc@652	440 &&& X \longrightarrow \tau & \textrm{kind-polymorphic function type} \\
adamc@525	441 &&& \$ c & \textrm{record type} \\
adamc@524	442 \\
adamc@525	443 &&& c \; c & \textrm{type-level function application} \\
adamc@530	444 &&& \lambda x \; :: \; \kappa \Rightarrow c & \textrm{type-level function abstraction} \\
adamc@524	445 \\
adamc@652	446 &&& X \Longrightarrow c & \textrm{type-level kind-polymorphic function abstraction} \\
adamc@655	447 &&& c [\kappa] & \textrm{type-level kind-polymorphic function application} \\
adamc@652	448 \\
adamc@525	449 &&& () & \textrm{type-level unit} \\
adamc@525	450 &&& \#X & \textrm{field name} \\
adamc@524	451 \\
adamc@525	452 &&& [(c = c)^*] & \textrm{known-length type-level record} \\
adamc@525	453 &&& c \rc c & \textrm{type-level record concatenation} \\
adamc@652	454 &&& \mt{map} & \textrm{type-level record map} \\
adamc@524	455 \\
adamc@558	456 &&& (c,^+) & \textrm{type-level tuple} \\
adamc@525	457 &&& c.n & \textrm{type-level tuple projection ($n \in \mathbb N^+$)} \\
adamc@524	458 \\
adamc@652	459 &&& [c \sim c] \Rightarrow \tau & \textrm{guarded type} \\
adamc@524	460 \\
adamc@529	461 &&& \_ :: \kappa & \textrm{wildcard} \\
adamc@525	462 &&& (c) & \textrm{explicit precedence} \\
adamc@530	463 \\
adamc@530	464 \textrm{Qualified uncapitalized variables} & \hat{x} &::=& x & \textrm{not from a module} \\
adamc@530	465 &&& M.x & \textrm{projection from a module} \\
adamc@525	466 \end{array}$$
adamc@525	467
adam@1579	468 We include both abstraction and application for kind polymorphism, but applications are only inferred internally; they may not be written explicitly in source programs. Also, in the ``known-length type-level record'' form, in $c_1 = c_2$ terms, the parser currently only allows $c_1$ to be of the forms $X$ (as a shorthand for $\#X$) or $x$, or a natural number to stand for the corresponding field name (e.g., for tuples).
adamc@655	469
adamc@525	470 Modules of the module system are described by \emph{signatures}.
adamc@525	471 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@525	472 \textrm{Signatures} & S &::=& \mt{sig} \; s^* \; \mt{end} & \textrm{constant} \\
adamc@525	473 &&& X & \textrm{variable} \\
adamc@525	474 &&& \mt{functor}(X : S) : S & \textrm{functor} \\
adamc@529	475 &&& S \; \mt{where} \; \mt{con} \; x = c & \textrm{concretizing an abstract constructor} \\
adamc@525	476 &&& M.X & \textrm{projection from a module} \\
adamc@525	477 \\
adamc@525	478 \textrm{Signature items} & s &::=& \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa & \textrm{abstract constructor} \\
adamc@525	479 &&& \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c & \textrm{concrete constructor} \\
adamc@528	480 &&& \mt{datatype} \; x \; x^* = dc\mid^+ & \textrm{algebraic datatype definition} \\
adamc@529	481 &&& \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.x & \textrm{algebraic datatype import} \\
adamc@525	482 &&& \mt{val} \; x : \tau & \textrm{value} \\
adamc@525	483 &&& \mt{structure} \; X : S & \textrm{sub-module} \\
adamc@525	484 &&& \mt{signature} \; X = S & \textrm{sub-signature} \\
adamc@525	485 &&& \mt{include} \; S & \textrm{signature inclusion} \\
adamc@525	486 &&& \mt{constraint} \; c \sim c & \textrm{record disjointness constraint} \\
adamc@654	487 &&& \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa & \textrm{abstract constructor class} \\
adamc@654	488 &&& \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c & \textrm{concrete constructor class} \\
adamc@525	489 \\
adamc@525	490 \textrm{Datatype constructors} & dc &::=& X & \textrm{nullary constructor} \\
adamc@525	491 &&& X \; \mt{of} \; \tau & \textrm{unary constructor} \\
adamc@524	492 \end{array}$$
adamc@524	493
adamc@526	494 \emph{Patterns} are used to describe structural conditions on expressions, such that expressions may be tested against patterns, generating assignments to pattern variables if successful.
adamc@526	495 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@526	496 \textrm{Patterns} & p &::=& \_ & \textrm{wildcard} \\
adamc@526	497 &&& x & \textrm{variable} \\
adamc@526	498 &&& \ell & \textrm{constant} \\
adamc@526	499 &&& \hat{X} & \textrm{nullary constructor} \\
adamc@526	500 &&& \hat{X} \; p & \textrm{unary constructor} \\
adamc@526	501 &&& \{(x = p,)^*\} & \textrm{rigid record pattern} \\
adamc@526	502 &&& \{(x = p,)^+, \ldots\} & \textrm{flexible record pattern} \\
adamc@852	503 &&& p : \tau & \textrm{type annotation} \\
adamc@527	504 &&& (p) & \textrm{explicit precedence} \\
adamc@526	505 \\
adamc@529	506 \textrm{Qualified capitalized variables} & \hat{X} &::=& X & \textrm{not from a module} \\
adamc@526	507 &&& M.X & \textrm{projection from a module} \\
adamc@526	508 \end{array}$$
adamc@526	509
adamc@527	510 \emph{Expressions} are the main run-time entities, corresponding to both ``expressions'' and ``statements'' in mainstream imperative languages.
adamc@527	511 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@527	512 \textrm{Expressions} & e &::=& e : \tau & \textrm{type annotation} \\
adamc@529	513 &&& \hat{x} & \textrm{variable} \\
adamc@529	514 &&& \hat{X} & \textrm{datatype constructor} \\
adamc@527	515 &&& \ell & \textrm{constant} \\
adamc@527	516 \\
adamc@527	517 &&& e \; e & \textrm{function application} \\
adamc@527	518 &&& \lambda x : \tau \Rightarrow e & \textrm{function abstraction} \\
adamc@527	519 &&& e [c] & \textrm{polymorphic function application} \\
adamc@852	520 &&& \lambda [x \; ? \; \kappa] \Rightarrow e & \textrm{polymorphic function abstraction} \\
adamc@655	521 &&& e [\kappa] & \textrm{kind-polymorphic function application} \\
adamc@652	522 &&& X \Longrightarrow e & \textrm{kind-polymorphic function abstraction} \\
adamc@527	523 \\
adamc@527	524 &&& \{(c = e,)^*\} & \textrm{known-length record} \\
adamc@527	525 &&& e.c & \textrm{record field projection} \\
adamc@527	526 &&& e \rc e & \textrm{record concatenation} \\
adamc@527	527 &&& e \rcut c & \textrm{removal of a single record field} \\
adamc@527	528 &&& e \rcutM c & \textrm{removal of multiple record fields} \\
adamc@527	529 \\
adamc@527	530 &&& \mt{let} \; ed^* \; \mt{in} \; e \; \mt{end} & \textrm{local definitions} \\
adamc@527	531 \\
adamc@527	532 &&& \mt{case} \; e \; \mt{of} \; (p \Rightarrow e\|)^+ & \textrm{pattern matching} \\
adamc@527	533 \\
adamc@654	534 &&& \lambda [c \sim c] \Rightarrow e & \textrm{guarded expression abstraction} \\
adamc@654	535 &&& e \; ! & \textrm{guarded expression application} \\
adamc@527	536 \\
adamc@527	537 &&& \_ & \textrm{wildcard} \\
adamc@527	538 &&& (e) & \textrm{explicit precedence} \\
adamc@527	539 \\
adamc@527	540 \textrm{Local declarations} & ed &::=& \cd{val} \; x : \tau = e & \textrm{non-recursive value} \\
adam@1797	541 &&& \cd{val} \; \cd{rec} \; (x : \tau = e \; \cd{and})^+ & \textrm{mutually recursive values} \\
adamc@527	542 \end{array}$$
adamc@527	543
adamc@655	544 As with constructors, we include both abstraction and application for kind polymorphism, but applications are only inferred internally.
adamc@655	545
adamc@528	546 \emph{Declarations} primarily bring new symbols into context.
adamc@528	547 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@528	548 \textrm{Declarations} & d &::=& \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c & \textrm{constructor synonym} \\
adamc@528	549 &&& \mt{datatype} \; x \; x^* = dc\mid^+ & \textrm{algebraic datatype definition} \\
adamc@529	550 &&& \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.x & \textrm{algebraic datatype import} \\
adamc@528	551 &&& \mt{val} \; x : \tau = e & \textrm{value} \\
adam@1797	552 &&& \mt{val} \; \cd{rec} \; (x : \tau = e \; \mt{and})^+ & \textrm{mutually recursive values} \\
adamc@528	553 &&& \mt{structure} \; X : S = M & \textrm{module definition} \\
adamc@528	554 &&& \mt{signature} \; X = S & \textrm{signature definition} \\
adamc@528	555 &&& \mt{open} \; M & \textrm{module inclusion} \\
adamc@528	556 &&& \mt{constraint} \; c \sim c & \textrm{record disjointness constraint} \\
adamc@528	557 &&& \mt{open} \; \mt{constraints} \; M & \textrm{inclusion of just the constraints from a module} \\
adamc@528	558 &&& \mt{table} \; x : c & \textrm{SQL table} \\
adam@1594	559 &&& \mt{view} \; x = e & \textrm{SQL view} \\
adamc@528	560 &&& \mt{sequence} \; x & \textrm{SQL sequence} \\
adamc@535	561 &&& \mt{cookie} \; x : \tau & \textrm{HTTP cookie} \\
adamc@784	562 &&& \mt{style} \; x : \tau & \textrm{CSS class} \\
adamc@1085	563 &&& \mt{task} \; e = e & \textrm{recurring task} \\
adamc@528	564 \\
adamc@529	565 \textrm{Modules} & M &::=& \mt{struct} \; d^* \; \mt{end} & \textrm{constant} \\
adamc@529	566 &&& X & \textrm{variable} \\
adamc@529	567 &&& M.X & \textrm{projection} \\
adamc@529	568 &&& M(M) & \textrm{functor application} \\
adamc@529	569 &&& \mt{functor}(X : S) : S = M & \textrm{functor abstraction} \\
adamc@528	570 \end{array}$$
adamc@528	571
adamc@528	572 There are two kinds of Ur files. A file named $M\texttt{.ur}$ is an \emph{implementation file}, and it should contain a sequence of declarations $d^$. A file named $M\texttt{.urs}$ is an \emph{interface file}; it must always have a matching $M\texttt{.ur}$ and should contain a sequence of signature items $s^$. When both files are present, the overall effect is the same as a monolithic declaration $\mt{structure} \; M : \mt{sig} \; s^* \; \mt{end} = \mt{struct} \; d^* \; \mt{end}$. When no interface file is included, the overall effect is similar, with a signature for module $M$ being inferred rather than just checked against an interface.
adamc@527	573
adam@1594	574 We omit some extra possibilities in $\mt{table}$ syntax, deferring them to Section \ref{tables}. The concrete syntax of $\mt{view}$ declarations is also more complex than shown in the table above, with details deferred to Section \ref{tables}.
adamc@784	575
adamc@529	576 \subsection{Shorthands}
adamc@529	577
adamc@529	578 There are a variety of derived syntactic forms that elaborate into the core syntax from the last subsection. We will present the additional forms roughly following the order in which we presented the constructs that they elaborate into.
adamc@529	579
adamc@529	580 In many contexts where record fields are expected, like in a projection $e.c$, a constant field may be written as simply $X$, rather than $\#X$.
adamc@529	581
adamc@529	582 A record type may be written $\{(c = c,)^\}$, which elaborates to $\$[(c = c,)^]$.
adamc@529	583
adamc@533	584 The notation $[c_1, \ldots, c_n]$ is shorthand for $[c_1 = (), \ldots, c_n = ()]$.
adamc@533	585
adam@1350	586 A tuple type $\tau_1 \times \ldots \times \tau_n$ expands to a record type $\{1 : \tau_1, \ldots, n : \tau_n\}$, with natural numbers as field names. A tuple expression $(e_1, \ldots, e_n)$ expands to a record expression $\{1 = e_1, \ldots, n = e_n\}$. A tuple pattern $(p_1, \ldots, p_n)$ expands to a rigid record pattern $\{1 = p_1, \ldots, n = p_n\}$. Positive natural numbers may be used in most places where field names would be allowed.
adamc@529	587
adam@1687	588 The syntax $()$ expands to $\{\}$ as a pattern or expression.
adam@1687	589
adamc@852	590 In general, several adjacent $\lambda$ forms may be combined into one, and kind and type annotations may be omitted, in which case they are implicitly included as wildcards. More formally, for constructor-level abstractions, we can define a new non-terminal $b ::= x \mid (x :: \kappa) \mid X$ and allow composite abstractions of the form $\lambda b^+ \Rightarrow c$, elaborating into the obvious sequence of one core $\lambda$ per element of $b^+$.
adamc@529	591
adam@1574	592 Further, the signature item or declaration syntax $\mt{con} \; x \; b^+ = c$ is shorthand for wrapping of the appropriate $\lambda$s around the righthand side $c$. The $b$ elements may not include $X$, and there may also be an optional $:: \kappa$ before the $=$.
adam@1574	593
adam@1306	594 In some contexts, the parser isn't happy with token sequences like $x :: \_$, to indicate a constructor variable of wildcard kind. In such cases, write the second two tokens as $::\hspace{-.05in}\_$, with no intervening spaces. Analogous syntax $:::\hspace{-.05in}\_$ is available for implicit constructor arguments.
adam@1302	595
adamc@529	596 For any signature item or declaration that defines some entity to be equal to $A$ with classification annotation $B$ (e.g., $\mt{val} \; x : B = A$), $B$ and the preceding colon (or similar punctuation) may be omitted, in which case it is filled in as a wildcard.
adamc@529	597
adamc@529	598 A signature item or declaration $\mt{type} \; x$ or $\mt{type} \; x = \tau$ is elaborated into $\mt{con} \; x :: \mt{Type}$ or $\mt{con} \; x :: \mt{Type} = \tau$, respectively.
adamc@529	599
adamc@654	600 A signature item or declaration $\mt{class} \; x = \lambda y \Rightarrow c$ may be abbreviated $\mt{class} \; x \; y = c$.
adamc@529	601
adam@1738	602 Handling of implicit and explicit constructor arguments may be tweaked with some prefixes to variable references. An expression $@x$ is a version of $x$ where all type class instance and disjointness arguments have been made explicit. (For the purposes of this paragraph, the type family $\mt{Top.folder}$ is a type class, though it isn't marked as one by the usual means; and any record type is considered to be a type class instance type when every field's type is a type class instance type.) An expression $@@x$ achieves the same effect, additionally making explicit all implicit constructor arguments. The default is that implicit arguments are inserted automatically after any reference to a variable, or after any application of a variable to one or more arguments. For such an expression, implicit wildcard arguments are added for the longest prefix of the expression's type consisting only of implicit polymorphism, type class instances, and disjointness obligations. The same syntax works for variables projected out of modules and for capitalized variables (datatype constructors).
adamc@529	603
adamc@852	604 At the expression level, an analogue is available of the composite $\lambda$ form for constructors. We define the language of binders as $b ::= p \mid [x] \mid [x \; ? \; \kappa] \mid X \mid [c \sim c]$. A lone variable $[x]$ stands for an implicit constructor variable of unspecified kind. The standard value-level function binder is recovered as the type-annotated pattern form $x : \tau$. It is a compile-time error to include a pattern $p$ that does not match every value of the appropriate type.
adamc@529	605
adamc@852	606 A local $\mt{val}$ declaration may bind a pattern instead of just a plain variable. As for function arguments, only irrefutable patterns are legal.
adamc@852	607
adam@1797	608 The keyword $\mt{fun}$ is a shorthand for $\mt{val} \; \mt{rec}$ that allows arguments to be specified before the equal sign in the definition of each mutually recursive function, as in SML. Each curried argument must follow the grammar of the $b$ non-terminal introduced two paragraphs ago. A $\mt{fun}$ declaration is elaborated into a version that adds additional $\lambda$s to the fronts of the righthand sides, as appropriate.
adamc@529	609
adamc@529	610 A signature item $\mt{functor} \; X_1 \; (X_2 : S_1) : S_2$ is elaborated into $\mt{structure} \; X_1 : \mt{functor}(X_2 : S_1) : S_2$. A declaration $\mt{functor} \; X_1 \; (X_2 : S_1) : S_2 = M$ is elaborated into $\mt{structure} \; X_1 : \mt{functor}(X_2 : S_1) : S_2 = \mt{functor}(X_2 : S_1) : S_2 = M$.
adamc@529	611
adamc@852	612 An $\mt{open} \; \mt{constraints}$ declaration is implicitly inserted for the argument of every functor at the beginning of the functor body. For every declaration of the form $\mt{structure} \; X : S = \mt{struct} \ldots \mt{end}$, an $\mt{open} \; \mt{constraints} \; X$ declaration is implicitly inserted immediately afterward.
adamc@852	613
adamc@853	614 A declaration $\mt{table} \; x : \{(c = c,)^\}$ is elaborated into $\mt{table} \; x : [(c = c,)^]$.
adamc@529	615
adamc@529	616 The syntax $\mt{where} \; \mt{type}$ is an alternate form of $\mt{where} \; \mt{con}$.
adamc@529	617
adamc@529	618 The syntax $\mt{if} \; e \; \mt{then} \; e_1 \; \mt{else} \; e_2$ expands to $\mt{case} \; e \; \mt{of} \; \mt{Basis}.\mt{True} \Rightarrow e_1 \mid \mt{Basis}.\mt{False} \Rightarrow e_2$.
adamc@529	619
adamc@529	620 There are infix operator syntaxes for a number of functions defined in the $\mt{Basis}$ module. There is $=$ for $\mt{eq}$, $\neq$ for $\mt{neq}$, $-$ for $\mt{neg}$ (as a prefix operator) and $\mt{minus}$, $+$ for $\mt{plus}$, $\times$ for $\mt{times}$, $/$ for $\mt{div}$, $\%$ for $\mt{mod}$, $<$ for $\mt{lt}$, $\leq$ for $\mt{le}$, $>$ for $\mt{gt}$, and $\geq$ for $\mt{ge}$.
adamc@529	621
adamc@784	622 A signature item $\mt{table} \; x : c$ is shorthand for $\mt{val} \; x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_table} \; c \; []$. $\mt{view} \; x : c$ is shorthand for $\mt{val} \; x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_view} \; c$, $\mt{sequence} \; x$ is short for $\mt{val} \; x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_sequence}$. $\mt{cookie} \; x : \tau$ is shorthand for $\mt{val} \; x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{http\_cookie} \; \tau$, and $\mt{style} \; x$ is shorthand for $\mt{val} \; x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{css\_class}$.
adamc@529	623
adamc@530	624
adamc@530	625 \section{Static Semantics}
adamc@530	626
adamc@530	627 In this section, we give a declarative presentation of Ur's typing rules and related judgments. Inference is the subject of the next section; here, we assume that an oracle has filled in all wildcards with concrete values.
adamc@530	628
adam@1891	629 The notations used here are the standard ones of programming language semantics. They are probably the most effective way to convey this information. At the same time, most Ur/Web users can probably get by \emph{without} knowing the contents of this section! If you're interested in diving into the details of Ur typing but are unfamiliar with ``inference rule notation,'' I recommend the following book:
adam@1891	630 \begin{quote}
adam@1891	631 Benjamin C. Pierce, \emph{Types and Programming Languages}, MIT Press, 2002.
adam@1891	632 \end{quote}
adam@1891	633
adamc@530	634 Since there is significant mutual recursion among the judgments, we introduce them all before beginning to give rules. We use the same variety of contexts throughout this section, implicitly introducing new sorts of context entries as needed.
adamc@530	635 \begin{itemize}
adamc@655	636 \item $\Gamma \vdash \kappa$ expresses kind well-formedness.
adamc@530	637 \item $\Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa$ assigns a kind to a constructor in a context.
adamc@530	638 \item $\Gamma \vdash c \sim c$ proves the disjointness of two record constructors; that is, that they share no field names. We overload the judgment to apply to pairs of field names as well.
adamc@531	639 \item $\Gamma \vdash c \hookrightarrow C$ proves that record constructor $c$ decomposes into set $C$ of field names and record constructors.
adamc@530	640 \item $\Gamma \vdash c \equiv c$ proves the computational equivalence of two constructors. This is often called a \emph{definitional equality} in the world of type theory.
adamc@530	641 \item $\Gamma \vdash e : \tau$ is a standard typing judgment.
adamc@534	642 \item $\Gamma \vdash p \leadsto \Gamma; \tau$ combines typing of patterns with calculation of which new variables they bind.
adamc@537	643 \item $\Gamma \vdash d \leadsto \Gamma$ expresses how a declaration modifies a context. We overload this judgment to apply to sequences of declarations, as well as to signature items and sequences of signature items.
adamc@537	644 \item $\Gamma \vdash S \equiv S$ is the signature equivalence judgment.
adamc@536	645 \item $\Gamma \vdash S \leq S$ is the signature compatibility judgment. We write $\Gamma \vdash S$ as shorthand for $\Gamma \vdash S \leq S$.
adamc@530	646 \item $\Gamma \vdash M : S$ is the module signature checking judgment.
adamc@537	647 \item $\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V)$ is a partial function for projecting a signature item from $\overline{s}$, given the module $M$ that we project from. $V$ may be $\mt{con} \; x$, $\mt{datatype} \; x$, $\mt{val} \; x$, $\mt{signature} \; X$, or $\mt{structure} \; X$. The parameter $M$ is needed because the projected signature item may refer to other items from $\overline{s}$.
adamc@539	648 \item $\mt{selfify}(M, \overline{s})$ adds information to signature items $\overline{s}$ to reflect the fact that we are concerned with the particular module $M$. This function is overloaded to work over individual signature items as well.
adamc@530	649 \end{itemize}
adamc@530	650
adamc@655	651
adamc@655	652 \subsection{Kind Well-Formedness}
adamc@655	653
adamc@655	654 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{Type}}{}
adamc@655	655 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{Unit}}{}
adamc@655	656 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{Name}}{}
adamc@655	657 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \kappa_1 \to \kappa_2}{
adamc@655	658 \Gamma \vdash \kappa_1
adamc@655	659 & \Gamma \vdash \kappa_2
adamc@655	660 }
adamc@655	661 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \{\kappa\}}{
adamc@655	662 \Gamma \vdash \kappa
adamc@655	663 }
adamc@655	664 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash (\kappa_1 \times \ldots \times \kappa_n)}{
adamc@655	665 \forall i: \Gamma \vdash \kappa_i
adamc@655	666 }$$
adamc@655	667
adamc@655	668 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash X}{
adamc@655	669 X \in \Gamma
adamc@655	670 }
adamc@655	671 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \longrightarrow \kappa}{
adamc@655	672 \Gamma, X \vdash \kappa
adamc@655	673 }$$
adamc@655	674
adamc@530	675 \subsection{Kinding}
adamc@530	676
adamc@655	677 We write $[X \mapsto \kappa_1]\kappa_2$ for capture-avoiding substitution of $\kappa_1$ for $X$ in $\kappa_2$.
