{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/l-flat-logtalk-toolkit-for-formal-languages","title":"L-FLAT: Logtalk Toolkit for Formal Languages and Automata Theory","arxiv_id":"1112.3783","date":"2011-12-16","proceeding":null,"authors":["Paulo Moura","Artur Miguel Dias"],"abstract":"We describe L-FLAT, a Logtalk Toolkit for teaching Formal Languages and Automata Theory. L-FLAT supports the definition of \\textsl{alphabets}, the definition of \\textsl{orders} over alphabet symbols, the partial definition of \\textsl{languages} using unit tests, and the definition of \\textsl{mechanisms}, which implement language generators or language recognizers. Supported mechanisms include \\textsl{predicates}, \\textsl{regular expressions}, \\textsl{finite automata}, \\textsl{context-free grammars}, \\textsl{Turing machines}, and \\textsl{push-down automata}. L-FLAT entities are implemented using the object-oriented features of Logtalk, providing a highly portable and easily extendable framework. The use of L-FLAT in educational environments is enhanced by supporting Mooshak, a web application that features automatic grading of submitted programs.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.3783v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1112.3783v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"links_only","authors_date_abstract":"arXiv metadata, CC0 1.0 (https://info.arxiv.org/help/license), from the Kaggle arXiv metadata snapshot of 2026-09-12"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"l-flat-logtalk-toolkit-for-formal-languages","repo_url":"https://github.com/l-flat/lflat","is_official":0,"mentioned_in_paper":0,"mentioned_in_github":1,"framework":"none","reach":null}],"tasks":[],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}