From 1958cda6bcbdf3f06063252acb53f28464c55f47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bart=C5=82omiej=20Przemys=C5=82aw=20Pluta?=
 <the.orleander@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:09:56 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Updated Application overview (markdown)

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@@ -279,4 +279,76 @@ The `tryToEvaluate()` method contains the actually logic of evaluation, and in t
 3. evaluates the `trueBranchNode` if the value is evaluated to `true`
 4. if the condition is evaluated to `false`, it checks if `falseBranchNode` (that comes from `else` clause) is present. If so, it's being evaluated.
 
-All evaluator-related code is located in `io.smnp.evaluation` package.
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+All evaluator-related code is located in `io.smnp.evaluation` package.
+
+## Interpreter
+`Interpreter` actually isn't an another language processing
+stage, rather it is a facade that composes each stage into single pipeline,
+accepting a raw SMNP code as an input. 
+It also accepts additional parameters, like `printTokens`, `printAst` and `dryRun`.
+
+So far, SMNP provides two types of interpreters:
+* `LanguageModuleInterpreter` (with its implementation: `DefaultLanguageModuleInterpreter`) and is used only by _Language Module Providers_ and _Hybrid Module Providers_.
+* `DefaultInterpreter` which is the standard interpreter that is used for user's input (in form of both scripts and inline code snippets).
+
+The difference between these two interpreters is the `LanguageModuleInterpreter` does support only definitions of functions and methods at the top level of script (technically, in `RootNode`), whereas the `DefaultInterpreter` allows you to have each available statement at the top level of script.
+
+Following snippets shows the code of `DefaultInterpreter`:
+```kotlin
+class DefaultInterpreter  {
+   private val tokenizer = DefaultTokenizer()
+   private val parser = RootParser()
+   private val evaluator = RootEvaluator()
+
+   fun run(
+      code: String,
+      environment: Environment = DefaultEnvironment(),
+      printTokens: Boolean = false,
+      printAst: Boolean = false,
+      dryRun: Boolean = false
+   ): Environment {
+      val lines = code.split("\n")
+      return run(lines, "<inline>", environment, printTokens, printAst, dryRun)
+   }
+
+   fun run(
+      file: File,
+      environment: Environment = DefaultEnvironment(),
+      printTokens: Boolean = false,
+      printAst: Boolean = false,
+      dryRun: Boolean = false
+   ): Environment {
+      val lines = file.readLines()
+      return run(lines, file.canonicalPath, environment, printTokens, printAst, dryRun)
+   }
+
+   private fun run(
+      lines: List<String>,
+      source: String,
+      environment: Environment,
+      printTokens: Boolean,
+      printAst: Boolean,
+      dryRun: Boolean
+   ): Environment {
+      environment.loadModule("smnp.lang")
+
+      val tokens = tokenizer.tokenize(lines, source)
+      if (printTokens) println(tokens)
+
+      val ast = parser.parse(tokens)
+      if (printAst) ast.node.pretty()
+
+      if (!dryRun) {
+         val result = evaluator.evaluate(ast.node, environment)
+
+         if (result.result == EvaluationResult.FAILED) {
+            throw RuntimeException("Evaluation failed")
+         }
+      }
+
+      return environment
+   }
+}
+```
+
+You can think of `DefaultInterpreter` as an endpoint for `core` module that is ready to be used by `app` module or any other application willing to make use of SMNP.
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