adamc@655	678
adamc@530	679 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash (c) :: \kappa :: \kappa}{
adamc@530	680 \Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@530	681 }
adamc@530	682 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash x :: \kappa}{
adamc@530	683 x :: \kappa \in \Gamma
adamc@530	684 }
adamc@530	685 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash x :: \kappa}{
adamc@530	686 x :: \kappa = c \in \Gamma
adamc@530	687 }$$
adamc@530	688
adamc@530	689 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash M.x :: \kappa}{
adamc@537	690 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	691 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) = \kappa
adamc@530	692 }
adamc@530	693 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash M.x :: \kappa}{
adamc@537	694 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	695 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) = (\kappa, c)
adamc@530	696 }$$
adamc@530	697
adamc@530	698 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \tau_1 \to \tau_2 :: \mt{Type}}{
adamc@530	699 \Gamma \vdash \tau_1 :: \mt{Type}
adamc@530	700 & \Gamma \vdash \tau_2 :: \mt{Type}
adamc@530	701 }
adamc@530	702 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash x \; ? \: \kappa \to \tau :: \mt{Type}}{
adamc@530	703 \Gamma, x :: \kappa \vdash \tau :: \mt{Type}
adamc@530	704 }
adamc@655	705 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \longrightarrow \tau :: \mt{Type}}{
adamc@655	706 \Gamma, X \vdash \tau :: \mt{Type}
adamc@655	707 }
adamc@530	708 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \$c :: \mt{Type}}{
adamc@530	709 \Gamma \vdash c :: \{\mt{Type}\}
adamc@530	710 }$$
adamc@530	711
adamc@530	712 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \; c_2 :: \kappa_2}{
adamc@530	713 \Gamma \vdash c_1 :: \kappa_1 \to \kappa_2
adamc@530	714 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 :: \kappa_1
adamc@530	715 }
adamc@530	716 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \lambda x \; :: \; \kappa_1 \Rightarrow c :: \kappa_1 \to \kappa_2}{
adamc@530	717 \Gamma, x :: \kappa_1 \vdash c :: \kappa_2
adamc@530	718 }$$
adamc@530	719
adamc@655	720 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c[\kappa'] :: [X \mapsto \kappa']\kappa}{
adamc@655	721 \Gamma \vdash c :: X \to \kappa
adamc@655	722 & \Gamma \vdash \kappa'
adamc@655	723 }
adamc@655	724 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \Longrightarrow c :: X \to \kappa}{
adamc@655	725 \Gamma, X \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@655	726 }$$
adamc@655	727
adamc@530	728 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash () :: \mt{Unit}}{}
adamc@530	729 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \#X :: \mt{Name}}{}$$
adamc@530	730
adamc@530	731 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash [\overline{c_i = c'_i}] :: \{\kappa\}}{
adamc@530	732 \forall i: \Gamma \vdash c_i : \mt{Name}
adamc@530	733 & \Gamma \vdash c'_i :: \kappa
adamc@530	734 & \forall i \neq j: \Gamma \vdash c_i \sim c_j
adamc@530	735 }
adamc@530	736 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \rc c_2 :: \{\kappa\}}{
adamc@530	737 \Gamma \vdash c_1 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@530	738 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@530	739 & \Gamma \vdash c_1 \sim c_2
adamc@530	740 }$$
adamc@530	741
adamc@655	742 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} :: (\kappa_1 \to \kappa_2) \to \{\kappa_1\} \to \{\kappa_2\}}{}$$
adamc@530	743
adamc@573	744 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash (\overline c) :: (\kappa_1 \times \ldots \times \kappa_n)}{
adamc@573	745 \forall i: \Gamma \vdash c_i :: \kappa_i
adamc@530	746 }
adamc@573	747 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c.i :: \kappa_i}{
adamc@573	748 \Gamma \vdash c :: (\kappa_1 \times \ldots \times \kappa_n)
adamc@530	749 }$$
adamc@530	750
adamc@655	751 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \lambda [c_1 \sim c_2] \Rightarrow \tau :: \mt{Type}}{
adamc@655	752 \Gamma \vdash c_1 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@530	753 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 :: \{\kappa'\}
adamc@655	754 & \Gamma, c_1 \sim c_2 \vdash \tau :: \mt{Type}
adamc@530	755 }$$
adamc@530	756
adamc@531	757 \subsection{Record Disjointness}
adamc@531	758
adamc@531	759 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \sim c_2}{
adamc@558	760 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \hookrightarrow C_1
adamc@558	761 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 \hookrightarrow C_2
adamc@558	762 & \forall c'_1 \in C_1, c'_2 \in C_2: \Gamma \vdash c'_1 \sim c'_2
adamc@531	763 }
adamc@531	764 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \sim X'}{
adamc@531	765 X \neq X'
adamc@531	766 }$$
adamc@531	767
adamc@531	768 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \sim c_2}{
adamc@531	769 c'_1 \sim c'_2 \in \Gamma
adamc@558	770 & \Gamma \vdash c'_1 \hookrightarrow C_1
adamc@558	771 & \Gamma \vdash c'_2 \hookrightarrow C_2
adamc@558	772 & c_1 \in C_1
adamc@558	773 & c_2 \in C_2
adamc@531	774 }$$
adamc@531	775
adamc@531	776 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c \hookrightarrow \{c\}}{}
adamc@531	777 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash [\overline{c = c'}] \hookrightarrow \{\overline{c}\}}{}
adamc@531	778 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \rc c_2 \hookrightarrow C_1 \cup C_2}{
adamc@531	779 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \hookrightarrow C_1
adamc@531	780 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 \hookrightarrow C_2
adamc@531	781 }
adamc@531	782 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c \hookrightarrow C}{
adamc@531	783 \Gamma \vdash c \equiv c'
adamc@531	784 & \Gamma \vdash c' \hookrightarrow C
adamc@531	785 }
adamc@531	786 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} \; f \; c \hookrightarrow C}{
adamc@531	787 \Gamma \vdash c \hookrightarrow C
adamc@531	788 }$$
adamc@531	789
adamc@541	790 \subsection{\label{definitional}Definitional Equality}
adamc@532	791
adamc@655	792 We use $\mathcal C$ to stand for a one-hole context that, when filled, yields a constructor. The notation $\mathcal C[c]$ plugs $c$ into $\mathcal C$. We omit the standard definition of one-hole contexts. We write $[x \mapsto c_1]c_2$ for capture-avoiding substitution of $c_1$ for $x$ in $c_2$, with analogous notation for substituting a kind in a constructor.
adamc@532	793
adamc@532	794 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c \equiv c}{}
adamc@532	795 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2}{
adamc@532	796 \Gamma \vdash c_2 \equiv c_1
adamc@532	797 }
adamc@532	798 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_3}{
adamc@532	799 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2
adamc@532	800 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 \equiv c_3
adamc@532	801 }
adamc@532	802 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mathcal C[c_1] \equiv \mathcal C[c_2]}{
adamc@532	803 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2
adamc@532	804 }$$
adamc@532	805
adamc@532	806 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash x \equiv c}{
adamc@532	807 x :: \kappa = c \in \Gamma
adamc@532	808 }
adamc@532	809 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash M.x \equiv c}{
adamc@537	810 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	811 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) = (\kappa, c)
adamc@532	812 }
adamc@532	813 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash (\overline c).i \equiv c_i}{}$$
adamc@532	814
adamc@532	815 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash (\lambda x :: \kappa \Rightarrow c) \; c' \equiv [x \mapsto c'] c}{}
adamc@655	816 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash (X \Longrightarrow c) [\kappa] \equiv [X \mapsto \kappa] c}{}$$
adamc@655	817
adamc@655	818 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \rc c_2 \equiv c_2 \rc c_1}{}
adamc@532	819 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash c_1 \rc (c_2 \rc c_3) \equiv (c_1 \rc c_2) \rc c_3}{}$$
adamc@532	820
adamc@532	821 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash [] \rc c \equiv c}{}
adamc@532	822 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash [\overline{c_1 = c'_1}] \rc [\overline{c_2 = c'_2}] \equiv [\overline{c_1 = c'_1}, \overline{c_2 = c'_2}]}{}$$
adamc@532	823
adamc@655	824 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} \; f \; [] \equiv []}{}
adamc@655	825 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} \; f \; ([c_1 = c_2] \rc c) \equiv [c_1 = f \; c_2] \rc \mt{map} \; f \; c}{}$$
adamc@532	826
adamc@532	827 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} \; (\lambda x \Rightarrow x) \; c \equiv c}{}
adamc@655	828 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} \; f \; (\mt{map} \; f' \; c)
adamc@655	829 \equiv \mt{map} \; (\lambda x \Rightarrow f \; (f' \; x)) \; c}{}$$
adamc@532	830
adamc@532	831 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{map} \; f \; (c_1 \rc c_2) \equiv \mt{map} \; f \; c_1 \rc \mt{map} \; f \; c_2}{}$$
adamc@531	832
adamc@534	833 \subsection{Expression Typing}
adamc@533	834
adamc@873	835 We assume the existence of a function $T$ assigning types to literal constants. It maps integer constants to $\mt{Basis}.\mt{int}$, float constants to $\mt{Basis}.\mt{float}$, character constants to $\mt{Basis}.\mt{char}$, and string constants to $\mt{Basis}.\mt{string}$.
adamc@533	836
adamc@533	837 We also refer to a function $\mathcal I$, such that $\mathcal I(\tau)$ ``uses an oracle'' to instantiate all constructor function arguments at the beginning of $\tau$ that are marked implicit; i.e., replace $x_1 ::: \kappa_1 \to \ldots \to x_n ::: \kappa_n \to \tau$ with $[x_1 \mapsto c_1]\ldots[x_n \mapsto c_n]\tau$, where the $c_i$s are inferred and $\tau$ does not start like $x ::: \kappa \to \tau'$.
adamc@533	838
adamc@533	839 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash e : \tau : \tau}{
adamc@533	840 \Gamma \vdash e : \tau
adamc@533	841 }
adamc@533	842 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash e : \tau}{
adamc@533	843 \Gamma \vdash e : \tau'
adamc@533	844 & \Gamma \vdash \tau' \equiv \tau
adamc@533	845 }
adamc@533	846 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \ell : T(\ell)}{}$$
adamc@533	847
adamc@533	848 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash x : \mathcal I(\tau)}{
adamc@533	849 x : \tau \in \Gamma
adamc@533	850 }
adamc@533	851 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash M.x : \mathcal I(\tau)}{
adamc@537	852 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	853 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; x) = \tau
adamc@533	854 }
adamc@533	855 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X : \mathcal I(\tau)}{
adamc@533	856 X : \tau \in \Gamma
adamc@533	857 }
adamc@533	858 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash M.X : \mathcal I(\tau)}{
adamc@537	859 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	860 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; X) = \tau
adamc@533	861 }$$
adamc@533	862
adamc@533	863 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash e_1 \; e_2 : \tau_2}{
adamc@533	864 \Gamma \vdash e_1 : \tau_1 \to \tau_2
adamc@533	865 & \Gamma \vdash e_2 : \tau_1
adamc@533	866 }
adamc@533	867 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \lambda x : \tau_1 \Rightarrow e : \tau_1 \to \tau_2}{
adamc@533	868 \Gamma, x : \tau_1 \vdash e : \tau_2
adamc@533	869 }$$
adamc@533	870
adamc@533	871 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash e [c] : [x \mapsto c]\tau}{
adamc@533	872 \Gamma \vdash e : x :: \kappa \to \tau
adamc@533	873 & \Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@533	874 }
adamc@852	875 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \lambda [x \; ? \; \kappa] \Rightarrow e : x \; ? \; \kappa \to \tau}{
adamc@533	876 \Gamma, x :: \kappa \vdash e : \tau
adamc@533	877 }$$
adamc@533	878
adamc@655	879 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash e [\kappa] : [X \mapsto \kappa]\tau}{
adamc@655	880 \Gamma \vdash e : X \longrightarrow \tau
adamc@655	881 & \Gamma \vdash \kappa
adamc@655	882 }
adamc@655	883 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \Longrightarrow e : X \longrightarrow \tau}{
adamc@655	884 \Gamma, X \vdash e : \tau
adamc@655	885 }$$
adamc@655	886
adamc@533	887 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \{\overline{c = e}\} : \{\overline{c : \tau}\}}{
adamc@533	888 \forall i: \Gamma \vdash c_i :: \mt{Name}
adamc@533	889 & \Gamma \vdash e_i : \tau_i
adamc@533	890 & \forall i \neq j: \Gamma \vdash c_i \sim c_j
adamc@533	891 }
adamc@533	892 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash e.c : \tau}{
adamc@533	893 \Gamma \vdash e : \$([c = \tau] \rc c')
adamc@533	894 }
adamc@533	895 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash e_1 \rc e_2 : \$(c_1 \rc c_2)}{
adamc@533	896 \Gamma \vdash e_1 : \$c_1
adamc@533	897 & \Gamma \vdash e_2 : \$c_2
adamc@573	898 & \Gamma \vdash c_1 \sim c_2
adamc@533	899 }$$
adamc@533	900
adamc@533	901 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash e \rcut c : \$c'}{
adamc@533	902 \Gamma \vdash e : \$([c = \tau] \rc c')
adamc@533	903 }
adamc@533	904 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash e \rcutM c : \$c'}{
adamc@533	905 \Gamma \vdash e : \$(c \rc c')
adamc@533	906 }$$
adamc@533	907
adamc@533	908 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{let} \; \overline{ed} \; \mt{in} \; e \; \mt{end} : \tau}{
adamc@533	909 \Gamma \vdash \overline{ed} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@533	910 & \Gamma' \vdash e : \tau
adamc@533	911 }
adamc@533	912 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{case} \; e \; \mt{of} \; \overline{p \Rightarrow e} : \tau}{
adamc@533	913 \forall i: \Gamma \vdash p_i \leadsto \Gamma_i, \tau'
adamc@533	914 & \Gamma_i \vdash e_i : \tau
adamc@533	915 }$$
adamc@533	916
adamc@573	917 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \lambda [c_1 \sim c_2] \Rightarrow e : \lambda [c_1 \sim c_2] \Rightarrow \tau}{
adamc@533	918 \Gamma \vdash c_1 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@655	919 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 :: \{\kappa'\}
adamc@533	920 & \Gamma, c_1 \sim c_2 \vdash e : \tau
adamc@662	921 }
adamc@662	922 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash e \; ! : \tau}{
adamc@662	923 \Gamma \vdash e : [c_1 \sim c_2] \Rightarrow \tau
adamc@662	924 & \Gamma \vdash c_1 \sim c_2
adamc@533	925 }$$
adamc@533	926
adamc@534	927 \subsection{Pattern Typing}
adamc@534	928
adamc@534	929 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \_ \leadsto \Gamma; \tau}{}
adamc@534	930 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash x \leadsto \Gamma, x : \tau; \tau}{}
adamc@534	931 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \ell \leadsto \Gamma; T(\ell)}{}$$
adamc@534	932
adamc@534	933 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash X \leadsto \Gamma; \overline{[x_i \mapsto \tau'_i]}\tau}{
adamc@534	934 X : \overline{x ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau \in \Gamma
adamc@534	935 & \textrm{$\tau$ not a function type}
adamc@534	936 }
adamc@534	937 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \; p \leadsto \Gamma'; \overline{[x_i \mapsto \tau'_i]}\tau}{
adamc@534	938 X : \overline{x ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau'' \to \tau \in \Gamma
adamc@534	939 & \Gamma \vdash p \leadsto \Gamma'; \overline{[x_i \mapsto \tau'_i]}\tau''
adamc@534	940 }$$
adamc@534	941
adamc@534	942 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash M.X \leadsto \Gamma; \overline{[x_i \mapsto \tau'_i]}\tau}{
adamc@537	943 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	944 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; X) = \overline{x ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau
adamc@534	945 & \textrm{$\tau$ not a function type}
adamc@534	946 }$$
adamc@534	947
adamc@534	948 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash M.X \; p \leadsto \Gamma'; \overline{[x_i \mapsto \tau'_i]}\tau}{
adamc@537	949 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	950 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; X) = \overline{x ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau'' \to \tau
adamc@534	951 & \Gamma \vdash p \leadsto \Gamma'; \overline{[x_i \mapsto \tau'_i]}\tau''
adamc@534	952 }$$
adamc@534	953
adamc@534	954 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \{\overline{x = p}\} \leadsto \Gamma_n; \{\overline{x = \tau}\}}{
adamc@534	955 \Gamma_0 = \Gamma
adamc@534	956 & \forall i: \Gamma_i \vdash p_i \leadsto \Gamma_{i+1}; \tau_i
adamc@534	957 }
adamc@534	958 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \{\overline{x = p}, \ldots\} \leadsto \Gamma_n; \$([\overline{x = \tau}] \rc c)}{
adamc@534	959 \Gamma_0 = \Gamma
adamc@534	960 & \forall i: \Gamma_i \vdash p_i \leadsto \Gamma_{i+1}; \tau_i
adamc@534	961 }$$
adamc@534	962
adamc@852	963 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash p : \tau \leadsto \Gamma'; \tau}{
adamc@852	964 \Gamma \vdash p \leadsto \Gamma'; \tau'
adamc@852	965 & \Gamma \vdash \tau' \equiv \tau
adamc@852	966 }$$
adamc@852	967
adamc@535	968 \subsection{Declaration Typing}
adamc@535	969
adamc@535	970 We use an auxiliary judgment $\overline{y}; x; \Gamma \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'$, expressing the enrichment of $\Gamma$ with the types of the datatype constructors $\overline{dc}$, when they are known to belong to datatype $x$ with type parameters $\overline{y}$.
adamc@535	971
adamc@558	972 We presuppose the existence of a function $\mathcal O$, where $\mathcal O(M, \overline{s})$ implements the $\mt{open}$ declaration by producing a context with the appropriate entry for each available component of module $M$ with signature items $\overline{s}$. Where possible, $\mathcal O$ uses ``transparent'' entries (e.g., an abstract type $M.x$ is mapped to $x :: \mt{Type} = M.x$), so that the relationship with $M$ is maintained. A related function $\mathcal O_c$ builds a context containing the disjointness constraints found in $\overline s$.
adamc@537	973 We write $\kappa_1^n \to \kappa$ as a shorthand, where $\kappa_1^0 \to \kappa = \kappa$ and $\kappa_1^{n+1} \to \kappa_2 = \kappa_1 \to (\kappa_1^n \to \kappa_2)$. We write $\mt{len}(\overline{y})$ for the length of vector $\overline{y}$ of variables.
adamc@535	974
adamc@535	975 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \cdot \leadsto \Gamma}{}
adamc@535	976 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash d, \overline{d} \leadsto \Gamma''}{
adamc@535	977 \Gamma \vdash d \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@535	978 & \Gamma' \vdash \overline{d} \leadsto \Gamma''
adamc@535	979 }$$
adamc@535	980
adamc@535	981 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \leadsto \Gamma, x :: \kappa = c}{
adamc@535	982 \Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@535	983 }
adamc@535	984 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'}{
adamc@535	985 \overline{y}; x; \Gamma, x :: \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline y)} \to \mt{Type} \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@535	986 }$$
adamc@535	987
adamc@535	988 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z \leadsto \Gamma'}{
adamc@537	989 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	990 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{datatype} \; z) = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})
adamc@535	991 & \overline{y}; x; \Gamma, x :: \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline y)} \to \mt{Type} = M.z \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@535	992 }$$
adamc@535	993
adamc@535	994 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{val} \; x : \tau = e \leadsto \Gamma, x : \tau}{
adamc@535	995 \Gamma \vdash e : \tau
adamc@535	996 }$$
adamc@535	997
adamc@535	998 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{val} \; \mt{rec} \; \overline{x : \tau = e} \leadsto \Gamma, \overline{x : \tau}}{
adamc@535	999 \forall i: \Gamma, \overline{x : \tau} \vdash e_i : \tau_i
adamc@535	1000 & \textrm{$e_i$ starts with an expression $\lambda$, optionally preceded by constructor and disjointness $\lambda$s}
adamc@535	1001 }$$
adamc@535	1002
adamc@535	1003 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{structure} \; X : S = M \leadsto \Gamma, X : S}{
adamc@535	1004 \Gamma \vdash M : S
adamc@558	1005 & \textrm{ $M$ not a constant or application}
adamc@535	1006 }
adamc@558	1007 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{structure} \; X : S = M \leadsto \Gamma, X : \mt{selfify}(X, \overline{s})}{
adamc@558	1008 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@539	1009 }$$
adamc@539	1010
adamc@539	1011 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{signature} \; X = S \leadsto \Gamma, X = S}{
adamc@535	1012 \Gamma \vdash S
adamc@535	1013 }$$
adamc@535	1014
adamc@537	1015 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{open} \; M \leadsto \Gamma, \mathcal O(M, \overline{s})}{
adamc@537	1016 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@535	1017 }$$
adamc@535	1018
adamc@535	1019 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2 \leadsto \Gamma}{
adamc@535	1020 \Gamma \vdash c_1 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@535	1021 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@535	1022 & \Gamma \vdash c_1 \sim c_2
adamc@535	1023 }
adamc@537	1024 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{open} \; \mt{constraints} \; M \leadsto \Gamma, \mathcal O_c(M, \overline{s})}{
adamc@537	1025 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@535	1026 }$$
adamc@535	1027
adamc@784	1028 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{table} \; x : c \leadsto \Gamma, x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_table} \; c \; []}{
adamc@535	1029 \Gamma \vdash c :: \{\mt{Type}\}
adamc@535	1030 }
adam@1594	1031 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{view} \; x = e \leadsto \Gamma, x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_view} \; c}{
adam@1594	1032 \Gamma \vdash e :: \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_query} \; [] \; [] \; (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \_ \Rightarrow []) \; c') \; c
adamc@784	1033 }$$
adamc@784	1034
adamc@784	1035 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{sequence} \; x \leadsto \Gamma, x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_sequence}}{}$$
adamc@535	1036
adamc@535	1037 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{cookie} \; x : \tau \leadsto \Gamma, x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{http\_cookie} \; \tau}{
adamc@535	1038 \Gamma \vdash \tau :: \mt{Type}
adamc@784	1039 }
adamc@784	1040 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{style} \; x \leadsto \Gamma, x : \mt{Basis}.\mt{css\_class}}{}$$
adamc@535	1041
adamc@1085	1042 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{task} \; e_1 = e_2 \leadsto \Gamma}{
adam@1348	1043 \Gamma \vdash e_1 :: \mt{Basis}.\mt{task\_kind} \; \tau
adam@1348	1044 & \Gamma \vdash e_2 :: \tau \to \mt{Basis}.\mt{transaction} \; \{\}
adamc@1085	1045 }$$
adamc@1085	1046
adamc@535	1047 $$\infer{\overline{y}; x; \Gamma \vdash \cdot \leadsto \Gamma}{}
adamc@535	1048 \quad \infer{\overline{y}; x; \Gamma \vdash X \mid \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma', X : \overline{y ::: \mt{Type}} \to x \; \overline{y}}{
adamc@535	1049 \overline{y}; x; \Gamma \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@535	1050 }
adamc@535	1051 \quad \infer{\overline{y}; x; \Gamma \vdash X \; \mt{of} \; \tau \mid \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma', X : \overline{y ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau \to x \; \overline{y}}{
adamc@535	1052 \overline{y}; x; \Gamma \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@535	1053 }$$
adamc@535	1054
adamc@537	1055 \subsection{Signature Item Typing}
adamc@537	1056
adamc@537	1057 We appeal to a signature item analogue of the $\mathcal O$ function from the last subsection.
adamc@537	1058
adam@1797	1059 This is the first judgment where we deal with constructor classes, for the $\mt{class}$ forms. We will omit their special handling in this formal specification. Section \ref{typeclasses} gives an informal description of how constructor classes influence type inference.
