Improve help messages and reorganize encode_tree and encode_net m…

…ethods.

src/host.rs

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ use std::{
   ops::{Deref, DerefMut, RangeFrom},
 };
 
+pub mod encode;
+
 /// Stores a bidirectional mapping between names and runtime defs.
 #[derive(Default)]
 pub struct Host {

src/encode.rs → src/host/encode.rs

@@ -9,6 +9,24 @@ use crate::{
   run::{self, Mode, Port, Trg},
 };
 
+impl Host {
+  /// Encode a tree `tree` directly into a port or wire `trg`, skipping the intermediate `Def` representation
+  pub fn encode_tree<M: Mode>(&self, net: &mut run::Net<M>, trg: Trg, tree: &Tree) {
+    EncodeState { host: self, net, vars: Default::default() }.encode(trg, tree);
+  }
+  /// Encode the root of `ast_net` directly into `trg` and encode its redexes into `net` redex list.
+  pub fn encode_net<M: Mode>(&self, net: &mut run::Net<M>, trg: Trg, ast_net: &Net) {
+    let mut state = EncodeState { host: self, net, vars: Default::default() };
+    for (l, r) in &ast_net.rdex {
+      let (ap, a, bp, b) = state.net.do_wires();
+      state.encode(ap, l);
+      state.encode(bp, r);
+      state.net.link_trg(a, b);
+    }
+    state.encode(trg, &ast_net.root);
+  }
+}
+
 struct EncodeState<'c, 'n, M: Mode> {
   host: &'c Host,
   net: &'c mut run::Net<'n, M>,
@@ -49,19 +67,3 @@ impl<'c, 'n, M: Mode> EncodeState<'c, 'n, M> {
     }
   }
 }
-
-impl Host {
-  pub fn encode_tree<M: Mode>(&self, net: &mut run::Net<M>, trg: Trg, tree: &Tree) {
-    EncodeState { host: self, net, vars: Default::default() }.encode(trg, tree);
-  }
-  pub fn encode_net<M: Mode>(&self, net: &mut run::Net<M>, trg: Trg, ast_net: &Net) {
-    let mut state = EncodeState { host: self, net, vars: Default::default() };
-    for (l, r) in &ast_net.rdex {
-      let (ap, a, bp, b) = state.net.do_wires();
-      state.encode(ap, l);
-      state.encode(bp, r);
-      state.net.link_trg(a, b);
-    }
-    state.encode(trg, &ast_net.root);
-  }
-}

src/lib.rs

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 
 pub mod ast;
 pub mod compile;
-pub mod encode;
 pub mod host;
 pub mod ops;
 pub mod run;

src/main.rs

@@ -49,8 +49,16 @@ fn main() {
 }
 
 #[derive(Parser, Debug)]
-#[command(author, version)]
-/// A massively parallel Interaction Combinator evaluator
+#[command(author, version, about = "A massively parallel Interaction Combinator evaluator",
+  long_about = r##"
+A massively parallel Interaction Combinator evaluator
+
+Examples: 
+$ hvmc run examples/church_encoding/church.hvm
+$ hvmc run tests/programs/addition.hvmc "#16" "#3"
+$ hvmc compile tests/programs/addition.hvmc
+$ hvmc reduce tests/programs/addition.hvmc -- "a & @mul ~ (#3 (#4 a))"
+$ hvmc reduce -- "a & #3 ~ <* #4 a>""##)]
 struct FullCli {
   #[command(subcommand)]
   pub mode: CliMode,
@@ -90,6 +98,7 @@ struct RuntimeOpts {
 #[derive(Args, Clone, Debug)]
 struct RunArgs {
   #[arg(short = 'e', default_value = "main")]
+  /// Name of the definition that will get reduced
   entry_point: String,
   /// List of arguments to pass to the program
   ///
@@ -108,7 +117,7 @@ enum CliMode {
     /// hvm-core file to compile
     file: String,
   },
-  /// Run a program, optionally passing a set of arguments into it.
+  /// Run a program, optionally passing a list of arguments to it.
   Run {
     #[command(flatten)]
     opts: RuntimeOpts,
@@ -250,7 +259,7 @@ fn compile_executable(file_name: &str, host: &host::Host) -> Result<(), io::Erro
   fs::write(".hvm/Cargo.toml", cargo_toml)?;
   fs::write(".hvm/src/ast.rs", include_str!("../src/ast.rs"))?;
   fs::write(".hvm/src/compile.rs", include_str!("../src/compile.rs"))?;
-  fs::write(".hvm/src/encode.rs", include_str!("../src/encode.rs"))?;
+  fs::write(".hvm/src/host/encode.rs", include_str!("../src/host/encode.rs"))?;
   fs::write(".hvm/src/fuzz.rs", include_str!("../src/fuzz.rs"))?;
   fs::write(".hvm/src/host.rs", include_str!("../src/host.rs"))?;
   fs::write(".hvm/src/lib.rs", include_str!("../src/lib.rs"))?;