Drasil Research Group Meeting, 3pm, Monday July 15, 2024, ITB/225

[smiths]

0. Introduction of Xinlu
1. Add Sets #3846 (@NoahCardoso)
2. Local scope in Julia #3821 (tentative, since @JacquesCarette will be absent) (@B-rando1)
3. Deciding on which prototype to proceed with (Rendering assets in mdBook #3835 (comment)). (@BilalM04)
4. Discussion on the structure of the Makefile (Generating an mdBook-based variant of the SRS - UPDATED #3823 (comment)). (@BilalM04)
5. Status of previous work on testing projectile motion? Verification and validation plan? (@samm82)
6. Discuss TT candidates in future meetings

Regrets: @JacquesCarette

[smiths]

@NoahCardoso, @B-rando1 and @BilalM04, please add your weekly summaries at the end of this week.

[B-rando1]

Weekly Summary

• I spent the most time separating GOOL into its OO, Procedural, and Common components, as was logged in this thread. As of now the interface is fully separated. Next steps are to split drasil-gool into different packages to avoid name conflicts, convert the Julia renderer to the new set of typeclasses, and enable drasil-code to use the new typeclasses. This will still be a lot of work, but progress is going well.
• I spent some time updating the Julia renderer to only use functionality that will be in v1 of the generic procedural language. There were a few implementations I had to change to avoid using OO functionality, but on the whole it was simple enough.
• I spent some more time on Local scope in Julia #3821. I successfully added a Scope (i.e. global vs local) parameter to variables and constants, but then I got a bit stuck, so I haven't worked on it in the last few days. The problem is that different languages have different ideas about what scopes are global vs local. For example, in Python, Swift, and Julia, the main function is a script that exists in the global scope, while in Java, C#, and C++, the main function is a function that has its own local scope. There may be other peculiarities down the road too, it's hard to say. Our current idea is to be a bit more granular than local and global, and instead give information about the type of body the variable is tied to, e.g. global, main, function, loop, etc., and let each renderer decide what to do with that information. I think this will be enough, but I'm still wrapping my head around what will all be involved.

Blockers/Agenda

I'd say that #3821 is what I'm most stuck on. I'd like to have a better plan for where I'm going with this, as I really don't know how we'll actually use the new part of the API to add global keywords in the Julia renderer. This might be difficult without @JacquesCarette though, so it might not be worth discussing the meeting. I'll think about it more today, and see if we can get a bit further. The good news is that we can keep going on Julia without this being fixed, as the situations where we need the global keyword are somewhat specific. What we'll really need it for is when we get the 'straight-shot, no functions' generator option.

[BilalM04]

Weekly Summary

• Generating an mdBook-based variant of the SRS - UPDATED #3823.
  • Made minor changes, addressed comments and requested changes in the PR.
• Developed prototypes for rendering assets in mdBook. Detailed in Rendering assets in mdBook #3835 (comment).
  • CSV approach demonstrated in mdBook Assets - CSV Approach #3848.
  • Makefile approach demonstrated in mdBook Assets - Generated Makefile Approach #3847.
• Shellcheck scripts in Lint workflow #3664
  • Added ShellCheck to the Linter workflow.
  • Implemented the suggestions from ShellCheck.
  • Added ShellCheck to Makefile and Wiki.

Blockers / Agenda

• Deciding on which prototype to proceed with (Rendering assets in mdBook #3835 (comment)). Shouldn't be a long discussion or it can be done in the discussion post.
• Discussion on the structure of the Makefile (Generating an mdBook-based variant of the SRS - UPDATED #3823 (comment)).

The assets are the last remaining item for #3722. After the PRs for that ticket are merged in, we can start hosting on the website.

[NoahCardoso]

Summary

• I have spent most of my time this week working on Add back OneOf Value constraints #2655, I have got sets working in Expr and adding new constraints. This is what I have currently. Add Sets #3846. I have just started working on adding sets to GOOL. @B-rando1 has been helping me to better understand how to add sets to GOOL.
  

• Order of eNames' #3828, After Monday's meeting I looked more into ordering alphabetically by the symbol for Switch some lists to Set from containers #3761. However, I have not worked on this issue as I have spent most of my time with the above issue.

[smiths]

Thank you for the weekly updates. Very helpful! I've updated the agenda accordingly.

[smiths]

All agenda items were covered.