adam@1797	1060
adamc@537	1061 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \cdot \leadsto \Gamma}{}
adamc@537	1062 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash s, \overline{s} \leadsto \Gamma''}{
adamc@537	1063 \Gamma \vdash s \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@537	1064 & \Gamma' \vdash \overline{s} \leadsto \Gamma''
adamc@537	1065 }$$
adamc@537	1066
adamc@537	1067 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa \leadsto \Gamma, x :: \kappa}{}
adamc@537	1068 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \leadsto \Gamma, x :: \kappa = c}{
adamc@537	1069 \Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@537	1070 }
adamc@537	1071 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'}{
adamc@537	1072 \overline{y}; x; \Gamma, x :: \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline y)} \to \mt{Type} \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@537	1073 }$$
adamc@537	1074
adamc@537	1075 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z \leadsto \Gamma'}{
adamc@537	1076 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	1077 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{datatype} \; z) = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})
adamc@537	1078 & \overline{y}; x; \Gamma, x :: \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline y)} \to \mt{Type} = M.z \vdash \overline{dc} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@537	1079 }$$
adamc@537	1080
adamc@537	1081 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{val} \; x : \tau \leadsto \Gamma, x : \tau}{
adamc@537	1082 \Gamma \vdash \tau :: \mt{Type}
adamc@537	1083 }$$
adamc@537	1084
adamc@537	1085 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{structure} \; X : S \leadsto \Gamma, X : S}{
adamc@537	1086 \Gamma \vdash S
adamc@537	1087 }
adamc@537	1088 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{signature} \; X = S \leadsto \Gamma, X = S}{
adamc@537	1089 \Gamma \vdash S
adamc@537	1090 }$$
adamc@537	1091
adamc@537	1092 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{include} \; S \leadsto \Gamma, \mathcal O(\overline{s})}{
adamc@537	1093 \Gamma \vdash S
adamc@537	1094 & \Gamma \vdash S \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	1095 }$$
adamc@537	1096
adamc@537	1097 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2 \leadsto \Gamma, c_1 \sim c_2}{
adamc@537	1098 \Gamma \vdash c_1 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@537	1099 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 :: \{\kappa\}
adamc@537	1100 }$$
adamc@537	1101
adamc@784	1102 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c \leadsto \Gamma, x :: \kappa = c}{
adamc@784	1103 \Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@537	1104 }
adamc@784	1105 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa \leadsto \Gamma, x :: \kappa}{}$$
adamc@537	1106
adamc@536	1107 \subsection{Signature Compatibility}
adamc@536	1108
adam@1797	1109 To simplify the judgments in this section, we assume that all signatures are alpha-varied as necessary to avoid including multiple bindings for the same identifier. This is in addition to the usual alpha-variation of locally bound variables.
adamc@537	1110
adamc@537	1111 We rely on a judgment $\Gamma \vdash \overline{s} \leq s'$, which expresses the occurrence in signature items $\overline{s}$ of an item compatible with $s'$. We also use a judgment $\Gamma \vdash \overline{dc} \leq \overline{dc}$, which expresses compatibility of datatype definitions.
adamc@537	1112
adamc@536	1113 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash S \equiv S}{}
adamc@536	1114 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash S_1 \equiv S_2}{
adamc@536	1115 \Gamma \vdash S_2 \equiv S_1
adamc@536	1116 }
adamc@536	1117 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \equiv S}{
adamc@536	1118 X = S \in \Gamma
adamc@536	1119 }
adamc@536	1120 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash M.X \equiv S}{
adamc@537	1121 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	1122 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{signature} \; X) = S
adamc@536	1123 }$$
adamc@536	1124
adamc@536	1125 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash S \; \mt{where} \; \mt{con} \; x = c \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s^1} \; \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \; \overline{s_2} \; \mt{end}}{
adamc@536	1126 \Gamma \vdash S \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s^1} \; \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa \; \overline{s_2} \; \mt{end}
adamc@536	1127 & \Gamma \vdash c :: \kappa
adamc@537	1128 }
adamc@537	1129 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{sig} \; \overline{s^1} \; \mt{include} \; S \; \overline{s^2} \; \mt{end} \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s^1} \; \overline{s} \; \overline{s^2} \; \mt{end}}{
adamc@537	1130 \Gamma \vdash S \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@536	1131 }$$
adamc@536	1132
adamc@536	1133 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash S_1 \leq S_2}{
adamc@536	1134 \Gamma \vdash S_1 \equiv S_2
adamc@536	1135 }
adamc@536	1136 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end} \leq \mt{sig} \; \mt{end}}{}
adamc@537	1137 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end} \leq \mt{sig} \; s' \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}}{
adamc@537	1138 \Gamma \vdash \overline{s} \leq s'
adamc@537	1139 & \Gamma \vdash s' \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@537	1140 & \Gamma' \vdash \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end} \leq \mt{sig} \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	1141 }$$
adamc@537	1142
adamc@537	1143 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash s \; \overline{s} \leq s'}{
adamc@537	1144 \Gamma \vdash s \leq s'
adamc@537	1145 }
adamc@537	1146 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash s \; \overline{s} \leq s'}{
adamc@537	1147 \Gamma \vdash s \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@537	1148 & \Gamma' \vdash \overline{s} \leq s'
adamc@536	1149 }$$
adamc@536	1150
adamc@536	1151 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{functor} (X : S_1) : S_2 \leq \mt{functor} (X : S'_1) : S'_2}{
adamc@536	1152 \Gamma \vdash S'_1 \leq S_1
adamc@536	1153 & \Gamma, X : S'_1 \vdash S_2 \leq S'_2
adamc@536	1154 }$$
adamc@536	1155
adamc@537	1156 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adamc@537	1157 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adamc@558	1158 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline y)} \to \mt{Type}}{}$$
adamc@537	1159
adamc@537	1160 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(y)} \to \mt{Type}}{
adamc@537	1161 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	1162 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{datatype} \; z) = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})
adamc@537	1163 }$$
adamc@537	1164
adamc@784	1165 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adamc@784	1166 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa}{}$$
adamc@537	1167
adamc@537	1168 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c_1 \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \mt{\kappa} = c_2}{
adamc@537	1169 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2
adamc@537	1170 }
adamc@784	1171 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c_1 \leq \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c_2}{
adamc@537	1172 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2
adamc@537	1173 }$$
adamc@537	1174
adamc@537	1175 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \leq \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc'}}{
adamc@537	1176 \Gamma, \overline{y :: \mt{Type}} \vdash \overline{dc} \leq \overline{dc'}
adamc@537	1177 }$$
adamc@537	1178
adamc@537	1179 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z \leq \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc'}}{
adamc@537	1180 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@537	1181 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{datatype} \; z) = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})
adamc@537	1182 & \Gamma, \overline{y :: \mt{Type}} \vdash \overline{dc} \leq \overline{dc'}
adamc@537	1183 }$$
adamc@537	1184
adamc@537	1185 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \cdot \leq \cdot}{}
adamc@537	1186 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X; \overline{dc} \leq X; \overline{dc'}}{
adamc@537	1187 \Gamma \vdash \overline{dc} \leq \overline{dc'}
adamc@537	1188 }
adamc@537	1189 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X \; \mt{of} \; \tau_1; \overline{dc} \leq X \; \mt{of} \; \tau_2; \overline{dc'}}{
adamc@537	1190 \Gamma \vdash \tau_1 \equiv \tau_2
adamc@537	1191 & \Gamma \vdash \overline{dc} \leq \overline{dc'}
adamc@537	1192 }$$
adamc@537	1193
adamc@537	1194 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z \leq \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z'}{
adamc@537	1195 \Gamma \vdash M.z \equiv M'.z'
adamc@537	1196 }$$
adamc@537	1197
adamc@537	1198 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{val} \; x : \tau_1 \leq \mt{val} \; x : \tau_2}{
adamc@537	1199 \Gamma \vdash \tau_1 \equiv \tau_2
adamc@537	1200 }
adamc@537	1201 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{structure} \; X : S_1 \leq \mt{structure} \; X : S_2}{
adamc@537	1202 \Gamma \vdash S_1 \leq S_2
adamc@537	1203 }
adamc@537	1204 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{signature} \; X = S_1 \leq \mt{signature} \; X = S_2}{
adamc@537	1205 \Gamma \vdash S_1 \leq S_2
adamc@537	1206 & \Gamma \vdash S_2 \leq S_1
adamc@537	1207 }$$
adamc@537	1208
adamc@537	1209 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2 \leq \mt{constraint} \; c'_1 \sim c'_2}{
adamc@537	1210 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c'_1
adamc@537	1211 & \Gamma \vdash c_2 \equiv c'_2
adamc@537	1212 }$$
adamc@537	1213
adamc@655	1214 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa \leq \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adamc@655	1215 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c \leq \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adamc@655	1216 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c_1 \leq \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c_2}{
adamc@537	1217 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2
adamc@537	1218 }$$
adamc@537	1219
adam@1797	1220 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa \leq \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adam@1797	1221 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \leq \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa}{}
adam@1797	1222 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c_1 \leq \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c_2}{
adam@1797	1223 \Gamma \vdash c_1 \equiv c_2
adam@1797	1224 }$$
adam@1797	1225
adamc@538	1226 \subsection{Module Typing}
adamc@538	1227
adamc@538	1228 We use a helper function $\mt{sigOf}$, which converts declarations and sequences of declarations into their principal signature items and sequences of signature items, respectively.
adamc@538	1229
adamc@538	1230 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash M : S}{
adamc@538	1231 \Gamma \vdash M : S'
adamc@538	1232 & \Gamma \vdash S' \leq S
adamc@538	1233 }
adamc@538	1234 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{struct} \; \overline{d} \; \mt{end} : \mt{sig} \; \mt{sigOf}(\overline{d}) \; \mt{end}}{
adamc@538	1235 \Gamma \vdash \overline{d} \leadsto \Gamma'
adamc@538	1236 }
adamc@538	1237 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash X : S}{
adamc@538	1238 X : S \in \Gamma
adamc@538	1239 }$$
adamc@538	1240
adamc@538	1241 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash M.X : S}{
adamc@538	1242 \Gamma \vdash M : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}
adamc@538	1243 & \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, \mt{structure} \; X) = S
adamc@538	1244 }$$
adamc@538	1245
adamc@538	1246 $$\infer{\Gamma \vdash M_1(M_2) : [X \mapsto M_2]S_2}{
adamc@538	1247 \Gamma \vdash M_1 : \mt{functor}(X : S_1) : S_2
adamc@538	1248 & \Gamma \vdash M_2 : S_1
adamc@538	1249 }
adamc@538	1250 \quad \infer{\Gamma \vdash \mt{functor} (X : S_1) : S_2 = M : \mt{functor} (X : S_1) : S_2}{
adamc@538	1251 \Gamma \vdash S_1
adamc@538	1252 & \Gamma, X : S_1 \vdash S_2
adamc@538	1253 & \Gamma, X : S_1 \vdash M : S_2
adamc@538	1254 }$$
adamc@538	1255
adamc@538	1256 \begin{eqnarray*}
adamc@538	1257 \mt{sigOf}(\cdot) &=& \cdot \\
adamc@538	1258 \mt{sigOf}(s \; \overline{s'}) &=& \mt{sigOf}(s) \; \mt{sigOf}(\overline{s'}) \\
adamc@538	1259 \\
adamc@538	1260 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c) &=& \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \\
adamc@538	1261 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc}) &=& \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \\
adamc@538	1262 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z) &=& \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M.z \\
adamc@538	1263 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{val} \; x : \tau = e) &=& \mt{val} \; x : \tau \\
adamc@538	1264 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{val} \; \mt{rec} \; \overline{x : \tau = e}) &=& \overline{\mt{val} \; x : \tau} \\
adamc@538	1265 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{structure} \; X : S = M) &=& \mt{structure} \; X : S \\
adamc@538	1266 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{signature} \; X = S) &=& \mt{signature} \; X = S \\
adamc@538	1267 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{open} \; M) &=& \mt{include} \; S \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash M : S$)} \\
adamc@538	1268 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2) &=& \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2 \\
adamc@538	1269 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{open} \; \mt{constraints} \; M) &=& \cdot \\
adamc@538	1270 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{table} \; x : c) &=& \mt{table} \; x : c \\
adam@1594	1271 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{view} \; x = e) &=& \mt{view} \; x : c \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash e : \mt{Basis}.\mt{sql\_query} \; [] \; [] \; (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \_ \Rightarrow []) \; c') \; c$)} \\
adamc@538	1272 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{sequence} \; x) &=& \mt{sequence} \; x \\
adamc@538	1273 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{cookie} \; x : \tau) &=& \mt{cookie} \; x : \tau \\
adam@1797	1274 \mt{sigOf}(\mt{style} \; x) &=& \mt{style} \; x
adamc@538	1275 \end{eqnarray*}
adamc@539	1276 \begin{eqnarray*}
adamc@539	1277 \mt{selfify}(M, \cdot) &=& \cdot \\
adamc@558	1278 \mt{selfify}(M, s \; \overline{s'}) &=& \mt{selfify}(M, s) \; \mt{selfify}(M, \overline{s'}) \\
adamc@539	1279 \\
adamc@539	1280 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa) &=& \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = M.x \\
adamc@539	1281 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c) &=& \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \\
adamc@539	1282 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc}) &=& \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \mt{datatype} \; M.x \\
adamc@539	1283 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z) &=& \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z \\
adamc@539	1284 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{val} \; x : \tau) &=& \mt{val} \; x : \tau \\
adamc@539	1285 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{structure} \; X : S) &=& \mt{structure} \; X : \mt{selfify}(M.X, \overline{s}) \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash S \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s} \; \mt{end}$)} \\
adamc@539	1286 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{signature} \; X = S) &=& \mt{signature} \; X = S \\
adamc@539	1287 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{include} \; S) &=& \mt{include} \; S \\
adamc@539	1288 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2) &=& \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2 \\
adamc@655	1289 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa) &=& \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = M.x \\
adamc@655	1290 \mt{selfify}(M, \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c) &=& \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c \\
adamc@539	1291 \end{eqnarray*}
adamc@539	1292
adamc@540	1293 \subsection{Module Projection}
adamc@540	1294
adamc@540	1295 \begin{eqnarray*}
adamc@540	1296 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& \kappa \\
adamc@540	1297 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& (\kappa, c) \\
adamc@540	1298 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& \mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline{y})} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@540	1299 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& (\mt{Type}^{\mt{len}(\overline{y})} \to \mt{Type}, M'.z) \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash M' : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}$} \\
adamc@540	1300 && \textrm{and $\mt{proj}(M', \overline{s'}, \mt{datatype} \; z) = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})$)} \\
adamc@655	1301 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& \kappa \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@655	1302 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& (\kappa \to \mt{Type}, c) \\
adamc@540	1303 \\
adamc@540	1304 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \; \overline{s}, \mt{datatype} \; x) &=& (\overline{y}, \overline{dc}) \\
adamc@540	1305 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z \; \overline{s}, \mt{con} \; x) &=& \mt{proj}(M', \overline{s'}, \mt{datatype} \; z) \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash M' : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}$)} \\
adamc@540	1306 \\
adamc@540	1307 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{val} \; x : \tau \; \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; x) &=& \tau \\
adamc@540	1308 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \; \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; X) &=& \overline{y ::: \mt{Type}} \to M.x \; \overline y \textrm{ (where $X \in \overline{dc}$)} \\
adamc@540	1309 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \; \overline{s}, \mt{val} \; X) &=& \overline{y ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau \to M.x \; \overline y \textrm{ (where $X \; \mt{of} \; \tau \in \overline{dc}$)} \\
adamc@540	1310 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z, \mt{val} \; X) &=& \overline{y ::: \mt{Type}} \to M.x \; \overline y \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash M' : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}$} \\
adamc@540	1311 && \textrm{and $\mt{proj}(M', \overline{s'}, \mt{datatype} \; z = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})$ and $X \in \overline{dc}$)} \\
adamc@540	1312 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z, \mt{val} \; X) &=& \overline{y ::: \mt{Type}} \to \tau \to M.x \; \overline y \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash M' : \mt{sig} \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}$} \\
adamc@558	1313 && \textrm{and $\mt{proj}(M', \overline{s'}, \mt{datatype} \; z = (\overline{y}, \overline{dc})$ and $X \; \mt{of} \; \tau \in \overline{dc}$)} \\
adamc@540	1314 \\
adamc@540	1315 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{structure} \; X : S \; \overline{s}, \mt{structure} \; X) &=& S \\
adamc@540	1316 \\
adamc@540	1317 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{signature} \; X = S \; \overline{s}, \mt{signature} \; X) &=& S \\
adamc@540	1318 \\
adamc@540	1319 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [x \mapsto M.x]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1320 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{con} \; x :: \kappa = c \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [x \mapsto M.x]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1321 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x \; \overline{y} = \overline{dc} \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [x \mapsto M.x]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1322 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{datatype} \; x = \mt{datatype} \; M'.z \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [x \mapsto M.x]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1323 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{val} \; x : \tau \; \overline{s}, V) &=& \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1324 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{structure} \; X : S \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [X \mapsto M.X]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1325 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{signature} \; X = S \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [X \mapsto M.X]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1326 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{include} \; S \; \overline{s}, V) &=& \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s'} \; \overline{s}, V) \textrm{ (where $\Gamma \vdash S \equiv \mt{sig} \; \overline{s'} \; \mt{end}$)} \\
adamc@540	1327 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{constraint} \; c_1 \sim c_2 \; \overline{s}, V) &=& \mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@655	1328 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [x \mapsto M.x]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@655	1329 \mt{proj}(M, \mt{class} \; x :: \kappa = c \; \overline{s}, V) &=& [x \mapsto M.x]\mt{proj}(M, \overline{s}, V) \\
adamc@540	1330 \end{eqnarray*}
adamc@540	1331
adamc@541	1332
adamc@541	1333 \section{Type Inference}
adamc@541	1334
adamc@541	1335 The Ur/Web compiler uses \emph{heuristic type inference}, with no claims of completeness with respect to the declarative specification of the last section. The rules in use seem to work well in practice. This section summarizes those rules, to help Ur programmers predict what will work and what won't.
adamc@541	1336
adamc@541	1337 \subsection{Basic Unification}
adamc@541	1338
adamc@560	1339 Type-checkers for languages based on the Hindley-Milner type discipline, like ML and Haskell, take advantage of \emph{principal typing} properties, making complete type inference relatively straightforward. Inference algorithms are traditionally implemented using type unification variables, at various points asserting equalities between types, in the process discovering the values of type variables. The Ur/Web compiler uses the same basic strategy, but the complexity of the type system rules out easy completeness.
adamc@541	1340
adamc@656	1341 Type-checking can require evaluating recursive functional programs, thanks to the type-level $\mt{map}$ operator. When a unification variable appears in such a type, the next step of computation can be undetermined. The value of that variable might be determined later, but this would be ``too late'' for the unification problems generated at the first occurrence. This is the essential source of incompleteness.
adamc@541	1342
adamc@541	1343 Nonetheless, the unification engine tends to do reasonably well. Unlike in ML, polymorphism is never inferred in definitions; it must be indicated explicitly by writing out constructor-level parameters. By writing these and other annotations, the programmer can generally get the type inference engine to do most of the type reconstruction work.
adamc@541	1344
adamc@541	1345 \subsection{Unifying Record Types}
adamc@541	1346
adamc@570	1347 The type inference engine tries to take advantage of the algebraic rules governing type-level records, as shown in Section \ref{definitional}. When two constructors of record kind are unified, they are reduced to normal forms, with like terms crossed off from each normal form until, hopefully, nothing remains. This cannot be complete, with the inclusion of unification variables. The type-checker can help you understand what goes wrong when the process fails, as it outputs the unmatched remainders of the two normal forms.
adamc@541	1348
adamc@656	1349 \subsection{\label{typeclasses}Constructor Classes}
adamc@541	1350
adamc@784	1351 Ur includes a constructor class facility inspired by Haskell's. The current version is experimental, with very general Prolog-like facilities that can lead to compile-time non-termination.
adamc@541	1352
adam@1797	1353 Constructor classes are integrated with the module system. A constructor class of kind $\kappa$ is just a constructor of kind $\kappa$. By marking such a constructor $c$ as a constructor class, the programmer instructs the type inference engine to, in each scope, record all values of types $c \; c_1 \; \ldots \; c_n$ as \emph{instances}. Any function argument whose type is of such a form is treated as implicit, to be determined by examining the current instance database. Any suitably kinded constructor within a module may be exposed as a constructor class from outside the module, simply by using a $\mt{class}$ signature item instead of a $\mt{con}$ signature item in the module's signature.
adam@1797	1354
adam@1797	1355 The ``dictionary encoding'' often used in Haskell implementations is made explicit in Ur. Constructor class instances are just properly typed values, and they can also be considered as ``proofs'' of membership in the class. In some cases, it is useful to pass these proofs around explicitly. An underscore written where a proof is expected will also be inferred, if possible, from the current instance database.
adam@1797	1356
adam@1797	1357 Just as for constructors, constructors classes may be exported from modules, and they may be exported as concrete or abstract. Concrete constructor classes have their ``real'' definitions exposed, so that client code may add new instances freely. Automatic inference of concrete class instances will not generally work, so abstract classes are almost always the right choice. They are useful as ``predicates'' that can be used to enforce invariants, as we will see in some definitions of SQL syntax in the Ur/Web standard library. Free extension of a concrete class is easily supported by exporting a constructor function from a module, since the class implementation will be concrete within the module.
adamc@541	1358
adamc@541	1359 \subsection{Reverse-Engineering Record Types}
adamc@541	1360
adamc@656	1361 It's useful to write Ur functions and functors that take record constructors as inputs, but these constructors can grow quite long, even though their values are often implied by other arguments. The compiler uses a simple heuristic to infer the values of unification variables that are mapped over, yielding known results. If the result is empty, we're done; if it's not empty, we replace a single unification variable with a new constructor formed from three new unification variables, as in $[\alpha = \beta] \rc \gamma$. This process can often be repeated to determine a unification variable fully.
adamc@541	1362
adamc@541	1363 \subsection{Implicit Arguments in Functor Applications}
adamc@541	1364
adamc@656	1365 Constructor, constraint, and constructor class witness members of structures may be omitted, when those structures are used in contexts where their assigned signatures imply how to fill in those missing members. This feature combines well with reverse-engineering to allow for uses of complicated meta-programming functors with little more code than would be necessary to invoke an untyped, ad-hoc code generator.
adamc@541	1366
adamc@541	1367
adamc@542	1368 \section{The Ur Standard Library}
adamc@542	1369
adamc@542	1370 The built-in parts of the Ur/Web standard library are described by the signature in \texttt{lib/basis.urs} in the distribution. A module $\mt{Basis}$ ascribing to that signature is available in the initial environment, and every program is implicitly prefixed by $\mt{open} \; \mt{Basis}$.
adamc@542	1371
adamc@542	1372 Additionally, other common functions that are definable within Ur are included in \texttt{lib/top.urs} and \texttt{lib/top.ur}. This $\mt{Top}$ module is also opened implicitly.
adamc@542	1373
adamc@542	1374 The idea behind Ur is to serve as the ideal host for embedded domain-specific languages. For now, however, the ``generic'' functionality is intermixed with Ur/Web-specific functionality, including in these two library modules. We hope that these generic library components have types that speak for themselves. The next section introduces the Ur/Web-specific elements. Here, we only give the type declarations from the beginning of $\mt{Basis}$.
