source: CIVL/notes/civlc.txt@ af8a6cb

The CIVL-C code will not have an explicit "Root" procedure.
Instead, a Root procedure will be implicitly wrapped around
the enitre code.   The global input variables will become
the inputs to the Root procedure.

Syntactic changes from C:

_input int n; // type modifier: global variable is input
_output double y; // ditto

function definitions in any scope

_spawn f(...);  /* this is an expression with side-effects */

_wait expr; /* this is a statement */

_assert expr; /* statement */

_assume expr; /* statement */

_when (expr) stmt; /* guarded command */

/* nondeterministic choice: */
_choose {
  stmt1;
  stmt2;
  ...
  default: stmt
}

the "default" clause is optional.

example: this shows how to encode "low-level" CIVL:

l1: _choose {
  _when (x>0) {x--; goto l2;}
  _when (x==0) {y=1; goto l3;}
  default: {z=1; goto l4;}
}

loop invariants: each loop construct has an optional invariant
clause as follows:

while (expr) _invariant (expr) stmt

for (e1; e2; e3) _invariant (expr) stmt

do stmt while (expr) _invariant (expr) ;

optional elements preceding procedure decls:

requires expr ;
ensures expr ;

expressions:
  expr@x : refer to variable in other process, e.g., procs[i]@x
  \collective(array-expression) e : collective assertion over
    set of processes in array
  
example:

_proc procs[N];
...
assert \collective(procs) i==procs[pid+1]@i ;

Elements not added to grammar:

_proc : process type
_self : constant of type _proc indicating "me"