Mike Gerwitz
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This represents a significant departure from how the XSLT-based TAME handles the `@values@` param, but it will end up having the same effect. It builds upon prior work, utilizing the fact that referencing a template in TAMER will expand it. The problem is this: allowing trees in `Meta` would add yet another container; we have `Pkg` and `Tpl` already. This was the same problem with template application---I didn't want to add support for binding arguments separately, and so re-used templates themselves, reaching the generalization I just mentioned above. `Meta` is intended to be a lexical metasyntatic variable. That keeps its implementation quite simple. But if we start allowing trees, that gets rather complicated really quickly, and starts to require much more complex AIR parser state. But we can accomplish the same behavior by desugaring into an existing container---a template---and placing the body within it. Then, in the future, we'll parse `param-copy` into a simple `Air::RefIdent`, which will expand the closed template and produce the same result as it does today in the XSLT-based system. This leaves open issues of closure (variable binding) in complex scenarios, such as in templates that introduce metavariables to be utilized by the body. That's never a practice I liked, but we'll see how things evolve. Further, this does not yet handle nested template applications. But this saved me a ton of work. Desugaring is much simpler. The question is going to be how the XSLT-based compiler responds to this for large packages with thousands of template applications. I'll have to see if it's worth the hit at that time, or if we should inline it when generating the `xmli` file, producing the same `@values@` as before. But as it stands at this moment, the output is _not_ compatible with the current compiler, as it expects `@values@` to be a tree, so a modification would have to be made there. DEV-13708 |
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README.md
TAME
TAME is The Algebraic Metalanguage, a programming language and system of tools designed to aid in the development, understanding, and maintenance of systems performing numerous calculations on a complex graph of dependencies, conditions, and a large number of inputs.
This system was developed at Ryan Specialty Group (formerly LoVullo Associates) to handle the complexity of comparative insurance rating systems. It is a domain-specific language (DSL) that itself encourages, through the use of templates, the creation of sub-DSLs. TAME itself is at heart a calculator—processing only numerical input and output—driven by quantifiers as predicates. Calculations and quantifiers are written declaratively without concern for order of execution.
The system has powerful dependency resolution and data flow capabilities.
TAME consists of a macro processor (implementing a metalanguage), numerous compilers for various targets (JavaScript, HTML documentation and debugging environment, LaTeX, and others), linkers, and supporting tools. The input grammar is XML, and the majority of the project (including the macro processor, compilers, and linkers) is written in a combination of XSLT and Rust.
TAMER
Due to performance requirements, this project is currently being reimplemented in Rust. That project can be found in the tamer/ directory.
Documentation
Compiled documentation for the latest release is available via our GitLab mirror, which uses the same build pipeline as we do on our internal GitLab instance. Available formats are:
Getting Started
To get started, make sure Saxon version 9 or later is available and its path
set as SAXON_CP; that the path to hoxsl is set via HOXSL; and then run
the bootstrap script:
$ export SAXON_CP=/path/to/saxon9he.jar
$ export HOXSL=/path/to/hoxsl/root
$ ./boostrap
Running Test Cases
To run the test cases, invoke make check (or its alias, make test).
Testing Core Features
In order to run tests located at core/test/core/**, a supporting environment
is required. (e.g. mega rater). Inside a supporting rater, either check out a
submodule containing the core tests, or temporarily add them into the
submodule.
Build the core test suite summary page using:
$ make rater/core/test/core/suite.html
Visit the summary page in a web browser and click the Calculate Premium button. If all test cases pass, it will yield a value of $1.
Hacking
Information for TAME developers can be found in the file HACKING.
License
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.