adamc@542	1375 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@542	1376 \mt{type} \; \mt{int} \\
adamc@542	1377 \mt{type} \; \mt{float} \\
adamc@873	1378 \mt{type} \; \mt{char} \\
adamc@542	1379 \mt{type} \; \mt{string} \\
adamc@542	1380 \mt{type} \; \mt{time} \\
adamc@785	1381 \mt{type} \; \mt{blob} \\
adamc@542	1382 \\
adamc@542	1383 \mt{type} \; \mt{unit} = \{\} \\
adamc@542	1384 \\
adamc@542	1385 \mt{datatype} \; \mt{bool} = \mt{False} \mid \mt{True} \\
adamc@542	1386 \\
adamc@785	1387 \mt{datatype} \; \mt{option} \; \mt{t} = \mt{None} \mid \mt{Some} \; \mt{of} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@785	1388 \\
adamc@785	1389 \mt{datatype} \; \mt{list} \; \mt{t} = \mt{Nil} \mid \mt{Cons} \; \mt{of} \; \mt{t} \times \mt{list} \; \mt{t}
adamc@542	1390 \end{array}$$
adamc@542	1391
adamc@1123	1392 The only unusual element of this list is the $\mt{blob}$ type, which stands for binary sequences. Simple blobs can be created from strings via $\mt{Basis.textBlob}$. Blobs will also be generated from HTTP file uploads.
adamc@785	1393
adam@1297	1394 Ur also supports \emph{polymorphic variants}, a dual to extensible records that has been popularized by OCaml. A type $\mt{variant} \; r$ represents an $n$-ary sum type, with one constructor for each field of record $r$. Each constructor $c$ takes an argument of type $r.c$; the type $\{\}$ can be used to ``simulate'' a nullary constructor. The \cd{make} function builds a variant value, while \cd{match} implements pattern-matching, with match cases represented as records of functions.
adam@1297	1395 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1297	1396 \mt{con} \; \mt{variant} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1297	1397 \mt{val} \; \mt{make} : \mt{nm} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{ts} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to [[\mt{nm}] \sim \mt{ts}] \Rightarrow \mt{t} \to \mt{variant} \; ([\mt{nm} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{ts}) \\
adam@1297	1398 \mt{val} \; \mt{match} : \mt{ts} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{variant} \; \mt{ts} \to \$(\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{t'} \Rightarrow \mt{t'} \to \mt{t}) \; \mt{ts}) \to \mt{t}
adam@1297	1399 \end{array}$$
adam@1297	1400
adamc@657	1401 Another important generic Ur element comes at the beginning of \texttt{top.urs}.
adamc@657	1402
adamc@657	1403 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@657	1404 \mt{con} \; \mt{folder} :: \mt{K} \longrightarrow \{\mt{K}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@657	1405 \\
adamc@657	1406 \mt{val} \; \mt{fold} : \mt{K} \longrightarrow \mt{tf} :: (\{\mt{K}\} \to \mt{Type}) \\
adamc@657	1407 \hspace{.1in} \to (\mt{nm} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{v} :: \mt{K} \to \mt{r} :: \{\mt{K}\} \to [[\mt{nm}] \sim \mt{r}] \Rightarrow \\
adamc@657	1408 \hspace{.2in} \mt{tf} \; \mt{r} \to \mt{tf} \; ([\mt{nm} = \mt{v}] \rc \mt{r})) \\
adamc@657	1409 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tf} \; [] \\
adamc@657	1410 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{r} :: \{\mt{K}\} \to \mt{folder} \; \mt{r} \to \mt{tf} \; \mt{r}
adamc@657	1411 \end{array}$$
adamc@657	1412
adamc@657	1413 For a type-level record $\mt{r}$, a $\mt{folder} \; \mt{r}$ encodes a permutation of $\mt{r}$'s elements. The $\mt{fold}$ function can be called on a $\mt{folder}$ to iterate over the elements of $\mt{r}$ in that order. $\mt{fold}$ is parameterized on a type-level function to be used to calculate the type of each intermediate result of folding. After processing a subset $\mt{r'}$ of $\mt{r}$'s entries, the type of the accumulator should be $\mt{tf} \; \mt{r'}$. The next two expression arguments to $\mt{fold}$ are the usual step function and initial accumulator, familiar from fold functions over lists. The final two arguments are the record to fold over and a $\mt{folder}$ for it.
adamc@657	1414
adamc@664	1415 The Ur compiler treats $\mt{folder}$ like a constructor class, using built-in rules to infer $\mt{folder}$s for records with known structure. The order in which field names are mentioned in source code is used as a hint about the permutation that the programmer would like.
adamc@657	1416
adamc@542	1417
adamc@542	1418 \section{The Ur/Web Standard Library}
adamc@542	1419
adam@1400	1420 Some operations are only allowed in server-side code or only in client-side code. The type system does not enforce such restrictions, but the compiler enforces them in the process of whole-program compilation. In the discussion below, we note when a set of operations has a location restriction.
adam@1400	1421
adamc@658	1422 \subsection{Monads}
adamc@658	1423
adamc@658	1424 The Ur Basis defines the monad constructor class from Haskell.
adamc@658	1425
adamc@658	1426 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@658	1427 \mt{class} \; \mt{monad} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@658	1428 \mt{val} \; \mt{return} : \mt{m} ::: (\mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}) \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adamc@658	1429 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{monad} \; \mt{m} \\
adamc@658	1430 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@658	1431 \mt{val} \; \mt{bind} : \mt{m} ::: (\mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}) \to \mt{t1} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{t2} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adamc@658	1432 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{monad} \; \mt{m} \\
adamc@658	1433 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t1} \to (\mt{t1} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t2}) \\
adam@1544	1434 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t2} \\
adam@1544	1435 \mt{val} \; \mt{mkMonad} : \mt{m} ::: (\mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}) \\
adam@1544	1436 \hspace{.1in} \to \{\mt{Return} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t}, \\
adam@1544	1437 \hspace{.3in} \mt{Bind} : \mt{t1} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{t2} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t1} \to (\mt{t1} \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t2}) \to \mt{m} \; \mt{t2}\} \\
adam@1544	1438 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{monad} \; \mt{m}
adamc@658	1439 \end{array}$$
adamc@658	1440
adam@1687	1441 The Ur/Web compiler provides syntactic sugar for monads, similar to Haskell's \cd{do} notation. An expression $x \leftarrow e_1; e_2$ is desugared to $\mt{bind} \; e_1 \; (\lambda x \Rightarrow e_2)$, and an expression $e_1; e_2$ is desugared to $\mt{bind} \; e_1 \; (\lambda () \Rightarrow e_2)$. Note a difference from Haskell: as the $e_1; e_2$ case desugaring involves a function with $()$ as its formal argument, the type of $e_1$ must be of the form $m \; \{\}$, rather than some arbitrary $m \; t$.
adam@1548	1442
adamc@542	1443 \subsection{Transactions}
adamc@542	1444
adamc@542	1445 Ur is a pure language; we use Haskell's trick to support controlled side effects. The standard library defines a monad $\mt{transaction}$, meant to stand for actions that may be undone cleanly. By design, no other kinds of actions are supported.
adamc@542	1446 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@542	1447 \mt{con} \; \mt{transaction} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@658	1448 \mt{val} \; \mt{transaction\_monad} : \mt{monad} \; \mt{transaction}
adamc@542	1449 \end{array}$$
adamc@542	1450
adamc@1123	1451 For debugging purposes, a transactional function is provided for outputting a string on the server process' \texttt{stderr}.
adamc@1123	1452 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1123	1453 \mt{val} \; \mt{debug} : \mt{string} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@1123	1454 \end{array}$$
adamc@1123	1455
adamc@542	1456 \subsection{HTTP}
adamc@542	1457
adam@1797	1458 There are transactions for reading an HTTP header by name and for getting and setting strongly typed cookies. Cookies may only be created by the $\mt{cookie}$ declaration form, ensuring that they be named consistently based on module structure. For now, cookie operations are server-side only.
adamc@542	1459 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@786	1460 \mt{con} \; \mt{http\_cookie} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@786	1461 \mt{val} \; \mt{getCookie} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{http\_cookie} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \\
adamc@1050	1462 \mt{val} \; \mt{setCookie} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{http\_cookie} \; \mt{t} \to \{\mt{Value} : \mt{t}, \mt{Expires} : \mt{option} \; \mt{time}, \mt{Secure} : \mt{bool}\} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@1050	1463 \mt{val} \; \mt{clearCookie} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{http\_cookie} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@786	1464 \end{array}$$
adamc@786	1465
adamc@786	1466 There are also an abstract $\mt{url}$ type and functions for converting to it, based on the policy defined by \texttt{[allow\|deny] url} directives in the project file.
adamc@786	1467 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@786	1468 \mt{type} \; \mt{url} \\
adamc@786	1469 \mt{val} \; \mt{bless} : \mt{string} \to \mt{url} \\
adamc@786	1470 \mt{val} \; \mt{checkUrl} : \mt{string} \to \mt{option} \; \mt{url}
adamc@786	1471 \end{array}$$
adamc@786	1472 $\mt{bless}$ raises a runtime error if the string passed to it fails the URL policy.
adamc@786	1473
adam@1400	1474 It is possible to grab the current page's URL or to build a URL for an arbitrary transaction that would also be an acceptable value of a \texttt{link} attribute of the \texttt{a} tag. These are server-side operations.
adamc@1085	1475 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1085	1476 \mt{val} \; \mt{currentUrl} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{url} \\
adamc@1085	1477 \mt{val} \; \mt{url} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{page} \to \mt{url}
adamc@1085	1478 \end{array}$$
adamc@1085	1479
adamc@1085	1480 Page generation may be interrupted at any time with a request to redirect to a particular URL instead.
adamc@1085	1481 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1085	1482 \mt{val} \; \mt{redirect} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{url} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t}
adamc@1085	1483 \end{array}$$
adamc@1085	1484
adam@1400	1485 It's possible for pages to return files of arbitrary MIME types. A file can be input from the user using this data type, along with the $\mt{upload}$ form tag. These functions and those described in the following paragraph are server-side.
adamc@786	1486 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@786	1487 \mt{type} \; \mt{file} \\
adamc@786	1488 \mt{val} \; \mt{fileName} : \mt{file} \to \mt{option} \; \mt{string} \\
adamc@786	1489 \mt{val} \; \mt{fileMimeType} : \mt{file} \to \mt{string} \\
adamc@786	1490 \mt{val} \; \mt{fileData} : \mt{file} \to \mt{blob}
adamc@786	1491 \end{array}$$
adamc@786	1492
adam@1799	1493 It is also possible to get HTTP request headers and environment variables, and set HTTP response headers, using abstract types similar to the one for URLs.
adam@1465	1494
adam@1465	1495 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1465	1496 \mt{type} \; \mt{requestHeader} \\
adam@1465	1497 \mt{val} \; \mt{blessRequestHeader} : \mt{string} \to \mt{requestHeader} \\
adam@1465	1498 \mt{val} \; \mt{checkRequestHeader} : \mt{string} \to \mt{option} \; \mt{requestHeader} \\
adam@1465	1499 \mt{val} \; \mt{getHeader} : \mt{requestHeader} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{string}) \\
adam@1465	1500 \\
adam@1799	1501 \mt{type} \; \mt{envVar} \\
adam@1799	1502 \mt{val} \; \mt{blessEnvVar} : \mt{string} \to \mt{envVar} \\
adam@1799	1503 \mt{val} \; \mt{checkEnvVar} : \mt{string} \to \mt{option} \; \mt{envVar} \\
adam@1799	1504 \mt{val} \; \mt{getenv} : \mt{envVar} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{string}) \\
adam@1799	1505 \\
adam@1465	1506 \mt{type} \; \mt{responseHeader} \\
adam@1465	1507 \mt{val} \; \mt{blessResponseHeader} : \mt{string} \to \mt{responseHeader} \\
adam@1465	1508 \mt{val} \; \mt{checkResponseHeader} : \mt{string} \to \mt{option} \; \mt{responseHeader} \\
adam@1465	1509 \mt{val} \; \mt{setHeader} : \mt{responseHeader} \to \mt{string} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adam@1465	1510 \end{array}$$
adam@1465	1511
adamc@786	1512 A blob can be extracted from a file and returned as the page result. There are bless and check functions for MIME types analogous to those for URLs.
adamc@786	1513 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@786	1514 \mt{type} \; \mt{mimeType} \\
adamc@786	1515 \mt{val} \; \mt{blessMime} : \mt{string} \to \mt{mimeType} \\
adamc@786	1516 \mt{val} \; \mt{checkMime} : \mt{string} \to \mt{option} \; \mt{mimeType} \\
adamc@786	1517 \mt{val} \; \mt{returnBlob} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{blob} \to \mt{mimeType} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t}
adamc@542	1518 \end{array}$$
adamc@542	1519
adamc@543	1520 \subsection{SQL}
adamc@543	1521
adam@1400	1522 Everything about SQL database access is restricted to server-side code.
adam@1400	1523
adamc@543	1524 The fundamental unit of interest in the embedding of SQL is tables, described by a type family and creatable only via the $\mt{table}$ declaration form.
adamc@543	1525 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1526 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_table} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@785	1527 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1528 The first argument to this constructor gives the names and types of a table's columns, and the second argument gives the set of valid keys. Keys are the only subsets of the columns that may be referenced as foreign keys. Each key has a name.
adamc@785	1529
adamc@785	1530 We also have the simpler type family of SQL views, which have no keys.
adamc@785	1531 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1532 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_view} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@543	1533 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1534
adamc@785	1535 A multi-parameter type class is used to allow tables and views to be used interchangeably, with a way of extracting the set of columns from each.
adamc@785	1536 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1537 \mt{class} \; \mt{fieldsOf} :: \mt{Type} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@785	1538 \mt{val} \; \mt{fieldsOf\_table} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{keys} ::: \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \to \mt{fieldsOf} \; (\mt{sql\_table} \; \mt{fs} \; \mt{keys}) \; \mt{fs} \\
adamc@785	1539 \mt{val} \; \mt{fieldsOf\_view} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{fieldsOf} \; (\mt{sql\_view} \; \mt{fs}) \; \mt{fs}
adamc@785	1540 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1541
adamc@785	1542 \subsubsection{Table Constraints}
adamc@785	1543
adamc@785	1544 Tables may be declared with constraints, such that database modifications that violate the constraints are blocked. A table may have at most one \texttt{PRIMARY KEY} constraint, which gives the subset of columns that will most often be used to look up individual rows in the table.
adamc@785	1545
adamc@785	1546 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1547 \mt{con} \; \mt{primary\_key} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@785	1548 \mt{val} \; \mt{no\_primary\_key} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{primary\_key} \; \mt{fs} \; [] \\
adamc@785	1549 \mt{val} \; \mt{primary\_key} : \mt{rest} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{key1} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{keys} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@785	1550 \hspace{.1in} \to [[\mt{key1}] \sim \mt{keys}] \Rightarrow [[\mt{key1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{keys} \sim \mt{rest}] \\
adamc@785	1551 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \$([\mt{key1} = \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{t}] \rc \mt{map} \; \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{keys}) \\
adamc@785	1552 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{primary\_key} \; ([\mt{key1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{keys} \rc \mt{rest}) \; [\mt{Pkey} = [\mt{key1}] \rc \mt{map} \; (\lambda \_ \Rightarrow ()) \; \mt{keys}]
adamc@785	1553 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1554 The type class $\mt{sql\_injectable\_prim}$ characterizes which types are allowed in SQL and are not $\mt{option}$ types. In SQL, a \texttt{PRIMARY KEY} constraint enforces after-the-fact that a column may not contain \texttt{NULL}s, but Ur/Web forces that information to be included in table types from the beginning. Thus, the only effect of this kind of constraint in Ur/Web is to enforce uniqueness of the given key within the table.
adamc@785	1555
adamc@785	1556 A type family stands for sets of named constraints of the remaining varieties.
adamc@785	1557 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1558 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_constraints} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@785	1559 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1560 The first argument gives the column types of the table being constrained, and the second argument maps constraint names to the keys that they define. Constraints that don't define keys are mapped to ``empty keys.''
adamc@785	1561
adamc@785	1562 There is a type family of individual, unnamed constraints.
adamc@785	1563 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1564 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_constraint} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@785	1565 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1566 The first argument is the same as above, and the second argument gives the key columns for just this constraint.
adamc@785	1567
adamc@785	1568 We have operations for assembling constraints into constraint sets.
adamc@785	1569 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1570 \mt{val} \; \mt{no\_constraint} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_constraints} \; \mt{fs} \; [] \\
adamc@785	1571 \mt{val} \; \mt{one\_constraint} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{unique} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{name} :: \mt{Name} \\
adamc@785	1572 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_constraint} \; \mt{fs} \; \mt{unique} \to \mt{sql\_constraints} \; \mt{fs} \; [\mt{name} = \mt{unique}] \\
adamc@785	1573 \mt{val} \; \mt{join\_constraints} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{uniques1} ::: \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \to \mt{uniques2} ::: \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \to [\mt{uniques1} \sim \mt{uniques2}] \\
adamc@785	1574 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{sql\_constraints} \; \mt{fs} \; \mt{uniques1} \to \mt{sql\_constraints} \; \mt{fs} \; \mt{uniques2} \to \mt{sql\_constraints} \; \mt{fs} \; (\mt{uniques1} \rc \mt{uniques2})
adamc@785	1575 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1576
adamc@785	1577 A \texttt{UNIQUE} constraint forces a set of columns to be a key, which means that no combination of column values may occur more than once in the table. The $\mt{unique1}$ and $\mt{unique}$ arguments are separated out only to ensure that empty \texttt{UNIQUE} constraints are rejected.
adamc@785	1578 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1579 \mt{val} \; \mt{unique} : \mt{rest} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{unique1} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{unique} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@785	1580 \hspace{.1in} \to [[\mt{unique1}] \sim \mt{unique}] \Rightarrow [[\mt{unique1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{unique} \sim \mt{rest}] \\
adamc@785	1581 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{sql\_constraint} \; ([\mt{unique1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{unique} \rc \mt{rest}) \; ([\mt{unique1}] \rc \mt{map} \; (\lambda \_ \Rightarrow ()) \; \mt{unique})
adamc@785	1582 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1583
adamc@785	1584 A \texttt{FOREIGN KEY} constraint connects a set of local columns to a local or remote key, enforcing that the local columns always reference an existent row of the foreign key's table. A local column of type $\mt{t}$ may be linked to a foreign column of type $\mt{option} \; \mt{t}$, and vice versa. We formalize that notion with a type class.
adamc@785	1585 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1586 \mt{class} \; \mt{linkable} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@785	1587 \mt{val} \; \mt{linkable\_same} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{linkable} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@785	1588 \mt{val} \; \mt{linkable\_from\_nullable} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{linkable} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@785	1589 \mt{val} \; \mt{linkable\_to\_nullable} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{linkable} \; \mt{t} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t})
adamc@785	1590 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1591
adamc@785	1592 The $\mt{matching}$ type family uses $\mt{linkable}$ to define when two keys match up type-wise.
adamc@785	1593 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1594 \mt{con} \; \mt{matching} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@785	1595 \mt{val} \; \mt{mat\_nil} : \mt{matching} \; [] \; [] \\
adamc@785	1596 \mt{val} \; \mt{mat\_cons} : \mt{t1} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{rest1} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t2} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{rest2} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{nm1} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{nm2} :: \mt{Name} \\
adamc@785	1597 \hspace{.1in} \to [[\mt{nm1}] \sim \mt{rest1}] \Rightarrow [[\mt{nm2}] \sim \mt{rest2}] \Rightarrow \mt{linkable} \; \mt{t1} \; \mt{t2} \to \mt{matching} \; \mt{rest1} \; \mt{rest2} \\
adamc@785	1598 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{matching} \; ([\mt{nm1} = \mt{t1}] \rc \mt{rest1}) \; ([\mt{nm2} = \mt{t2}] \rc \mt{rest2})
adamc@785	1599 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1600
adamc@785	1601 SQL provides a number of different propagation modes for \texttt{FOREIGN KEY} constraints, governing what happens when a row containing a still-referenced foreign key value is deleted or modified to have a different key value. The argument of a propagation mode's type gives the local key type.
adamc@785	1602 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1603 \mt{con} \; \mt{propagation\_mode} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@785	1604 \mt{val} \; \mt{restrict} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{propagation\_mode} \; \mt{fs} \\
adamc@785	1605 \mt{val} \; \mt{cascade} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{propagation\_mode} \; \mt{fs} \\
adamc@785	1606 \mt{val} \; \mt{no\_action} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{propagation\_mode} \; \mt{fs} \\
adamc@785	1607 \mt{val} \; \mt{set\_null} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{propagation\_mode} \; (\mt{map} \; \mt{option} \; \mt{fs})
adamc@785	1608 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1609
adamc@785	1610 Finally, we put these ingredient together to define the \texttt{FOREIGN KEY} constraint function.
adamc@785	1611 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@785	1612 \mt{val} \; \mt{foreign\_key} : \mt{mine1} ::: \mt{Name} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{mine} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{munused} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{foreign} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@785	1613 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{funused} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{nm} ::: \mt{Name} \to \mt{uniques} ::: \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\} \\
adamc@785	1614 \hspace{.1in} \to [[\mt{mine1}] \sim \mt{mine}] \Rightarrow [[\mt{mine1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{mine} \sim \mt{munused}] \Rightarrow [\mt{foreign} \sim \mt{funused}] \Rightarrow [[\mt{nm}] \sim \mt{uniques}] \\
adamc@785	1615 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{matching} \; ([\mt{mine1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{mine}) \; \mt{foreign} \\
adamc@785	1616 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_table} \; (\mt{foreign} \rc \mt{funused}) \; ([\mt{nm} = \mt{map} \; (\lambda \_ \Rightarrow ()) \; \mt{foreign}] \rc \mt{uniques}) \\
adamc@785	1617 \hspace{.1in} \to \{\mt{OnDelete} : \mt{propagation\_mode} \; ([\mt{mine1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{mine}), \\
adamc@785	1618 \hspace{.2in} \mt{OnUpdate} : \mt{propagation\_mode} \; ([\mt{mine1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{mine})\} \\
adamc@785	1619 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_constraint} \; ([\mt{mine1} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{mine} \rc \mt{munused}) \; []
adamc@785	1620 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1621
adamc@785	1622 The last kind of constraint is a \texttt{CHECK} constraint, which attaches a boolean invariant over a row's contents. It is defined using the $\mt{sql\_exp}$ type family, which we discuss in more detail below.
adamc@785	1623 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1624 \mt{val} \; \mt{check} : \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; [] \; [] \; \mt{fs} \; \mt{bool} \to \mt{sql\_constraint} \; \mt{fs} \; []
adamc@785	1625 \end{array}$$
adamc@785	1626
adamc@785	1627 Section \ref{tables} shows the expanded syntax of the $\mt{table}$ declaration and signature item that includes constraints. There is no other way to use constraints with SQL in Ur/Web.
adamc@785	1628
adamc@784	1629
adamc@543	1630 \subsubsection{Queries}
adamc@543	1631
adam@1400	1632 A final query is constructed via the $\mt{sql\_query}$ function. Constructor arguments respectively specify the unrestricted free table variables (which will only be available in subqueries), the free table variables that may only be mentioned within arguments to aggregate functions, table fields we select (as records mapping tables to the subsets of their fields that we choose), and the (always named) extra expressions that we select.
