Marking

• This assignment will be worth 4% of your final grade.
• You will be marked on the last version pushed to coursegit. Make sure you have pushed your assignment by 4:30PM on Friday October 20.

• You will be marked on

  correctness and implementation detail

  Pay attention to the way you are asked to implement things.

  functional JavaScript

  Part of the point of the assignment is to see that a certain tasks can be accomplished in a very similar way in JavaScript as in Racket. So don't go crazy with mutation.

  testing

  Remember to have full test coverage (according to c8).

• For detailed marking scheme, see javascript-assignment.

Background

• This assignment is mainly based on Chapters 3 and 4 of Eloquent JavaScript.
• We also make extensive use of const; it turns out this is not enough to prevent modifying objects. For more details see MDN
• You will need to add the following lines to the top of your file to enable the test framework:

const test=require("node:test");
const assert=require("assert");

What to hand in, and how to hand it in

• Make a directory ~/cs2613/assigments/A3 (i.e. in your git repo for this class). All files related to this assignment should be saved in that directory.
• Make sure you commit and push all your work using coursegit before 16:30 on Friday October 20

expression function

Conceptually expression is like one of the make-thing functions defined for Racket structs. It takes an ordered list of parameters, and returns an object allowing access to those same values by name. You can also think of it as a constructor, although we will see that constructors in JavaScript typically do more.

Your expression function should pass the following tests

const one = expression("+",0,1);
test("not null", (t) => assert.notStrictEqual(one,null));
test("not undefined", (t) => assert.notStrictEqual(one,undefined));
test("op", (t) => assert.strictEqual(one.op, "+"));
test("left", (t) => assert.strictEqual(one.left,0));
test("right", (t) => assert.strictEqual(one.right,1));
test('object',
     (t)=>assert.deepStrictEqual(expression('+',6,7),
                                 {op: '+', left: 6, right: 7}));

eval function

The eval function returns the number equivalent to the given object without modifying the input object. Your eval function should pass the following tests, and use recursion to do the actual evaluation.

const six_plus_nine = expression('+', 6, 9);
test("+", (t) => assert.strictEqual(eval(six_plus_nine),15));

const six_times_nine = expression('*', 6, 9);
const six_minus_nine = expression('-', 6, 9);
const sixteen_div_eight = expression('/', 16, 8);
const compound1 = expression('+', six_times_nine, six_plus_nine)
const compound2 = expression('*', six_times_nine, compound1)
const compound3 = expression('+', compound2, 3)
test("compound1", (t) => assert.strictEqual(eval(compound1),69));
test("compound2", (t) => assert.strictEqual(eval(compound2),3726));
test("compound3", (t) => assert.strictEqual(eval(compound3),3729));

clone_expression function

Write a function clone_expression to do a deep copy of an object created by expression. Use recursion, not a library function.

Your clone_expression function should pass the following tests

test("structural equality", function(t) {
    const copy3=clone_expression(compound3);
    assert.deepStrictEqual(compound3,copy3);
});

test("independence",
     function(t) {
         const copy4=clone_expression(compound2);
         copy4.op='-';
         assert.notDeepStrictEqual(compound2,copy4);
     });

test("immutability", function(t) {
    const copy5=clone_expression(compound3);
    const val = eval(compound3);
    assert.deepStrictEqual(compound3,copy5);
})