The Pizza Compiler

The Pizza language is an extension to Java with three new features:
- Generics (aka Parametric polymorphism)
- Function pointers (aka First-class functions)
- Class cases and pattern matching (aka Algebraic types)

Pizza and Java FAQ

 

 

 

How can I generate Java code as the output of the compiler, rather than class files?   Use the -s option to translate the given Pizza sources into the equivalent .java files, which the compiler will place in the class directories.
Using the Java reflection API, I can find the names, types and values of object fields at runtime. What happens when the fields have function types or other Pizza types?   Currently, reflection on Pizza types returns nothing meaningful - Pizza mangles its type names rather severely. The compiler was developed before we knew about the the reflection API. A future release of the compiler will be non-mangling, and at that time we will document the protocols for the debugging and reflection API's.
I'd like to use Pizza to generate abstract syntax trees (AST's) for Java programs. Is there a compiler switch that will output AST's? If not, how can I access the them?   The Pizza Compiler generates AST's internally but does not support any output format for AST's. Using the compiler source code, you can operate on the AST data structures directly. However, the structures are fairly complicated, and would require a fair understanding of compiler construction in general.
When I compile my Pizza code into
Java, I see several lines of the type throw new Error(); // inserted for safety. What kind of error do they indicate?
  These statements are inserted during the translation of pattern matching. The compiler translates the (arbitrarily deep) switch statements into single-level tests. These tests should be exhaustive, but just to be certain, these lines are inserted as a default to catch a miss by all of the cases.

It is possible to cause one of these errors by creating a subclass of an algebraic data type. If your program raises one of these errors otherwise, it could be an error in the compiler, so please file a bug report.