adamc@543	1633 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1400	1634 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_query} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@1193	1635 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_query} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adam@1400	1636 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{afree} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@1193	1637 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1638 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{selectedFields} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1639 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{selectedExps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@1193	1640 \hspace{.1in} \to [\mt{free} \sim \mt{tables}] \\
adam@1400	1641 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \{\mt{Rows} : \mt{sql\_query1} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{afree} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedExps}, \\
adamc@1193	1642 \hspace{.2in} \mt{OrderBy} : \mt{sql\_order\_by} \; (\mt{free} \rc \mt{tables}) \; \mt{selectedExps}, \\
adamc@543	1643 \hspace{.2in} \mt{Limit} : \mt{sql\_limit}, \\
adamc@543	1644 \hspace{.2in} \mt{Offset} : \mt{sql\_offset}\} \\
adam@1400	1645 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_query} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{afree} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedExps}
adamc@543	1646 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1647
adamc@545	1648 Queries are used by folding over their results inside transactions.
adamc@545	1649 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1400	1650 \mt{val} \; \mt{query} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to [\mt{tables} \sim \mt{exps}] \Rightarrow \mt{state} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_query} \; [] \; [] \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{exps} \\
adamc@658	1651 \hspace{.1in} \to (\$(\mt{exps} \rc \mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{fields} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \Rightarrow \$\mt{fields}) \; \mt{tables}) \\
adamc@545	1652 \hspace{.2in} \to \mt{state} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{state}) \\
adamc@545	1653 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{state} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{state}
adamc@545	1654 \end{array}$$
adamc@545	1655
adam@1400	1656 Most of the complexity of the query encoding is in the type $\mt{sql\_query1}$, which includes simple queries and derived queries based on relational operators. Constructor arguments respectively specify the unrestricted free table veriables, the aggregate-only free table variables, the tables we select from, the subset of fields that we keep from each table for the result rows, and the extra expressions that we select.
adamc@543	1657 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1400	1658 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_query1} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@543	1659 \\
adamc@543	1660 \mt{type} \; \mt{sql\_relop} \\
adamc@543	1661 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_union} : \mt{sql\_relop} \\
adamc@543	1662 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_intersect} : \mt{sql\_relop} \\
adamc@543	1663 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_except} : \mt{sql\_relop} \\
adam@1400	1664 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_relop} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adam@1400	1665 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{afree} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adam@1400	1666 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tables1} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1667 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tables2} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1668 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{selectedFields} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1669 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{selectedExps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@543	1670 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_relop} \\
adam@1458	1671 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{bool} \; (* \; \mt{ALL} \; *) \\
adam@1400	1672 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_query1} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{afree} \; \mt{tables1} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedExps} \\
adam@1400	1673 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_query1} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{afree} \; \mt{tables2} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedExps} \\
adam@1400	1674 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_query1} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{afree} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedExps}
adamc@543	1675 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1676
adamc@543	1677 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1193	1678 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_query1} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adam@1400	1679 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{afree} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@1193	1680 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1681 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{grouped} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1682 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{selectedFields} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1683 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{selectedExps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@1085	1684 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{empties} :: \{\mt{Unit}\} \\
adamc@1193	1685 \hspace{.1in} \to [\mt{free} \sim \mt{tables}] \\
adamc@1193	1686 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow [\mt{free} \sim \mt{grouped}] \\
adam@1400	1687 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow [\mt{afree} \sim \mt{tables}] \\
adamc@1193	1688 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow [\mt{empties} \sim \mt{selectedFields}] \\
adamc@1085	1689 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \{\mt{Distinct} : \mt{bool}, \\
adamc@1193	1690 \hspace{.2in} \mt{From} : \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{tables}, \\
adam@1778	1691 \hspace{.2in} \mt{Where} : \mt{sql\_exp} \; (\mt{free} \rc \mt{tables}) \; \mt{afree} \; [] \; \mt{bool}, \\
adamc@543	1692 \hspace{.2in} \mt{GroupBy} : \mt{sql\_subset} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{grouped}, \\
adam@1778	1693 \hspace{.2in} \mt{Having} : \mt{sql\_exp} \; (\mt{free} \rc \mt{grouped}) \; (\mt{afree} \rc \mt{tables}) \; [] \; \mt{bool}, \\
adamc@1085	1694 \hspace{.2in} \mt{SelectFields} : \mt{sql\_subset} \; \mt{grouped} \; (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \_ \Rightarrow []) \; \mt{empties} \rc \mt{selectedFields}), \\
adam@1778	1695 \hspace{.2in} \mt {SelectExps} : \$(\mt{map} \; (\mt{sql\_expw} \; (\mt{free} \rc \mt{grouped}) \; (\mt{afree} \rc \mt{tables}) \; []) \; \mt{selectedExps}) \} \\
adam@1400	1696 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_query1} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{afree} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{selectedFields} \; \mt{selectedExps}
adamc@543	1697 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1698
adamc@543	1699 To encode projection of subsets of fields in $\mt{SELECT}$ clauses, and to encode $\mt{GROUP} \; \mt{BY}$ clauses, we rely on a type family $\mt{sql\_subset}$, capturing what it means for one record of table fields to be a subset of another. The main constructor $\mt{sql\_subset}$ ``proves subset facts'' by requiring a split of a record into kept and dropped parts. The extra constructor $\mt{sql\_subset\_all}$ is a convenience for keeping all fields of a record.
adamc@543	1700 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@543	1701 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_subset} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@543	1702 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_subset} : \mt{keep\_drop} :: \{(\{\mt{Type}\} \times \{\mt{Type}\})\} \\
adamc@543	1703 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_subset} \\
adamc@658	1704 \hspace{.2in} (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{fields} :: (\{\mt{Type}\} \times \{\mt{Type}\}) \Rightarrow \mt{fields}.1 \rc \mt{fields}.2)\; \mt{keep\_drop}) \\
adamc@658	1705 \hspace{.2in} (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{fields} :: (\{\mt{Type}\} \times \{\mt{Type}\}) \Rightarrow \mt{fields}.1) \; \mt{keep\_drop}) \\
adamc@543	1706 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_subset\_all} : \mt{tables} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{sql\_subset} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{tables}
adamc@543	1707 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1708
adam@1778	1709 SQL expressions are used in several places, including $\mt{SELECT}$, $\mt{WHERE}$, $\mt{HAVING}$, and $\mt{ORDER} \; \mt{BY}$ clauses. They reify a fragment of the standard SQL expression language, while making it possible to inject ``native'' Ur values in some places. The arguments to the $\mt{sql\_exp}$ type family respectively give the unrestricted-availability table fields, the table fields that may only be used in arguments to aggregate functions, the available selected expressions, and the type of the expression.
adamc@543	1710 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1711 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_exp} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@543	1712 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1713
adamc@543	1714 Any field in scope may be converted to an expression.
adamc@543	1715 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@543	1716 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_field} : \mt{otherTabs} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{otherFields} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1717 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{fieldType} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@543	1718 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adamc@543	1719 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tab} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{field} :: \mt{Name} \\
adam@1778	1720 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; ([\mt{tab} = [\mt{field} = \mt{fieldType}] \rc \mt{otherFields}] \rc \mt{otherTabs}) \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{fieldType}
adamc@543	1721 \end{array}$$
adamc@543	1722
adamc@544	1723 There is an analogous function for referencing named expressions.
adamc@544	1724 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1725 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_exp} : \mt{tabs} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{rest} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{nm} :: \mt{Name} \\
adam@1778	1726 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tabs} \; \mt{agg} \; ([\mt{nm} = \mt{t}] \rc \mt{rest}) \; \mt{t}
adamc@544	1727 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1728
adamc@544	1729 Ur values of appropriate types may be injected into SQL expressions.
adamc@544	1730 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@786	1731 \mt{class} \; \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \\
adamc@786	1732 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_bool} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{bool} \\
adamc@786	1733 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_int} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{int} \\
adamc@786	1734 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_float} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{float} \\
adamc@786	1735 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_string} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{string} \\
adamc@786	1736 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_time} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{time} \\
adamc@786	1737 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_blob} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{blob} \\
adamc@786	1738 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_channel} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; (\mt{channel} \; \mt{t}) \\
adamc@786	1739 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_client} : \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{client} \\
adamc@786	1740 \\
adamc@544	1741 \mt{class} \; \mt{sql\_injectable} \\
adamc@786	1742 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_prim} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_injectable} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@786	1743 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_option\_prim} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_injectable} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \\
adamc@786	1744 \\
adam@1778	1745 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_inject} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_injectable} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1746 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t}
adamc@544	1747 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1748
adamc@1123	1749 Additionally, most function-free types may be injected safely, via the $\mt{serialized}$ type family.
adamc@1123	1750 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1123	1751 \mt{con} \; \mt{serialized} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@1123	1752 \mt{val} \; \mt{serialize} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{serialized} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@1123	1753 \mt{val} \; \mt{deserialize} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{serialized} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{t} \\
adamc@1123	1754 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_serialized} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; (\mt{serialized} \; \mt{t})
adamc@1123	1755 \end{array}$$
adamc@1123	1756
adamc@544	1757 We have the SQL nullness test, which is necessary because of the strange SQL semantics of equality in the presence of null values.
adamc@544	1758 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1759 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_is\_null} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1760 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{bool}
adamc@544	1761 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1762
adam@1602	1763 As another way of dealing with null values, there is also a restricted form of the standard \cd{COALESCE} function.
adam@1602	1764 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1602	1765 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_coalesce} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1766 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1767 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \\
adam@1778	1768 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1769 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t}
adam@1602	1770 \end{array}$$
adam@1602	1771
adamc@559	1772 We have generic nullary, unary, and binary operators.
adamc@544	1773 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@544	1774 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_nfunc} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@544	1775 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_current\_timestamp} : \mt{sql\_nfunc} \; \mt{time} \\
adam@1778	1776 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_nfunc} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1777 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_nfunc} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\\end{array}$$
adamc@544	1778
adamc@544	1779 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@544	1780 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_unary} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@544	1781 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_not} : \mt{sql\_unary} \; \mt{bool} \; \mt{bool} \\
adam@1778	1782 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_unary} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{arg} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{res} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1783 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_unary} \; \mt{arg} \; \mt{res} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{arg} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{res} \\
adamc@544	1784 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1785
adamc@544	1786 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@544	1787 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_binary} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@544	1788 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_and} : \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{bool} \; \mt{bool} \; \mt{bool} \\
adamc@544	1789 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_or} : \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{bool} \; \mt{bool} \; \mt{bool} \\
adam@1778	1790 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_binary} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{arg_1} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{arg_2} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{res} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1791 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{arg_1} \; \mt{arg_2} \; \mt{res} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{arg_1} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{arg_2} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{res}
adamc@544	1792 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1793
adamc@544	1794 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@559	1795 \mt{class} \; \mt{sql\_arith} \\
adamc@559	1796 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_int\_arith} : \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{int} \\
adamc@559	1797 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_float\_arith} : \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{float} \\
adamc@559	1798 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_neg} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_unary} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@559	1799 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_plus} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@559	1800 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_minus} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@559	1801 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_times} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@559	1802 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_div} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_arith} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{t} \\
adamc@559	1803 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_mod} : \mt{sql\_binary} \; \mt{int} \; \mt{int} \; \mt{int}
adamc@559	1804 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1805
adam@1797	1806 Finally, we have aggregate functions. The $\mt{COUNT(\ast)}$ syntax is handled specially, since it takes no real argument. The other aggregate functions are placed into a general type family, using constructor classes to restrict usage to properly typed arguments. The key aspect of the $\mt{sql\_aggregate}$ function's type is the shift of aggregate-function-only fields into unrestricted fields.
adamc@544	1807 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1808 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_count} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{int}
adamc@544	1809 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1810
adamc@544	1811 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1188	1812 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_aggregate} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1813 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_aggregate} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{dom} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{ran} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1814 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; \mt{dom} \; \mt{ran} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{dom} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{ran}
adamc@1188	1815 \end{array}$$
adamc@1188	1816
adamc@1188	1817 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1188	1818 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_count\_col} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \; \mt{int}
adamc@544	1819 \end{array}$$
adam@1400	1820
adam@1400	1821 Most aggregate functions are typed using a two-parameter constructor class $\mt{nullify}$ which maps $\mt{option}$ types to themselves and adds $\mt{option}$ to others. That is, this constructor class represents the process of making an SQL type ``nullable.''
adamc@544	1822
adamc@544	1823 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@544	1824 \mt{class} \; \mt{sql\_summable} \\
adamc@544	1825 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_summable\_int} : \mt{sql\_summable} \; \mt{int} \\
adamc@544	1826 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_summable\_float} : \mt{sql\_summable} \; \mt{float} \\
adam@1777	1827 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_avg} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_summable} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; \mt{t} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{float}) \\
adam@1400	1828 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_sum} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{nt} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_summable} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{nullify} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt}
adamc@544	1829 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1830
adamc@544	1831 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@544	1832 \mt{class} \; \mt{sql\_maxable} \\
adamc@544	1833 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_maxable\_int} : \mt{sql\_maxable} \; \mt{int} \\
adamc@544	1834 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_maxable\_float} : \mt{sql\_maxable} \; \mt{float} \\
adamc@544	1835 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_maxable\_string} : \mt{sql\_maxable} \; \mt{string} \\
adamc@544	1836 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_maxable\_time} : \mt{sql\_maxable} \; \mt{time} \\
adam@1400	1837 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_max} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{nt} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_maxable} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{nullify} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt} \\
adam@1400	1838 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_min} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{nt} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_maxable} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{nullify} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt}
adamc@544	1839 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1840
adam@1778	1841 Any SQL query that returns single columns may be turned into a subquery expression.
adam@1777	1842
adam@1777	1843 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1844 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_subquery} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{nm} ::: \mt{Name} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{nt} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1845 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{nullify} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt} \to \mt{sql\_query} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; [\mt{nm} = \mt{t}] \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{nt}
adamc@1193	1846 \end{array}$$
adamc@1193	1847
adam@1573	1848 There is also an \cd{IF..THEN..ELSE..} construct that is compiled into standard SQL \cd{CASE} expressions.
adam@1573	1849 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1850 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_if\_then\_else} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1851 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{bool} \\
adam@1778	1852 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1853 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1854 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t}
adam@1573	1855 \end{array}$$
adam@1573	1856
adamc@1193	1857 \texttt{FROM} clauses are specified using a type family, whose arguments are the free table variables and the table variables bound by this clause.
adamc@1193	1858 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1193	1859 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_from\_items} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@1193	1860 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_from\_table} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@1193	1861 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{fieldsOf} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{fs} \to \mt{name} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; [\mt{name} = \mt{fs}] \\
adamc@1193	1862 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_from\_query} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{fs} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{name} :: \mt{Name} \to \mt{sql\_query} \; \mt{free} \; [] \; \mt{fs} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; [\mt{name} = \mt{fs}] \\
adamc@1193	1863 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_from\_comma} : \mt{free} ::: \mt{tabs1} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{tabs2} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to [\mt{tabs1} \sim \mt{tabs2}] \\
adamc@1193	1864 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{tabs1} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{tabs2} \\
adamc@1193	1865 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; (\mt{tabs1} \rc \mt{tabs2}) \\
adamc@1193	1866 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_inner\_join} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{tabs1} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{tabs2} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \\
adamc@1193	1867 \hspace{.1in} \to [\mt{free} \sim \mt{tabs1}] \Rightarrow [\mt{free} \sim \mt{tabs2}] \Rightarrow [\mt{tabs1} \sim \mt{tabs2}] \\
adamc@1193	1868 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{tabs1} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{tabs2} \\
adam@1778	1869 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; (\mt{free} \rc \mt{tabs1} \rc \mt{tabs2}) \; [] \; [] \; \mt{bool} \\
adamc@1193	1870 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; (\mt{tabs1} \rc \mt{tabs2})
adamc@786	1871 \end{array}$$
adamc@786	1872
adamc@786	1873 Besides these basic cases, outer joins are supported, which requires a type class for turning non-$\mt{option}$ columns into $\mt{option}$ columns.
adamc@786	1874 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@786	1875 \mt{class} \; \mt{nullify} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@786	1876 \mt{val} \; \mt{nullify\_option} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{nullify} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t}) \\
adamc@786	1877 \mt{val} \; \mt{nullify\_prim} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{sql\_injectable\_prim} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{nullify} \; \mt{t} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t})
adamc@786	1878 \end{array}$$
adamc@786	1879
adamc@786	1880 Left, right, and full outer joins can now be expressed using functions that accept records of $\mt{nullify}$ instances. Here, we give only the type for a left join as an example.
adamc@786	1881
adamc@786	1882 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@1193	1883 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_left\_join} : \mt{free} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{tabs1} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{tabs2} ::: \{\{(\mt{Type} \times \mt{Type})\}\} \\
adamc@1193	1884 \hspace{.1in} \to [\mt{free} \sim \mt{tabs1}] \Rightarrow [\mt{free} \sim \mt{tabs2}] \Rightarrow [\mt{tabs1} \sim \mt{tabs2}] \\
adamc@786	1885 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \$(\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{r} \Rightarrow \$(\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{p} :: (\mt{Type} \times \mt{Type}) \Rightarrow \mt{nullify} \; \mt{p}.1 \; \mt{p}.2) \; \mt{r})) \; \mt{tabs2}) \\
adamc@1193	1886 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; \mt{tabs1} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; (\mt{map} \; (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{p} :: (\mt{Type} \times \mt{Type}) \Rightarrow \mt{p}.1)) \; \mt{tabs2}) \\
adam@1778	1887 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; (\mt{free} \rc \mt{tabs1} \rc \mt{map} \; (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{p} :: (\mt{Type} \times \mt{Type}) \Rightarrow \mt{p}.1)) \; \mt{tabs2}) \; [] \; [] \; \mt{bool} \\
adamc@1193	1888 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_from\_items} \; \mt{free} \; (\mt{tabs1} \rc \mt{map} \; (\mt{map} \; (\lambda \mt{p} :: (\mt{Type} \times \mt{Type}) \Rightarrow \mt{p}.2)) \; \mt{tabs2})
adamc@786	1889 \end{array}$$
adamc@786	1890
adamc@544	1891 We wrap up the definition of query syntax with the types used in representing $\mt{ORDER} \; \mt{BY}$, $\mt{LIMIT}$, and $\mt{OFFSET}$ clauses.
adamc@544	1892 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@544	1893 \mt{type} \; \mt{sql\_direction} \\
adamc@544	1894 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_asc} : \mt{sql\_direction} \\
adamc@544	1895 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_desc} : \mt{sql\_direction} \\
adamc@544	1896 \\
adamc@544	1897 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_order\_by} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@544	1898 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_order\_by\_Nil} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_order\_by} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{exps} \\
adam@1778	1899 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_order\_by\_Cons} : \mt{tf} ::: (\{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}) \\
adam@1778	1900 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1901 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_window} \; \mt{tf} \to \mt{tf} \; \mt{tables} \; [] \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{sql\_direction} \to \mt{sql\_order\_by} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{exps} \to \mt{sql\_order\_by} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{exps} \\
adam@1684	1902 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_order\_by\_random} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_order\_by} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{exps} \\
adamc@544	1903 \\
adamc@544	1904 \mt{type} \; \mt{sql\_limit} \\
adamc@544	1905 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_no\_limit} : \mt{sql\_limit} \\
adamc@544	1906 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_limit} : \mt{int} \to \mt{sql\_limit} \\
adamc@544	1907 \\
adamc@544	1908 \mt{type} \; \mt{sql\_offset} \\
adamc@544	1909 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_no\_offset} : \mt{sql\_offset} \\
adamc@544	1910 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_offset} : \mt{int} \to \mt{sql\_offset}
adamc@544	1911 \end{array}$$
adamc@544	1912
adam@1778	1913 When using Postgres, \cd{SELECT} and \cd{ORDER BY} are allowed to contain top-level uses of \emph{window functions}. A separate type family \cd{sql\_expw} is provided for such cases, with some type class convenience for overloading between normal and window expressions.
adam@1778	1914 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1915 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_expw} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1916 \\
adam@1778	1917 \mt{class} \; \mt{sql\_window} :: (\{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}) \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1918 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_window\_normal} : \mt{sql\_window} \; \mt{sql\_exp} \\
adam@1778	1919 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_window\_fancy} : \mt{sql\_window} \; \mt{sql\_expw} \\
adam@1778	1920 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_window} : \mt{tf} ::: (\{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type}) \\
adam@1778	1921 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1922 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_window} \; \mt{tf} \\
adam@1778	1923 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tf} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1924 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_expw} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1925 \\
adam@1778	1926 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_partition} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1927 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_no\_partition} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1928 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_partition} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \\
adam@1778	1929 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_partition} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1930 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1931 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_partition} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \\
adam@1778	1932 \\
adam@1778	1933 \mt{con} \; \mt{sql\_window\_function} :: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1934 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_window\_function} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1935 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1936 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_window\_function} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1937 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_partition} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \\
adam@1778	1938 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_order\_by} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{exps} \\
adam@1778	1939 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_expw} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1940 \\
adam@1778	1941 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_window\_aggregate} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1942 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{nt} ::: \mt{Type} \\
adam@1778	1943 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_aggregate} \; \mt{t} \; \mt{nt} \\
adam@1778	1944 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1778	1945 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_window\_function} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{nt} \\
adam@1778	1946 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_window\_count} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1947 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_window\_function} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{int} \\
adam@1778	1948 \mt{val} \; \mt{sql\_rank} : \mt{tables} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{agg} ::: \{\{\mt{Type}\}\} \to \mt{exps} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1778	1949 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_window\_function} \; \mt{tables} \; \mt{agg} \; \mt{exps} \; \mt{int}
adam@1778	1950 \end{array}$$
adam@1778	1951
adamc@545	1952
adamc@545	1953 \subsubsection{DML}
adamc@545	1954
adamc@545	1955 The Ur/Web library also includes an embedding of a fragment of SQL's DML, the Data Manipulation Language, for modifying database tables. Any piece of DML may be executed in a transaction.
adamc@545	1956
adamc@545	1957 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@545	1958 \mt{type} \; \mt{dml} \\
adamc@545	1959 \mt{val} \; \mt{dml} : \mt{dml} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@545	1960 \end{array}$$
adamc@545	1961
adam@1297	1962 The function $\mt{Basis.dml}$ will trigger a fatal application error if the command fails, for instance, because a data integrity constraint is violated. An alternate function returns an error message as a string instead.
adam@1297	1963
adam@1297	1964 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1297	1965 \mt{val} \; \mt{tryDml} : \mt{dml} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{string})
adam@1297	1966 \end{array}$$
adam@1297	1967
adam@1797	1968 Properly typed records may be used to form $\mt{INSERT}$ commands.
adamc@545	1969 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@545	1970 \mt{val} \; \mt{insert} : \mt{fields} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_table} \; \mt{fields} \\
adam@1778	1971 \hspace{.1in} \to \$(\mt{map} \; (\mt{sql\_exp} \; [] \; [] \; []) \; \mt{fields}) \to \mt{dml}
adamc@545	1972 \end{array}$$
adamc@545	1973
adam@1578	1974 An $\mt{UPDATE}$ command is formed from a choice of which table fields to leave alone and which to change, along with an expression to use to compute the new value of each changed field and a $\mt{WHERE}$ clause. Note that, in the table environment applied to expressions, the table being updated is hardcoded at the name $\mt{T}$. The parsing extension for $\mt{UPDATE}$ will elaborate all table-free field references to use table variable $\mt{T}$.
