require "metalua.walk"

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-- * [loop_tags] are the tags of statements which support continue.
-- * [loop_keywords] are the initial keywords which trigger the parsing
--   of these statements: they're indeed indexed by keyword in [mlp.stat].
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local loop_tags = table.transpose{ "Forin", "Fornum", "While", "Repeat" }
local loop_keywords = { "for", "while", "repeat" }

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-- This function takes the AST of a continue-enabled loop, parse
-- its body to find all instances of [`Continue]. If any of them
-- is found ([label~=nil]), they're transformed in [`Goto{...}], and
-- the corresponding label is added at the end of the loop's body.
--
-- Caveat: if a [continue] appears in the non-body part of a loop
-- (and therefore is relative to some enclosing loop), it isn't
-- handled, and therefore causes a compilation error. This could
-- only happen due in a [`Stat{ }], however, since [`Function{ }]
-- cuts the search for [`Continue].
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local function loop_transformer (ast)
   local label
   local cfg = { stat = { }; expr = { } }

   function cfg.stat.down (x)
      if loop_tags[x.tag] then return 'break'
      elseif x.tag=='Continue' then
         if not label then label = mlp.gensym 'continue' end
         x <- `Goto{ label }
      end
   end

   function cfg.expr.down (x)
      return x.tag=='Function' and 'break'
   end

   local loop_body = ast.tag=="Repeat" and ast[1] or ast[#ast]
   walk.block (cfg, loop_body)
   if label then table.insert (loop_body, `Label{ label }) end
end

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-- Register the transformer for each kind of loop:
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for keyword in values (loop_keywords) do
   mlp.stat:get(keyword).transformers:add (loop_transformer)
end

mlp.lexer:add "continue"
mlp.stat:add{ "continue", builder = ||`Continue }