adamc@545	1975 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1380	1976 \mt{val} \; \mt{update} : \mt{unchanged} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{changed} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to [\mt{changed} \sim \mt{unchanged}] \\
adam@1778	1977 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \$(\mt{map} \; (\mt{sql\_exp} \; [\mt{T} = \mt{changed} \rc \mt{unchanged}] \; [] \; []) \; \mt{changed}) \\
adam@1778	1978 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{sql\_table} \; (\mt{changed} \rc \mt{unchanged}) \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; [\mt{T} = \mt{changed} \rc \mt{unchanged}] \; [] \; [] \; \mt{bool} \to \mt{dml}
adamc@545	1979 \end{array}$$
adamc@545	1980
adam@1578	1981 A $\mt{DELETE}$ command is formed from a table and a $\mt{WHERE}$ clause. The above use of $\mt{T}$ is repeated.
adamc@545	1982 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1778	1983 \mt{val} \; \mt{delete} : \mt{fields} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{sql\_table} \; \mt{fields} \to \mt{sql\_exp} \; [\mt{T} = \mt{fields}] \; [] \; [] \; \mt{bool} \to \mt{dml}
adamc@545	1984 \end{array}$$
adamc@545	1985
adamc@546	1986 \subsubsection{Sequences}
adamc@546	1987
adamc@546	1988 SQL sequences are counters with concurrency control, often used to assign unique IDs. Ur/Web supports them via a simple interface. The only way to create a sequence is with the $\mt{sequence}$ declaration form.
adamc@546	1989
adamc@546	1990 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@546	1991 \mt{type} \; \mt{sql\_sequence} \\
adamc@1085	1992 \mt{val} \; \mt{nextval} : \mt{sql\_sequence} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{int} \\
adamc@1085	1993 \mt{val} \; \mt{setval} : \mt{sql\_sequence} \to \mt{int} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@546	1994 \end{array}$$
adamc@546	1995
adamc@546	1996
adam@1648	1997 \subsection{\label{xml}XML}
adamc@547	1998
adam@1333	1999 Ur/Web's library contains an encoding of XML syntax and semantic constraints. We make no effort to follow the standards governing XML schemas. Rather, XML fragments are viewed more as values of ML datatypes, and we only track which tags are allowed inside which other tags. The Ur/Web standard library encodes a very loose version of XHTML, where it is very easy to produce documents which are invalid XHTML, but which still display properly in all major browsers. The main purposes of the invariants that are enforced are first, to provide some documentation about the places where it would make sense to insert XML fragments; and second, to rule out code injection attacks and other abstraction violations related to HTML syntax.
adamc@547	2000
adam@1642	2001 The basic XML type family has arguments respectively indicating the \emph{context} of a fragment, the fields that the fragment expects to be bound on entry (and their types), and the fields that the fragment will bind (and their types). Contexts are a record-based ``poor man's subtyping'' encoding, with each possible set of valid tags corresponding to a different context record. For instance, the context for the \texttt{<td>} tag is $[\mt{Dyn}, \mt{MakeForm}, \mt{Tr}]$, to indicate nesting inside a \texttt{<tr>} tag with the ability to nest \texttt{<form>} and \texttt{<dyn>} tags (see below). Contexts are maintained in a somewhat ad-hoc way; the only definitive reference for their meanings is the types of the tag values in \texttt{basis.urs}. The arguments dealing with field binding are only relevant to HTML forms.
adamc@547	2002 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@547	2003 \mt{con} \; \mt{xml} :: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@547	2004 \end{array}$$
adamc@547	2005
adamc@547	2006 We also have a type family of XML tags, indexed respectively by the record of optional attributes accepted by the tag, the context in which the tag may be placed, the context required of children of the tag, which form fields the tag uses, and which fields the tag defines.
adamc@547	2007 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@547	2008 \mt{con} \; \mt{tag} :: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{Type}
adamc@547	2009 \end{array}$$
adamc@547	2010
adamc@547	2011 Literal text may be injected into XML as ``CDATA.''
adamc@547	2012 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@547	2013 \mt{val} \; \mt{cdata} : \mt{ctx} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{use} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{string} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; \mt{use} \; []
adamc@547	2014 \end{array}$$
adamc@547	2015
adam@1358	2016 There is also a function to insert the literal value of a character. Since Ur/Web uses the UTF-8 text encoding, the $\mt{cdata}$ function is only sufficient to encode characters with ASCII codes below 128. Higher codes have alternate meanings in UTF-8 than in usual ASCII, so this alternate function should be used with them.
adam@1358	2017 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1358	2018 \mt{val} \; \mt{cdataChar} : \mt{ctx} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{use} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{char} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; \mt{use} \; []
adam@1358	2019 \end{array}$$
adam@1358	2020
adamc@547	2021 There is a function for producing an XML tree with a particular tag at its root.
adamc@547	2022 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@547	2023 \mt{val} \; \mt{tag} : \mt{attrsGiven} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{attrsAbsent} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{ctxOuter} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{ctxInner} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \\
adamc@547	2024 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{useOuter} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{useInner} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{bindOuter} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{bindInner} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1380	2025 \hspace{.1in} \to [\mt{attrsGiven} \sim \mt{attrsAbsent}] \Rightarrow [\mt{useOuter} \sim \mt{useInner}] \Rightarrow [\mt{bindOuter} \sim \mt{bindInner}] \\
adam@1749	2026 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{css\_class} \\
adam@1643	2027 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{option} \; (\mt{signal} \; \mt{css\_class}) \\
adam@1750	2028 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{css\_style} \\
adam@1751	2029 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{option} \; (\mt{signal} \; \mt{css\_style}) \\
adamc@787	2030 \hspace{.1in} \to \$\mt{attrsGiven} \\
adamc@547	2031 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tag} \; (\mt{attrsGiven} \rc \mt{attrsAbsent}) \; \mt{ctxOuter} \; \mt{ctxInner} \; \mt{useOuter} \; \mt{bindOuter} \\
adamc@547	2032 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctxInner} \; \mt{useInner} \; \mt{bindInner} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctxOuter} \; (\mt{useOuter} \rc \mt{useInner}) \; (\mt{bindOuter} \rc \mt{bindInner})
adamc@547	2033 \end{array}$$
adam@1750	2034 Note that any tag may be assigned a CSS class, or left without a class by passing $\mt{Basis.null}$ as the first value-level argument. This is the sole way of making use of the values produced by $\mt{style}$ declarations. The function $\mt{Basis.classes}$ can be used to specify a list of CSS classes for a single tag. Stylesheets to assign properties to the classes can be linked via URL's with \texttt{link} tags. Ur/Web makes it easy to calculate upper bounds on usage of CSS classes through program analysis, with the \cd{-css} command-line flag.
adamc@547	2035
adam@1643	2036 Also note that two different arguments are available for setting CSS classes: the first, associated with the \texttt{class} pseudo-attribute syntactic sugar, fixes the class of a tag for the duration of the tag's life; while the second, associated with the \texttt{dynClass} pseudo-attribute, allows the class to vary over the tag's life. See Section \ref{signals} for an introduction to the $\mt{signal}$ type family.
adam@1643	2037
adam@1751	2038 The third and fourth value-level arguments makes it possible to generate HTML \cd{style} attributes, either with fixed content (\cd{style} attribute) or dynamic content (\cd{dynStyle} pseudo-attribute).
adam@1750	2039
adamc@547	2040 Two XML fragments may be concatenated.
adamc@547	2041 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@547	2042 \mt{val} \; \mt{join} : \mt{ctx} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{use_1} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{bind_1} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{bind_2} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \\
adam@1380	2043 \hspace{.1in} \to [\mt{use_1} \sim \mt{bind_1}] \Rightarrow [\mt{bind_1} \sim \mt{bind_2}] \\
adamc@547	2044 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; \mt{use_1} \; \mt{bind_1} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; (\mt{use_1} \rc \mt{bind_1}) \; \mt{bind_2} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; \mt{use_1} \; (\mt{bind_1} \rc \mt{bind_2})
adamc@547	2045 \end{array}$$
adamc@547	2046
adamc@547	2047 Finally, any XML fragment may be updated to ``claim'' to use more form fields than it does.
adamc@547	2048 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1380	2049 \mt{val} \; \mt{useMore} : \mt{ctx} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{use_1} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{use_2} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{bind} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to [\mt{use_1} \sim \mt{use_2}] \\
adamc@547	2050 \hspace{.1in} \Rightarrow \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; \mt{use_1} \; \mt{bind} \to \mt{xml} \; \mt{ctx} \; (\mt{use_1} \rc \mt{use_2}) \; \mt{bind}
adamc@547	2051 \end{array}$$
adamc@547	2052
adam@1344	2053 We will not list here the different HTML tags and related functions from the standard library. They should be easy enough to understand from the code in \texttt{basis.urs}. The set of tags in the library is not yet claimed to be complete for HTML standards. Also note that there is currently no way for the programmer to add his own tags. It \emph{is} possible to add new tags directly to \texttt{basis.urs}, but this should only be done as a prelude to suggesting a patch to the main distribution.
adamc@547	2054
adamc@547	2055 One last useful function is for aborting any page generation, returning some XML as an error message. This function takes the place of some uses of a general exception mechanism.
adamc@547	2056 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1641	2057 \mt{val} \; \mt{error} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{xbody} \to \mt{t}
adamc@547	2058 \end{array}$$
adamc@547	2059
adamc@549	2060
adamc@701	2061 \subsection{Client-Side Programming}
adamc@659	2062
adamc@701	2063 Ur/Web supports running code on web browsers, via automatic compilation to JavaScript.
adamc@701	2064
adamc@701	2065 \subsubsection{The Basics}
adamc@701	2066
adam@1400	2067 All of the functions in this subsection are client-side only.
adam@1400	2068
adam@1297	2069 Clients can open alert and confirm dialog boxes, in the usual annoying JavaScript way.
adamc@701	2070 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1297	2071 \mt{val} \; \mt{alert} : \mt{string} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1297	2072 \mt{val} \; \mt{confirm} : \mt{string} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{bool}
adamc@701	2073 \end{array}$$
adamc@701	2074
adamc@701	2075 Any transaction may be run in a new thread with the $\mt{spawn}$ function.
adamc@701	2076 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@701	2077 \mt{val} \; \mt{spawn} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@701	2078 \end{array}$$
adamc@701	2079
adamc@701	2080 The current thread can be paused for at least a specified number of milliseconds.
adamc@701	2081 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@701	2082 \mt{val} \; \mt{sleep} : \mt{int} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@701	2083 \end{array}$$
adamc@701	2084
adam@1770	2085 A few functions are available to registers callbacks for particular error events. Respectively, they are triggered on calls to $\mt{error}$, uncaught JavaScript exceptions, failure of remote procedure calls, the severance of the connection serving asynchronous messages, or the occurrence of some other error with that connection. If no handlers are registered for a kind of error, then a JavaScript \cd{alert()} is used to announce its occurrence. When one of these functions is called multiple times within a single page, all registered handlers are run when appropriate events occur, with handlers run in the reverse of their registration order.
adamc@787	2086 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@787	2087 \mt{val} \; \mt{onError} : (\mt{xbody} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@787	2088 \mt{val} \; \mt{onFail} : (\mt{string} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@787	2089 \mt{val} \; \mt{onConnectFail} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@787	2090 \mt{val} \; \mt{onDisconnect} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@787	2091 \mt{val} \; \mt{onServerError} : (\mt{string} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adamc@787	2092 \end{array}$$
adamc@787	2093
adam@1555	2094 There are also functions to register standard document-level event handlers.
adam@1555	2095
adam@1555	2096 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1783	2097 \mt{val} \; \mt{onClick} : (\mt{mouseEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1783	2098 \mt{val} \; \mt{onDblclick} : (\mt{mouseEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1783	2099 \mt{val} \; \mt{onKeydown} : (\mt{keyEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1783	2100 \mt{val} \; \mt{onKeypress} : (\mt{keyEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1783	2101 \mt{val} \; \mt{onKeyup} : (\mt{keyEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1783	2102 \mt{val} \; \mt{onMousedown} : (\mt{mouseEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1783	2103 \mt{val} \; \mt{onMouseup} : (\mt{mouseEvent} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}) \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adam@1555	2104 \end{array}$$
adam@1555	2105
adam@1559	2106 Versions of standard JavaScript functions are provided that event handlers may call to mask default handling or prevent bubbling of events up to parent DOM nodes, respectively.
adam@1559	2107
adam@1559	2108 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1559	2109 \mt{val} \; \mt{preventDefault} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1559	2110 \mt{val} \; \mt{stopPropagation} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adam@1559	2111 \end{array}$$
adam@1559	2112
adam@1926	2113 Finally, here is an HTML tag to leave a marker in the \cd{<head>} of a document asking for some side-effecting code to be run. This pattern is \emph{much} less common in Ur/Web applications than in normal HTML/JavaScript applications; see Section \ref{signals} for the more idiomatic, functional way of manipulating the visible page.
adam@1926	2114
adam@1926	2115 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1926	2116 \mt{val} \; \mt{script} : \mt{unit} \to \mt{tag} \; [\mt{Code} = \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}] \; \mt{head} \; [] \; [] \; []
adam@1926	2117 \end{array}$$
adam@1926	2118
adam@1926	2119 Note that the Ur/Web version of \cd{<script>} is used like \cd{<script code=\{...\}/>}, rather than \cd{<script>...</script>}.
adam@1926	2120
adam@1556	2121 \subsubsection{Node IDs}
adam@1556	2122
adam@1556	2123 There is an abstract type of node IDs that may be assigned to \cd{id} attributes of most HTML tags.
adam@1556	2124
adam@1556	2125 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1556	2126 \mt{type} \; \mt{id} \\
adam@1556	2127 \mt{val} \; \mt{fresh} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{id}
adam@1556	2128 \end{array}$$
adam@1556	2129
adam@1785	2130 The \cd{fresh} function is allowed on both server and client, but there is no other way to create IDs, which includes lack of a way to force an ID to match a particular string. The main semantic importance of IDs within Ur/Web is in uses of the HTML \cd{<label>} tag. IDs play a much more central role in mainstream JavaScript programming, but Ur/Web uses a very different model to enable changes to particular nodes of a page tree, as the next manual subsection explains. IDs may still be useful in interfacing with JavaScript code (for instance, through Ur/Web's FFI).
adam@1785	2131
adam@1785	2132 One further use of IDs is as handles for requesting that \emph{focus} be given to specific tags.
adam@1785	2133
adam@1785	2134 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1785	2135 \mt{val} \; \mt{giveFocus} : \mt{id} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}
adam@1785	2136 \end{array}$$
adam@1556	2137
adam@1643	2138 \subsubsection{\label{signals}Functional-Reactive Page Generation}
adamc@701	2139
adamc@701	2140 Most approaches to ``AJAX''-style coding involve imperative manipulation of the DOM tree representing an HTML document's structure. Ur/Web follows the \emph{functional-reactive} approach instead. Programs may allocate mutable \emph{sources} of arbitrary types, and an HTML page is effectively a pure function over the latest values of the sources. The page is not mutated directly, but rather it changes automatically as the sources are mutated.
adamc@659	2141
adam@1403	2142 More operationally, you can think of a source as a mutable cell with facilities for subscription to change notifications. That level of detail is hidden behind a monadic facility to be described below. First, there are three primitive operations for working with sources just as if they were ML \cd{ref} cells, corresponding to ML's \cd{ref}, \cd{:=}, and \cd{!} operations.
adam@1403	2143
adamc@659	2144 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@659	2145 \mt{con} \; \mt{source} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@659	2146 \mt{val} \; \mt{source} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{source} \; \mt{t}) \\
adamc@659	2147 \mt{val} \; \mt{set} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{source} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@659	2148 \mt{val} \; \mt{get} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{source} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t}
adamc@659	2149 \end{array}$$
adamc@659	2150
adam@1400	2151 Only source creation and setting are supported server-side, as a convenience to help in setting up a page, where you may wish to allocate many sources that will be referenced through the page. All server-side storage of values inside sources uses string serializations of values, while client-side storage uses normal JavaScript values.
adam@1400	2152
adam@1608	2153 Pure functions over arbitrary numbers of sources are represented in a monad of \emph{signals}, which may only be used in client-side code. This is presented to the programmer in the form of a monad $\mt{signal}$, each of whose values represents (conceptually) some pure function over all sources that may be allocated in the course of program execution. A monad operation $\mt{signal}$ denotes the identity function over a particular source. By using $\mt{signal}$ on a source, you implicitly subscribe to change notifications for that source. That is, your signal will automatically be recomputed as that source changes. The usual monad operators make it possible to build up complex signals that depend on multiple sources; automatic updating upon source-value changes still happens automatically. There is also an operator for computing a signal's current value within a transaction.
adamc@659	2154
adamc@659	2155 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@659	2156 \mt{con} \; \mt{signal} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@659	2157 \mt{val} \; \mt{signal\_monad} : \mt{monad} \; \mt{signal} \\
adam@1608	2158 \mt{val} \; \mt{signal} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{source} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{signal} \; \mt{t} \\
adam@1608	2159 \mt{val} \; \mt{current} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{signal} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t}
adamc@659	2160 \end{array}$$
adamc@659	2161
adamc@659	2162 A reactive portion of an HTML page is injected with a $\mt{dyn}$ tag, which has a signal-valued attribute $\mt{Signal}$.
adamc@659	2163
adamc@659	2164 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1641	2165 \mt{val} \; \mt{dyn} : \mt{ctx} ::: \{\mt{Unit}\} \to \mt{use} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to \mt{bind} ::: \{\mt{Type}\} \to [\mt{ctx} \sim [\mt{Dyn}]] \Rightarrow \mt{unit} \\
adam@1641	2166 \hspace{.1in} \to \mt{tag} \; [\mt{Signal} = \mt{signal} \; (\mt{xml} \; ([\mt{Dyn}] \rc \mt{ctx}) \; \mt{use} \; \mt{bind})] \; ([\mt{Dyn}] \rc \mt{ctx}) \; [] \; \mt{use} \; \mt{bind}
adamc@659	2167 \end{array}$$
adamc@659	2168
adam@1648	2169 The semantics of \cd{<dyn>} tags is somewhat subtle. When the signal associated with such a tag changes value, the associated subtree of the HTML page is recreated. Some properties of the subtree, such as attributes and client-side widget values, are specified explicitly in the signal value, so these may be counted on to remain the same after recreation. Other properties, like focus and cursor position within textboxes, are \emph{not} specified by signal values, and these properties will be \emph{reset} upon subtree regeneration. Furthermore, user interaction with widgets may not work properly during regeneration. For instance, clicking a button while it is being regenerated may not trigger its \cd{onclick} event code.
adam@1648	2170
adam@1648	2171 Currently, the only way to avoid undesired resets is to avoid regeneration of containing subtrees. There are two main strategies for achieving that goal. First, when changes to a subtree can be confined to CSS classes of tags, the \texttt{dynClass} pseudo-attribute may be used instead (see Section \ref{xml}), as it does not regenerate subtrees. Second, a single \cd{<dyn>} tag may be broken into multiple tags, in a way that makes finer-grained dependency structure explicit. This latter strategy can avoid ``spurious'' regenerations that are not actually required to achieve the intended semantics.
adam@1648	2172
adam@1786	2173 Transactions can be run on the client by including them in attributes like the $\mt{Onclick}$ attribute of $\mt{button}$, and GUI widgets like $\mt{ctextbox}$ have $\mt{Source}$ attributes that can be used to connect them to sources, so that their values can be read by code running because of, e.g., an $\mt{Onclick}$ event. It is also possible to create an ``active'' HTML fragment that runs a $\mt{transaction}$ to determine its content, possibly allocating some sources in the process:
adam@1786	2174
adam@1786	2175 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1786	2176 \mt{val} \; \mt{active} : \mt{unit} \to \mt{tag} \; [\mt{Code} = \mt{transaction} \; \mt{xbody}] \; \mt{body} \; [] \; [] \; []
adam@1786	2177 \end{array}$$
adamc@701	2178
adamc@914	2179 \subsubsection{Remote Procedure Calls}
adamc@914	2180
adamc@914	2181 Any function call may be made a client-to-server ``remote procedure call'' if the function being called needs no features that are only available to client code. To make a function call an RPC, pass that function call as the argument to $\mt{Basis.rpc}$:
adamc@914	2182
adamc@914	2183 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@914	2184 \mt{val} \; \mt{rpc} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t}
adamc@914	2185 \end{array}$$
adamc@914	2186
adam@1848	2187 There is an alternate form that uses $\mt{None}$ to indicate that an error occurred during RPC processing, rather than raising an exception to abort this branch of control flow.
adam@1848	2188
adam@1848	2189 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1848	2190 \mt{val} \; \mt{tryRpc} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{option} \; \mt{t})
adam@1848	2191 \end{array}$$
adam@1848	2192
adamc@701	2193 \subsubsection{Asynchronous Message-Passing}
adamc@701	2194
adamc@701	2195 To support asynchronous, ``server push'' delivery of messages to clients, any client that might need to receive an asynchronous message is assigned a unique ID. These IDs may be retrieved both on the client and on the server, during execution of code related to a client.
adamc@701	2196
adamc@701	2197 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@701	2198 \mt{type} \; \mt{client} \\
adamc@701	2199 \mt{val} \; \mt{self} : \mt{transaction} \; \mt{client}
adamc@701	2200 \end{array}$$
adamc@701	2201
adam@1940	2202 \emph{Channels} are the means of message-passing. Each channel is created in the context of a client and belongs to that client; no other client may receive the channel's messages. Note that here \emph{client} has a technical Ur/Web meaning so that it describes only \emph{single page views}, so a user following a traditional link within an application will remove the ability for \emph{any} code to receive messages on the channels associated with the previous client. Each channel type includes the type of values that may be sent over the channel. Sending and receiving are asynchronous, in the sense that a client need not be ready to receive a message right away. Rather, sent messages may queue up, waiting to be processed.
adamc@701	2203
adamc@701	2204 $$\begin{array}{l}
adamc@701	2205 \mt{con} \; \mt{channel} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adamc@701	2206 \mt{val} \; \mt{channel} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{transaction} \; (\mt{channel} \; \mt{t}) \\
adamc@701	2207 \mt{val} \; \mt{send} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{channel} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit} \\
adamc@701	2208 \mt{val} \; \mt{recv} : \mt{t} ::: \mt{Type} \to \mt{channel} \; \mt{t} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{t}
adamc@701	2209 \end{array}$$
adamc@701	2210
adamc@701	2211 The $\mt{channel}$ and $\mt{send}$ operations may only be executed on the server, and $\mt{recv}$ may only be executed on a client. Neither clients nor channels may be passed as arguments from clients to server-side functions, so persistent channels can only be maintained by storing them in the database and looking them up using the current client ID or some application-specific value as a key.
adamc@701	2212
adamc@701	2213 Clients and channels live only as long as the web browser page views that they are associated with. When a user surfs away, his client and its channels will be garbage-collected, after that user is not heard from for the timeout period. Garbage collection deletes any database row that contains a client or channel directly. Any reference to one of these types inside an $\mt{option}$ is set to $\mt{None}$ instead. Both kinds of handling have the flavor of weak pointers, and that is a useful way to think about clients and channels in the database.
adamc@701	2214
adam@1551	2215 \emph{Note}: Currently, there are known concurrency issues with multi-threaded applications that employ message-passing on top of database engines that don't support true serializable transactions. Postgres 9.1 is the only supported engine that does this properly.
adam@1551	2216
adamc@659	2217
adamc@549	2218 \section{Ur/Web Syntax Extensions}
adamc@549	2219
adamc@549	2220 Ur/Web features some syntactic shorthands for building values using the functions from the last section. This section sketches the grammar of those extensions. We write spans of syntax inside brackets to indicate that they are optional.
adamc@549	2221
adamc@549	2222 \subsection{SQL}
adamc@549	2223
adamc@786	2224 \subsubsection{\label{tables}Table Declarations}
adamc@786	2225
adamc@788	2226 $\mt{table}$ declarations may include constraints, via these grammar rules.
adamc@788	2227 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adam@1594	2228 \textrm{Declarations} & d &::=& \mt{table} \; x : c \; [pk[,]] \; cts \mid \mt{view} \; x = V \\
adamc@788	2229 \textrm{Primary key constraints} & pk &::=& \mt{PRIMARY} \; \mt{KEY} \; K \\
adam@1722	2230 \textrm{Keys} & K &::=& f \mid (f, (f,)^+) \mid \{\{e\}\} \\
adamc@788	2231 \textrm{Constraint sets} & cts &::=& \mt{CONSTRAINT} f \; ct \mid cts, cts \mid \{\{e\}\} \\
adamc@788	2232 \textrm{Constraints} & ct &::=& \mt{UNIQUE} \; K \mid \mt{CHECK} \; E \\
adamc@788	2233 &&& \mid \mt{FOREIGN} \; \mt{KEY} \; K \; \mt{REFERENCES} \; F \; (K) \; [\mt{ON} \; \mt{DELETE} \; pr] \; [\mt{ON} \; \mt{UPDATE} \; pr] \\
adamc@788	2234 \textrm{Foreign tables} & F &::=& x \mid \{\{e\}\} \\
adam@1594	2235 \textrm{Propagation modes} & pr &::=& \mt{NO} \; \mt{ACTION} \mid \mt{RESTRICT} \mid \mt{CASCADE} \mid \mt{SET} \; \mt{NULL} \\
adam@1594	2236 \textrm{View expressions} & V &::=& Q \mid \{e\}
adamc@788	2237 \end{array}$$
adamc@788	2238
adamc@788	2239 A signature item $\mt{table} \; \mt{x} : \mt{c}$ is actually elaborated into two signature items: $\mt{con} \; \mt{x\_hidden\_constraints} :: \{\{\mt{Unit}\}\}$ and $\mt{val} \; \mt{x} : \mt{sql\_table} \; \mt{c} \; \mt{x\_hidden\_constraints}$. This is appropriate for common cases where client code doesn't care which keys a table has. It's also possible to include constraints after a $\mt{table}$ signature item, with the same syntax as for $\mt{table}$ declarations. This may look like dependent typing, but it's just a convenience. The constraints are type-checked to determine a constructor $u$ to include in $\mt{val} \; \mt{x} : \mt{sql\_table} \; \mt{c} \; (u \rc \mt{x\_hidden\_constraints})$, and then the expressions are thrown away. Nonetheless, it can be useful for documentation purposes to include table constraint details in signatures. Note that the automatic generation of $\mt{x\_hidden\_constraints}$ leads to a kind of free subtyping with respect to which constraints are defined.
adamc@788	2240
adamc@788	2241
adamc@549	2242 \subsubsection{Queries}
adamc@549	2243
adamc@550	2244 Queries $Q$ are added to the rules for expressions $e$.
adamc@550	2245
adamc@549	2246 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adam@1684	2247 \textrm{Queries} & Q &::=& (q \; [\mt{ORDER} \; \mt{BY} \; O] \; [\mt{LIMIT} \; N] \; [\mt{OFFSET} \; N]) \\
adamc@1085	2248 \textrm{Pre-queries} & q &::=& \mt{SELECT} \; [\mt{DISTINCT}] \; P \; \mt{FROM} \; F,^+ \; [\mt{WHERE} \; E] \; [\mt{GROUP} \; \mt{BY} \; p,^+] \; [\mt{HAVING} \; E] \\
adamc@1085	2249 &&& \mid q \; R \; q \mid \{\{\{e\}\}\} \\
adam@1684	2250 \textrm{Relational operators} & R &::=& \mt{UNION} \mid \mt{INTERSECT} \mid \mt{EXCEPT} \\
adam@1778	2251 \textrm{$\mt{ORDER \; BY}$ items} & O &::=& \mt{RANDOM} [()] \mid \hat{E} \; [o] \mid \hat{E} \; [o], O
adamc@549	2252 \end{array}$$
adamc@549	2253
adamc@549	2254 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@549	2255 \textrm{Projections} & P &::=& \ast & \textrm{all columns} \\
adamc@549	2256 &&& p,^+ & \textrm{particular columns} \\
adamc@549	2257 \textrm{Pre-projections} & p &::=& t.f & \textrm{one column from a table} \\
adamc@558	2258 &&& t.\{\{c\}\} & \textrm{a record of columns from a table (of kind $\{\mt{Type}\}$)} \\
adam@1627	2259 &&& t.* & \textrm{all columns from a table} \\
adam@1778	2260 &&& \hat{E} \; [\mt{AS} \; f] & \textrm{expression column} \\
adamc@549	2261 \textrm{Table names} & t &::=& x & \textrm{constant table name (automatically capitalized)} \\
adamc@549	2262 &&& X & \textrm{constant table name} \\
adamc@549	2263 &&& \{\{c\}\} & \textrm{computed table name (of kind $\mt{Name}$)} \\
adamc@549	2264 \textrm{Column names} & f &::=& X & \textrm{constant column name} \\
adamc@549	2265 &&& \{c\} & \textrm{computed column name (of kind $\mt{Name}$)} \\
adamc@549	2266 \textrm{Tables} & T &::=& x & \textrm{table variable, named locally by its own capitalization} \\
adam@1756	2267 &&& x \; \mt{AS} \; X & \textrm{table variable, with local name} \\
adam@1756	2268 &&& x \; \mt{AS} \; \{c\} & \textrm{table variable, with computed local name} \\
adamc@549	2269 &&& \{\{e\}\} \; \mt{AS} \; t & \textrm{computed table expression, with local name} \\
adam@1756	2270 &&& \{\{e\}\} \; \mt{AS} \; \{c\} & \textrm{computed table expression, with computed local name} \\
adamc@1085	2271 \textrm{$\mt{FROM}$ items} & F &::=& T \mid \{\{e\}\} \mid F \; J \; \mt{JOIN} \; F \; \mt{ON} \; E \\
adamc@1085	2272 &&& \mid F \; \mt{CROSS} \; \mt{JOIN} \ F \\
adamc@1193	2273 &&& \mid (Q) \; \mt{AS} \; t \\
adamc@1085	2274 \textrm{Joins} & J &::=& [\mt{INNER}] \\
adamc@1085	2275 &&& \mid [\mt{LEFT} \mid \mt{RIGHT} \mid \mt{FULL}] \; [\mt{OUTER}] \\
adam@1587	2276 \textrm{SQL expressions} & E &::=& t.f & \textrm{column references} \\
adamc@549	2277 &&& X & \textrm{named expression references} \\
adam@1490	2278 &&& \{[e]\} & \textrm{injected native Ur expressions} \\
adam@1778	2279 &&& \{e\} & \textrm{computed expressions, probably using $\mt{sql\_exp}$ directly} \\
adamc@549	2280 &&& \mt{TRUE} \mid \mt{FALSE} & \textrm{boolean constants} \\
adamc@549	2281 &&& \ell & \textrm{primitive type literals} \\
adamc@549	2282 &&& \mt{NULL} & \textrm{null value (injection of $\mt{None}$)} \\
adamc@549	2283 &&& E \; \mt{IS} \; \mt{NULL} & \textrm{nullness test} \\
adam@1602	2284 &&& \mt{COALESCE}(E, E) & \textrm{take first non-null value} \\
adamc@549	2285 &&& n & \textrm{nullary operators} \\
adamc@549	2286 &&& u \; E & \textrm{unary operators} \\
adamc@549	2287 &&& E \; b \; E & \textrm{binary operators} \\
adam@1778	2288 &&& \mt{COUNT}(\ast) & \textrm{count number of rows} \\
adam@1778	2289 &&& a(E) & \textrm{other aggregate function} \\
adam@1573	2290 &&& \mt{IF} \; E \; \mt{THEN} \; E \; \mt{ELSE} \; E & \textrm{conditional} \\
adam@1778	2291 &&& (Q) & \textrm{subquery (must return a single expression column)} \\
adamc@549	2292 &&& (E) & \textrm{explicit precedence} \\
adamc@549	2293 \textrm{Nullary operators} & n &::=& \mt{CURRENT\_TIMESTAMP} \\
adamc@549	2294 \textrm{Unary operators} & u &::=& \mt{NOT} \\
adam@1688	2295 \textrm{Binary operators} & b &::=& \mt{AND} \mid \mt{OR} \mid = \mid \neq \mid < \mid \leq \mid > \mid \geq \\
adamc@1188	2296 \textrm{Aggregate functions} & a &::=& \mt{COUNT} \mid \mt{AVG} \mid \mt{SUM} \mid \mt{MIN} \mid \mt{MAX} \\
adam@1543	2297 \textrm{Directions} & o &::=& \mt{ASC} \mid \mt{DESC} \mid \{e\} \\
adamc@549	2298 \textrm{SQL integer} & N &::=& n \mid \{e\} \\
adam@1778	2299 \textrm{Windowable expressions} & \hat{E} &::=& E \\
adam@1778	2300 &&& w \; [\mt{OVER} \; ( & \textrm{(Postgres only)} \\
adam@1778	2301 &&& \hspace{.1in} [\mt{PARTITION} \; \mt{BY} \; E] \\
adam@1778	2302 &&& \hspace{.1in} [\mt{ORDER} \; \mt{BY} \; O])] \\
adam@1778	2303 \textrm{Window function} & w &::=& \mt{RANK}() \\
adam@1778	2304 &&& \mt{COUNT}(*) \\
adam@1778	2305 &&& a(E)
adamc@549	2306 \end{array}$$
adamc@549	2307
adamc@1085	2308 Additionally, an SQL expression may be inserted into normal Ur code with the syntax $(\mt{SQL} \; E)$ or $(\mt{WHERE} \; E)$. Similar shorthands exist for other nonterminals, with the prefix $\mt{FROM}$ for $\mt{FROM}$ items and $\mt{SELECT1}$ for pre-queries.
adamc@549	2309
adam@1683	2310 Unnamed expression columns in $\mt{SELECT}$ clauses are assigned consecutive natural numbers, starting with 1. Any expression in a $p$ position that is enclosed in parentheses is treated as an expression column, rather than a column pulled directly out of a table, even if it is only a field projection. (This distinction affects the record type used to describe query results.)
adamc@1194	2311
adamc@550	2312 \subsubsection{DML}
adamc@550	2313
adamc@550	2314 DML commands $D$ are added to the rules for expressions $e$.
adamc@550	2315
adamc@550	2316 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@550	2317 \textrm{Commands} & D &::=& (\mt{INSERT} \; \mt{INTO} \; T^E \; (f,^+) \; \mt{VALUES} \; (E,^+)) \\
adamc@550	2318 &&& (\mt{UPDATE} \; T^E \; \mt{SET} \; (f = E,)^+ \; \mt{WHERE} \; E) \\
adamc@550	2319 &&& (\mt{DELETE} \; \mt{FROM} \; T^E \; \mt{WHERE} \; E) \\
adamc@550	2320 \textrm{Table expressions} & T^E &::=& x \mid \{\{e\}\}
adamc@550	2321 \end{array}$$
adamc@550	2322
adamc@550	2323 Inside $\mt{UPDATE}$ and $\mt{DELETE}$ commands, lone variables $X$ are interpreted as references to columns of the implicit table $\mt{T}$, rather than to named expressions.
adamc@549	2324
adamc@551	2325 \subsection{XML}
adamc@551	2326
adamc@551	2327 XML fragments $L$ are added to the rules for expressions $e$.
adamc@551	2328
adamc@551	2329 $$\begin{array}{rrcll}
adamc@551	2330 \textrm{XML fragments} & L &::=& \texttt{<xml/>} \mid \texttt{<xml>}l^*\texttt{</xml>} \\
adamc@551	2331 \textrm{XML pieces} & l &::=& \textrm{text} & \textrm{cdata} \\
adamc@551	2332 &&& \texttt{<}g\texttt{/>} & \textrm{tag with no children} \\
adamc@551	2333 &&& \texttt{<}g\texttt{>}l^*\texttt{</}x\texttt{>} & \textrm{tag with children} \\
adamc@559	2334 &&& \{e\} & \textrm{computed XML fragment} \\
adamc@559	2335 &&& \{[e]\} & \textrm{injection of an Ur expression, via the $\mt{Top}.\mt{txt}$ function} \\
adamc@551	2336 \textrm{Tag} & g &::=& h \; (x = v)^* \\
adamc@551	2337 \textrm{Tag head} & h &::=& x & \textrm{tag name} \\
adamc@551	2338 &&& h\{c\} & \textrm{constructor parameter} \\
adamc@551	2339 \textrm{Attribute value} & v &::=& \ell & \textrm{literal value} \\
adamc@551	2340 &&& \{e\} & \textrm{computed value} \\
adamc@551	2341 \end{array}$$
adamc@551	2342
adam@1751	2343 Further, there is a special convenience and compatibility form for setting CSS classes of tags. If a \cd{class} attribute has a value that is a string literal, the literal is parsed in the usual HTML way and replaced with calls to appropriate Ur/Web combinators. Any dashes in the text are replaced with underscores to determine Ur identifiers. The same desugaring can be accessed in a normal expression context by calling the pseudo-function \cd{CLASS} on a string literal.
adam@1751	2344
adam@1751	2345 Similar support is provided for \cd{style} attributes. Normal CSS syntax may be used in string literals that are \cd{style} attribute values, and the desugaring may be accessed elsewhere with the pseudo-function \cd{STYLE}.
adamc@552	2346
adamc@1198	2347 \section{\label{structure}The Structure of Web Applications}
adamc@553	2348
adam@1797	2349 A web application is built from a series of modules, with one module, the last one appearing in the \texttt{.urp} file, designated as the main module. The signature of the main module determines the URL entry points to the application. Such an entry point should have type $\mt{t1} \to \ldots \to \mt{tn} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{page}$, for any integer $n \geq 0$, where $\mt{page}$ is a type synonym for top-level HTML pages, defined in $\mt{Basis}$. If such a function is at the top level of main module $M$, with $n = 0$, it will be accessible at URI \texttt{/M/f}, and so on for more deeply nested functions, as described in Section \ref{tag} below. See Section \ref{cl} for information on the \texttt{prefix} and \texttt{rewrite url} directives, which can be used to rewrite the default URIs of different entry point functions. The final URL of a function is its default module-based URI, with \texttt{rewrite url} rules applied, and with the \texttt{prefix} prepended. Arguments to an entry-point function are deserialized from the part of the URI following \texttt{f}.
adamc@553	2350
adam@1532	2351 Elements of modules beside the main module, including page handlers, will only be included in the final application if they are transitive dependencies of the handlers in the main module.
adam@1532	2352
adam@1787	2353 Normal links are accessible via HTTP \texttt{GET}, which the relevant standard says should never cause side effects. To export a page which may cause side effects, accessible only via HTTP \texttt{POST}, include one argument of the page handler of type $\mt{Basis.postBody}$. When the handler is called, this argument will receive a value that can be deconstructed into a MIME type (with $\mt{Basis.postType}$) and payload (with $\mt{Basis.postData}$). This kind of handler should not be used with forms that exist solely within Ur/Web apps; for these, use Ur/Web's built-in support, as described below. It may still be useful to use $\mt{Basis.postBody}$ with form requests submitted by code outside an Ur/Web app. For such cases, the function $\mt{Top.postFields} : \mt{postBody} \to \mt{list} \; (\mt{string} \times \mt{string})$ may be useful, breaking a \texttt{POST} body of type \texttt{application/x-www-form-urlencoded} into its name-value pairs.
adam@1347	2354
adam@1370	2355 Any normal page handler may also include arguments of type $\mt{option \; Basis.queryString}$, which will be handled specially. Rather than being deserialized from the current URI, such an argument is passed the whole query string that the handler received. The string may be analyzed by calling $\mt{Basis.show}$ on it. A handler of this kind may be passed as an argument to $\mt{Basis.effectfulUrl}$ to generate a URL to a page that may be used as a ``callback'' by an external service, such that the handler is allowed to cause side effects.
adam@1370	2356
adamc@553	2357 When the standalone web server receives a request for a known page, it calls the function for that page, ``running'' the resulting transaction to produce the page to return to the client. Pages link to other pages with the \texttt{link} attribute of the \texttt{a} HTML tag. A link has type $\mt{transaction} \; \mt{page}$, and the semantics of a link are that this transaction should be run to compute the result page, when the link is followed. Link targets are assigned URL names in the same way as top-level entry points.
adamc@553	2358
adamc@553	2359 HTML forms are handled in a similar way. The $\mt{action}$ attribute of a $\mt{submit}$ form tag takes a value of type $\$\mt{use} \to \mt{transaction} \; \mt{page}$, where $\mt{use}$ is a kind-$\{\mt{Type}\}$ record of the form fields used by this action handler. Action handlers are assigned URL patterns in the same way as above.
adamc@553	2360
adam@1653	2361 For both links and actions, direct arguments and local variables mentioned implicitly via closures are automatically included in serialized form in URLs, in the order in which they appear in the source code. Such serialized values may only be drawn from a limited set of types, and programs will fail to compile when the (implicit or explicit) arguments of page handler functions involve disallowed types. (Keep in mind that every free variable of a function is an implicit argument if it was not defined at the top level of a module.) For instance:
adam@1653	2362 \begin{itemize}
adam@1653	2363 \item Functions are disallowed, since there is no obvious way to serialize them safely.
adam@1653	2364 \item XML fragments are disallowed, since it is unclear how to check client-provided XML to be sure it doesn't break the HTML invariants of the application (for instance, by mutating the DOM in the conventional way, interfering with Ur/Web's functional-reactive regime).
adam@1653	2365 \item Blobs (``files'') are disallowed, since they can easily have very large serializations that could not fit within most web servers' URL size limits. (And you probably don't want to be serializing, e.g., image files in URLs, anyway.)
adam@1653	2366 \end{itemize}
adamc@553	2367
adamc@660	2368 Ur/Web programs generally mix server- and client-side code in a fairly transparent way. The one important restriction is that mixed client-server code must encapsulate all server-side pieces within named functions. This is because execution of such pieces will be implemented by explicit calls to the remote web server, and it is useful to get the programmer's help in designing the interface to be used. For example, this makes it easier to allow a client running an old version of an application to continue interacting with a server that has been upgraded to a new version, if the programmer took care to keep the interfaces of all of the old remote calls the same. The functions implementing these services are assigned names in the same way as normal web entry points, by using module structure.
adamc@660	2369
adamc@789	2370 \medskip
adamc@789	2371
adam@1347	2372 The HTTP standard suggests that GET requests only be used in ways that generate no side effects. Side effecting operations should use POST requests instead. The Ur/Web compiler enforces this rule strictly, via a simple conservative program analysis. Any page that may have a side effect must be accessed through a form, all of which use POST requests, or via a direct call to a page handler with some argument of type $\mt{Basis.postBody}$. A page is judged to have a side effect if its code depends syntactically on any of the side-effecting, server-side FFI functions. Links, forms, and most client-side event handlers are not followed during this syntactic traversal, but \texttt{<body onload=\{...\}>} handlers \emph{are} examined, since they run right away and could just as well be considered parts of main page handlers.
adamc@789	2373
adamc@789	2374 Ur/Web includes a kind of automatic protection against cross site request forgery attacks. Whenever any page execution can have side effects and can also read at least one cookie value, all cookie values must be signed cryptographically, to ensure that the user has come to the current page by submitting a form on a real page generated by the proper server. Signing and signature checking are inserted automatically by the compiler. This prevents attacks like phishing schemes where users are directed to counterfeit pages with forms that submit to your application, where a user's cookies might be submitted without his knowledge, causing some undesired side effect.
adamc@789	2375
adam@1348	2376 \subsection{Tasks}
adam@1348	2377
adam@1348	2378 In many web applications, it's useful to run code at points other than requests from browsers. Ur/Web's \emph{task} mechanism facilitates this. A type family of \emph{task kinds} is in the standard library:
adam@1348	2379
adam@1348	2380 $$\begin{array}{l}
adam@1348	2381 \mt{con} \; \mt{task\_kind} :: \mt{Type} \to \mt{Type} \\
adam@1348	2382 \mt{val} \; \mt{initialize} : \mt{task\_kind} \; \mt{unit} \\
adam@1349	2383 \mt{val} \; \mt{clientLeaves} : \mt{task\_kind} \; \mt{client} \\
adam@1349	2384 \mt{val} \; \mt{periodic} : \mt{int} \to \mt{task\_kind} \; \mt{unit}
adam@1348	2385 \end{array}$$
adam@1348	2386
adam@1348	2387 A task kind names a particular extension point of generated applications, where the type parameter of a task kind describes which extra input data is available at that extension point. Add task code with the special declaration form $\mt{task} \; e_1 = e_2$, where $e_1$ is a task kind with data $\tau$, and $e_2$ is a function from $\tau$ to $\mt{transaction} \; \mt{unit}$.
adam@1348	2388
adam@1348	2389 The currently supported task kinds are:
adam@1348	2390 \begin{itemize}
adam@1349	2391 \item $\mt{initialize}$: Code that is run when the application starts up.
adam@1348	2392 \item $\mt{clientLeaves}$: Code that is run for each client that the runtime system decides has surfed away. When a request that generates a new client handle is aborted, that handle will still eventually be passed to $\mt{clientLeaves}$ task code, even though the corresponding browser was never informed of the client handle's existence. In other words, in general, $\mt{clientLeaves}$ handlers will be called more times than there are actual clients.
adam@1349	2393 \item $\mt{periodic} \; n$: Code that is run when the application starts up and then every $n$ seconds thereafter.
adam@1348	2394 \end{itemize}
adam@1348	2395
adamc@553	2396
adamc@897	2397 \section{The Foreign Function Interface}
adamc@897	2398
adamc@897	2399 It is possible to call your own C and JavaScript code from Ur/Web applications, via the foreign function interface (FFI). The starting point for a new binding is a \texttt{.urs} signature file that presents your external library as a single Ur/Web module (with no nested modules). Compilation conventions map the types and values that you use into C and/or JavaScript types and values.
adamc@897	2400
adamc@897	2401 It is most convenient to encapsulate an FFI binding with a new \texttt{.urp} file, which applications can include with the \texttt{library} directive in their own \texttt{.urp} files. A number of directives are likely to show up in the library's project file.
adamc@897	2402
adamc@897	2403 \begin{itemize}
adamc@897	2404 \item \texttt{clientOnly Module.ident} registers a value as being allowed only in client-side code.
adamc@897	2405 \item \texttt{clientToServer Module.ident} declares a type as OK to marshal between clients and servers. By default, abstract FFI types are not allowed to be marshalled, since your library might be maintaining invariants that the simple serialization code doesn't check.
adam@1878	2406 \item \texttt{effectful Module.ident} registers a function that can have side effects. This is the default for \texttt{transaction}-based types, and, actually, this directive is mostly present for legacy compatibility reasons, since it used to be required explicitly for each \texttt{transaction}al function.
adamc@897	2407 \item \texttt{ffi FILE.urs} names the file giving your library's signature. You can include multiple such files in a single \texttt{.urp} file, and each file \texttt{mod.urp} defines an FFI module \texttt{Mod}.
adamc@1099	2408 \item \texttt{include FILE} requests inclusion of a C header file.
adamc@897	2409 \item \texttt{jsFunc Module.ident=name} gives a mapping from an Ur name for a value to a JavaScript name.
adamc@897	2410 \item \texttt{link FILE} requests that \texttt{FILE} be linked into applications. It should be a C object or library archive file, and you are responsible for generating it with your own build process.
adamc@897	2411 \item \texttt{script URL} requests inclusion of a JavaScript source file within application HTML.
adamc@897	2412 \item \texttt{serverOnly Module.ident} registers a value as being allowed only in server-side code.
adamc@897	2413 \end{itemize}
adamc@897	2414
adamc@897	2415 \subsection{Writing C FFI Code}
adamc@897	2416
adam@1881	2417 C source files connecting to the Ur/Web FFI should include \texttt{urweb.h}, and C++ source files should include \texttt{urweb\_cpp.h}.
adam@1881	2418
adamc@897	2419 A server-side FFI type or value \texttt{Module.ident} must have a corresponding type or value definition \texttt{uw\_Module\_ident} in C code. With the current Ur/Web version, it's not generally possible to work with Ur records or complex datatypes in C code, but most other kinds of types are fair game.
adamc@897	2420
adamc@897	2421 \begin{itemize}
adam@1881	2422 \item Primitive types defined in \texttt{Basis} are themselves using the standard FFI interface, so you may refer to them like \texttt{uw\_Basis\_t}. See \texttt{include/urweb/types.h} for their definitions.
adamc@897	2423 \item Enumeration datatypes, which have only constructors that take no arguments, should be defined using C \texttt{enum}s. The type is named as for any other type identifier, and each constructor \texttt{c} gets an enumeration constant named \texttt{uw\_Module\_c}.
adamc@897	2424 \item A datatype \texttt{dt} (such as \texttt{Basis.option}) that has one non-value-carrying constructor \texttt{NC} and one value-carrying constructor \texttt{C} gets special treatment. Where \texttt{T} is the type of \texttt{C}'s argument, and where we represent \texttt{T} as \texttt{t} in C, we represent \texttt{NC} with \texttt{NULL}. The representation of \texttt{C} depends on whether we're sure that we don't need to use \texttt{NULL} to represent \texttt{t} values; this condition holds only for strings and complex datatypes. For such types, \texttt{C v} is represented with the C encoding of \texttt{v}, such that the translation of \texttt{dt} is \texttt{t}. For other types, \texttt{C v} is represented with a pointer to the C encoding of v, such that the translation of \texttt{dt} is \texttt{t*}.
adam@1686	2425 \item Ur/Web involves many types of program syntax, such as for HTML and SQL code. All of these types are implemented with normal C strings, and you may take advantage of that encoding to manipulate code as strings in C FFI code. Be mindful that, in writing such code, it is your responsibility to maintain the appropriate code invariants, or you may reintroduce the code injection vulnerabilities that Ur/Web rules out. The most convenient way to extend Ur/Web with functions that, e.g., use natively unsupported HTML tags is to generate the HTML code with the FFI.
adamc@897	2426 \end{itemize}
adamc@897	2427
adam@1881	2428 The C FFI version of a Ur function with type \texttt{T1 -> ... -> TN -> R} or \texttt{T1 -> ... -> TN -> transaction R} has a C prototype like \texttt{R uw\_Module\_ident(uw\_context, T1, ..., TN)}. Only functions with types of the second form may have side effects. \texttt{uw\_context} is the type of state that persists across handling a client request. Many functions that operate on contexts are prototyped in \texttt{include/urweb/urweb\_cpp.h}. Most should only be used internally by the compiler. A few are useful in general FFI implementation:
adamc@897	2429 \begin{itemize}
adamc@897	2430 \item \begin{verbatim}
adamc@897	2431 void uw_error(uw_context, failure_kind, const char *fmt, ...);
adamc@897	2432 \end{verbatim}
adamc@897	2433 Abort the current request processing, giving a \texttt{printf}-style format string and arguments for generating an error message. The \texttt{failure\_kind} argument can be \texttt{FATAL}, to abort the whole execution; \texttt{BOUNDED\_RETRY}, to try processing the request again from the beginning, but failing if this happens too many times; or \texttt{UNLIMITED\_RETRY}, to repeat processing, with no cap on how many times this can recur.
adamc@897	2434
adam@1329	2435 All pointers to the context-local heap (see description below of \texttt{uw\_malloc()}) become invalid at the start and end of any execution of a main entry point function of an application. For example, if the request handler is restarted because of a \texttt{uw\_error()} call with \texttt{BOUNDED\_RETRY} or for any other reason, it is unsafe to access any local heap pointers that may have been stashed somewhere beforehand.
adam@1329	2436
adamc@897	2437 \item \begin{verbatim}
adam@1469	2438 void uw_set_error_message(uw_context, const char *fmt, ...);
adam@1469	2439 \end{verbatim}
adam@1469	2440 This simpler form of \texttt{uw\_error()} saves an error message without immediately aborting execution.
adam@1469	2441
adam@1469	2442 \item \begin{verbatim}
adamc@897	2443 void uw_push_cleanup(uw_context, void (func)(void ), void *arg);
adamc@897	2444 void uw_pop_cleanup(uw_context);
adamc@897	2445 \end{verbatim}
adam@1329	2446 Manipulate a stack of actions that should be taken if any kind of error condition arises. Calling the ``pop'' function both removes an action from the stack and executes it. It is a bug to let a page request handler finish successfully with unpopped cleanup actions.
adam@1329	2447
adam@1329	2448 Pending cleanup actions aren't intended to have any complex relationship amongst themselves, so, upon request handler abort, pending actions are executed in first-in-first-out order.
adamc@897	2449
adamc@897	2450 \item \begin{verbatim}
adamc@897	2451 void *uw_malloc(uw_context, size_t);
adamc@897	2452 \end{verbatim}
adam@1329	2453 A version of \texttt{malloc()} that allocates memory inside a context's heap, which is managed with region allocation. Thus, there is no \texttt{uw\_free()}, but you need to be careful not to keep ad-hoc C pointers to this area of memory. In general, \texttt{uw\_malloc()}ed memory should only be used in ways compatible with the computation model of pure Ur. This means it is fine to allocate and return a value that could just as well have been built with core Ur code. In contrast, it is almost never safe to store \texttt{uw\_malloc()}ed pointers in global variables, including when the storage happens implicitly by registering a callback that would take the pointer as an argument.
adam@1329	2454
adam@1329	2455 For performance and correctness reasons, it is usually preferable to use \texttt{uw\_malloc()} instead of \texttt{malloc()}. The former manipulates a local heap that can be kept allocated across page requests, while the latter uses global data structures that may face contention during concurrent execution. However, we emphasize again that \texttt{uw\_malloc()} should never be used to implement some logic that couldn't be implemented trivially by a constant-valued expression in Ur.
adamc@897	2456
adamc@897	2457 \item \begin{verbatim}
adamc@897	2458 typedef void (uw_callback)(void );
adam@1328	2459 typedef void (uw_callback_with_retry)(void , int will_retry);
adamc@897	2460 void uw_register_transactional(uw_context, void *data, uw_callback commit,
adam@1328	2461 uw_callback rollback, uw_callback_with_retry free);
adamc@897	2462 \end{verbatim}
adam@1328	2463 All side effects in Ur/Web programs need to be compatible with transactions, such that any set of actions can be undone at any time. Thus, you should not perform actions with non-local side effects directly; instead, register handlers to be called when the current transaction is committed or rolled back. The arguments here give an arbitary piece of data to be passed to callbacks, a function to call on commit, a function to call on rollback, and a function to call afterward in either case to clean up any allocated resources. A rollback handler may be called after the associated commit handler has already been called, if some later part of the commit process fails. A free handler is told whether the runtime system expects to retry the current page request after rollback finishes.
adamc@897	2464
adamc@1085	2465 Any of the callbacks may be \texttt{NULL}. To accommodate some stubbornly non-transactional real-world actions like sending an e-mail message, Ur/Web treats \texttt{NULL} \texttt{rollback} callbacks specially. When a transaction commits, all \texttt{commit} actions that have non-\texttt{NULL} rollback actions are tried before any \texttt{commit} actions that have \texttt{NULL} rollback actions. Thus, if a single execution uses only one non-transactional action, and if that action never fails partway through its execution while still causing an observable side effect, then Ur/Web can maintain the transactional abstraction.
adamc@1085	2466
adam@1329	2467 When a request handler ends with multiple pending transactional actions, their handlers are run in a first-in-last-out stack-like order, wherever the order would otherwise be ambiguous.
adam@1329	2468
adam@1329	2469 It is not safe for any of these handlers to access a context-local heap through a pointer returned previously by \texttt{uw\_malloc()}, nor should any new calls to that function be made. Think of the context-local heap as meant for use by the Ur/Web code itself, while transactional handlers execute after the Ur/Web code has finished.
adam@1329	2470
adam@1469	2471 A handler may signal an error by calling \texttt{uw\_set\_error\_message()}, but it is not safe to call \texttt{uw\_error()} from a handler. Signaling an error in a commit handler will cause the runtime system to switch to aborting the transaction, immediately after the current commit handler returns.
adam@1469	2472
adamc@1085	2473 \item \begin{verbatim}
adamc@1085	2474 void uw_get_global(uw_context, char name);
adamc@1085	2475 void uw_set_global(uw_context, char name, void data, uw_callback free);
adamc@1085	2476 \end{verbatim}
adam@1329	2477 Different FFI-based extensions may want to associate their own pieces of data with contexts. The global interface provides a way of doing that, where each extension must come up with its own unique key. The \texttt{free} argument to \texttt{uw\_set\_global()} explains how to deallocate the saved data. It is never safe to store \texttt{uw\_malloc()}ed pointers in global variable slots.
adamc@1085	2478
adamc@897	2479 \end{itemize}
adamc@897	2480
adamc@897	2481 \subsection{Writing JavaScript FFI Code}
adamc@897	2482
adamc@897	2483 JavaScript is dynamically typed, so Ur/Web type definitions imply no JavaScript code. The JavaScript identifier for each FFI function is set with the \texttt{jsFunc} directive. Each identifier can be defined in any JavaScript file that you ask to include with the \texttt{script} directive.
adamc@897	2484
adamc@897	2485 In contrast to C FFI code, JavaScript FFI functions take no extra context argument. Their argument lists are as you would expect from their Ur types. Only functions whose ranges take the form \texttt{transaction T} should have side effects; the JavaScript ``return type'' of such a function is \texttt{T}. Here are the conventions for representing Ur values in JavaScript.
adamc@897	2486
adamc@897	2487 \begin{itemize}
adamc@897	2488 \item Integers, floats, strings, characters, and booleans are represented in the usual JavaScript way.
adam@1644	2489 \item Ur functions are represented in an unspecified way. This means that you should not rely on any details of function representation. Named FFI functions are represented as JavaScript functions with as many arguments as their Ur types specify. To call a non-FFI function \texttt{f} on argument \texttt{x}, run \texttt{execF(f, x)}. To lift a normal JavaScript function \cd{f} into an Ur/Web JavaScript function, run \cd{flift(f)}.
adamc@897	2490 \item An Ur record is represented with a JavaScript record, where Ur field name \texttt{N} translates to JavaScript field name \texttt{\_N}. An exception to this rule is that the empty record is encoded as \texttt{null}.
adamc@897	2491 \item \texttt{option}-like types receive special handling similar to their handling in C. The ``\texttt{None}'' constructor is \texttt{null}, and a use of the ``\texttt{Some}'' constructor on a value \texttt{v} is either \texttt{v}, if the underlying type doesn't need to use \texttt{null}; or \texttt{\{v:v\}} otherwise.
adamc@985	2492 \item Any other datatypes represent a non-value-carrying constructor \texttt{C} as \texttt{"C"} and an application of a constructor \texttt{C} to value \texttt{v} as \texttt{\{n:"C", v:v\}}. This rule only applies to datatypes defined in FFI module signatures; the compiler is free to optimize the representations of other, non-\texttt{option}-like datatypes in arbitrary ways.
adam@1686	2493 \item As in the C FFI, all abstract types of program syntax are implemented with strings in JavaScript.
adam@1844	2494 \item A value of Ur type \texttt{transaction t} is represented in the same way as for \texttt{unit -> t}.
adamc@897	2495 \end{itemize}
adamc@897	2496
adam@1644	2497 It is possible to write JavaScript FFI code that interacts with the functional-reactive structure of a document. Here is a quick summary of some of the simpler functions to use; descriptions of fancier stuff may be added later on request (and such stuff should be considered ``undocumented features'' until then).
adam@1644	2498
adam@1644	2499 \begin{itemize}
adam@1644	2500 \item Sources should be treated as an abstract type, manipulated via:
adam@1644	2501 \begin{itemize}
adam@1644	2502 \item \cd{sc(v)}, to create a source initialized to \cd{v}
adam@1644	2503 \item \cd{sg(s)}, to retrieve the current value of source \cd{s}
adam@1644	2504 \item \cd{sv(s, v)}, to set source \cd{s} to value \cd{v}
adam@1644	2505 \end{itemize}
adam@1644	2506
adam@1644	2507 \item Signals should be treated as an abstract type, manipulated via:
adam@1644	2508 \begin{itemize}
adam@1644	2509 \item \cd{sr(v)} and \cd{sb(s, f)}, the ``return'' and ``bind'' monad operators, respectively
adam@1644	2510 \item \cd{ss(s)}, to produce the signal corresponding to source \cd{s}
adam@1644	2511 \item \cd{scur(s)}, to get the current value of signal \cd{s}
adam@1644	2512 \end{itemize}
adam@1644	2513
adam@1644	2514 \item The behavior of the \cd{<dyn>} pseudo-tag may be mimicked by following the right convention in a piece of HTML source code with a type like $\mt{xbody}$. Such a piece of source code may be encoded with a JavaScript string. To insert a dynamic section, include a \cd{<script>} tag whose content is just a call \cd{dyn(pnode, s)}. The argument \cd{pnode} specifies what the relevant enclosing parent tag is. Use value \cd{"tr"} when the immediate parent is \cd{<tr>}, use \cd{"table"} when the immediate parent is \cd{<table>}, and use \cd{"span"} otherwise. The argument \cd{s} is a string-valued signal giving the HTML code to be inserted at this point. As with the usual \cd{<dyn>} tag, that HTML subtree is automatically updated as the value of \cd{s} changes.
adam@1644	2515
adam@1702	2516 \item There is only one supported method of taking HTML values generated in Ur/Web code and adding them to the DOM in FFI JavaScript code: call \cd{setInnerHTML(node, html)} to add HTML content \cd{html} within DOM node \cd{node}. Merely running \cd{node.innerHTML = html} is not guaranteed to get the job done, though programmers familiar with JavaScript will probably find it useful to think of \cd{setInnerHTML} as having this effect. The unusual idiom is required because Ur/Web uses a nonstandard representation of HTML, to support infinite nesting of code that may generate code that may generate code that.... The \cd{node} value must already be in the DOM tree at the point when \cd{setInnerHTML} is called, because some plumbing must be set up to interact sensibly with \cd{<dyn>} tags.
adam@1702	2517
adam@1644	2518 \item It is possible to use the more standard ``IDs and mutation'' style of JavaScript coding, though that style is unidiomatic for Ur/Web and should be avoided wherever possible. Recall the abstract type $\mt{id}$ and its constructor $\mt{fresh}$, which can be used to generate new unique IDs in Ur/Web code. Values of this type are represented as strings in JavaScript, and a function \cd{fresh()} is available to generate new unique IDs. Application-specific ID generation schemes may cause bad interactions with Ur/Web code that also generates IDs, so the recommended approach is to produce IDs only via calls to \cd{fresh()}. FFI code shouldn't depend on the ID generation scheme (on either server side or client side), but it is safe to include these IDs in tag attributes (in either server-side or client-side code) and manipulate the associated DOM nodes in the standard way (in client-side code). Be forewarned that this kind of imperative DOM manipulation may confuse the Ur/Web runtime system and interfere with proper behavior of tags like \cd{<dyn>}!
adam@1644	2519 \end{itemize}
adamc@897	2520
adam@1833	2521 \subsection{Introducing New HTML Tags}
adam@1833	2522
adam@1833	2523 FFI modules may introduce new tags as values with $\mt{Basis.tag}$ types. See \texttt{basis.urs} for examples of how tags are declared. The identifier of a tag value is used as its rendering in HTML. The Ur/Web syntax sugar for XML literals desugars each use of a tag into a reference to an identifier with the same name. There is no need to provide implementations (i.e., in C or JavaScript code) for such identifiers.
adam@1833	2524
adam@1833	2525 The onus is on the coder of a new tag's interface to think about consequences for code injection attacks, messing with the DOM in ways that may break Ur/Web reactive programming, etc.
adam@1833	2526
adamc@897	2527
adamc@552	2528 \section{Compiler Phases}
adamc@552	2529
adamc@552	2530 The Ur/Web compiler is unconventional in that it relies on a kind of \emph{heuristic compilation}. Not all valid programs will compile successfully. Informally, programs fail to compile when they are ``too higher order.'' Compiler phases do their best to eliminate different kinds of higher order-ness, but some programs just won't compile. This is a trade-off for producing very efficient executables. Compiled Ur/Web programs use native C representations and require no garbage collection.
adamc@552	2531
adamc@552	2532 In this section, we step through the main phases of compilation, noting what consequences each phase has for effective programming.
adamc@552	2533
adamc@552	2534 \subsection{Parse}
adamc@552	2535
adamc@552	2536 The compiler reads a \texttt{.urp} file, figures out which \texttt{.urs} and \texttt{.ur} files it references, and combines them all into what is conceptually a single sequence of declarations in the core language of Section \ref{core}.
adamc@552	2537
adamc@552	2538 \subsection{Elaborate}
adamc@552	2539
adamc@552	2540 This is where type inference takes place, translating programs into an explicit form with no more wildcards. This phase is the most likely source of compiler error messages.
adamc@552	2541
adam@1378	2542 Those crawling through the compiler source will also want to be aware of another compiler phase, Explify, that occurs immediately afterward. This phase just translates from an AST language that includes unification variables to a very similar language that doesn't; all variables should have been determined by the end of Elaborate, anyway. The new AST language also drops some features that are used only for static checking and that have no influence on runtime behavior, like disjointness constraints.
adam@1378	2543
adamc@552	2544 \subsection{Unnest}
adamc@552	2545
adamc@552	2546 Named local function definitions are moved to the top level, to avoid the need to generate closures.
adamc@552	2547
adamc@552	2548 \subsection{Corify}
adamc@552	2549
adamc@552	2550 Module system features are compiled away, through inlining of functor definitions at application sites. Afterward, most abstraction boundaries are broken, facilitating optimization.
adamc@552	2551
adamc@552	2552 \subsection{Especialize}
adamc@552	2553
adam@1356	2554 Functions are specialized to particular argument patterns. This is an important trick for avoiding the need to maintain any closures at runtime. Currently, specialization only happens for prefixes of a function's full list of parameters, so you may need to take care to put arguments of function types before other arguments. The optimizer will not be effective enough if you use arguments that mix functions and values that must be calculated at run-time. For instance, a tuple of a function and an integer counter would not lead to successful code generation; these should be split into separate arguments via currying.
adamc@552	2555
adamc@552	2556 \subsection{Untangle}
adamc@552	2557
adam@1797	2558 Remove unnecessary mutual recursion, splitting recursive groups into strongly connected components.
adamc@552	2559
adamc@552	2560 \subsection{Shake}
adamc@552	2561
adamc@552	2562 Remove all definitions not needed to run the page handlers that are visible in the signature of the last module listed in the \texttt{.urp} file.
adamc@552	2563
adamc@661	2564 \subsection{Rpcify}
adamc@661	2565
adamc@661	2566 Pieces of code are determined to be client-side, server-side, neither, or both, by figuring out which standard library functions might be needed to execute them. Calls to server-side functions (e.g., $\mt{query}$) within mixed client-server code are identified and replaced with explicit remote calls. Some mixed functions may be converted to continuation-passing style to facilitate this transformation.
adamc@661	2567
adamc@661	2568 \subsection{Untangle, Shake}
adamc@661	2569
adamc@661	2570 Repeat these simplifications.
adamc@661	2571
adamc@553	2572 \subsection{\label{tag}Tag}
adamc@552	2573
adamc@552	2574 Assign a URL name to each link and form action. It is important that these links and actions are written as applications of named functions, because such names are used to generate URL patterns. A URL pattern has a name built from the full module path of the named function, followed by the function name, with all pieces separated by slashes. The path of a functor application is based on the name given to the result, rather than the path of the functor itself.
adamc@552	2575
adamc@552	2576 \subsection{Reduce}
adamc@552	2577
adamc@552	2578 Apply definitional equality rules to simplify the program as much as possible. This effectively includes inlining of every non-recursive definition.
adamc@552	2579
adamc@552	2580 \subsection{Unpoly}
adamc@552	2581
adamc@552	2582 This phase specializes polymorphic functions to the specific arguments passed to them in the program. If the program contains real polymorphic recursion, Unpoly will be insufficient to avoid later error messages about too much polymorphism.
adamc@552	2583
adamc@552	2584 \subsection{Specialize}
adamc@552	2585
adamc@558	2586 Replace uses of parameterized datatypes with versions specialized to specific parameters. As for Unpoly, this phase will not be effective enough in the presence of polymorphic recursion or other fancy uses of impredicative polymorphism.
adamc@552	2587
adamc@552	2588 \subsection{Shake}
adamc@552	2589
adamc@558	2590 Here the compiler repeats the earlier Shake phase.
adamc@552	2591
adamc@552	2592 \subsection{Monoize}
adamc@552	2593
adamc@552	2594 Programs are translated to a new intermediate language without polymorphism or non-$\mt{Type}$ constructors. Error messages may pop up here if earlier phases failed to remove such features.
adamc@552	2595
adamc@552	2596 This is the stage at which concrete names are generated for cookies, tables, and sequences. They are named following the same convention as for links and actions, based on module path information saved from earlier stages. Table and sequence names separate path elements with underscores instead of slashes, and they are prefixed by \texttt{uw\_}.
adamc@664	2597
adamc@552	2598 \subsection{MonoOpt}
adamc@552	2599
adamc@552	2600 Simple algebraic laws are applied to simplify the program, focusing especially on efficient imperative generation of HTML pages.
adamc@552	2601
adamc@552	2602 \subsection{MonoUntangle}
adamc@552	2603
adamc@552	2604 Unnecessary mutual recursion is broken up again.
adamc@552	2605
adamc@552	2606 \subsection{MonoReduce}
adamc@552	2607
adamc@552	2608 Equivalents of the definitional equality rules are applied to simplify programs, with inlining again playing a major role.
adamc@552	2609
adamc@552	2610 \subsection{MonoShake, MonoOpt}
adamc@552	2611
adamc@552	2612 Unneeded declarations are removed, and basic optimizations are repeated.
adamc@552	2613
adamc@552	2614 \subsection{Fuse}
adamc@552	2615
adamc@552	2616 The compiler tries to simplify calls to recursive functions whose results are immediately written as page output. The write action is pushed inside the function definitions to avoid allocation of intermediate results.
adamc@552	2617
adamc@552	2618 \subsection{MonoUntangle, MonoShake}
adamc@552	2619
adamc@552	2620 Fuse often creates more opportunities to remove spurious mutual recursion.
adamc@552	2621
adamc@552	2622 \subsection{Pathcheck}
adamc@552	2623
adamc@552	2624 The compiler checks that no link or action name has been used more than once.
adamc@552	2625
adamc@552	2626 \subsection{Cjrize}
adamc@552	2627
adamc@552	2628 The program is translated to what is more or less a subset of C. If any use of functions as data remains at this point, the compiler will complain.
adamc@552	2629
adamc@552	2630 \subsection{C Compilation and Linking}
adamc@552	2631
adam@1523	2632 The output of the last phase is pretty-printed as C source code and passed to the C compiler.
adamc@552	2633
adamc@552	2634
as@1564	2635 \end{document}

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