Try Adding a Program Transformation Engine to AlphaZ

[ryanjob42]

There are a handful of transformations (e.g., Normalize) which could be implemented via a rule-based transformation engine. This would help reduce the number of implementation errors, null reference exceptions, etc.

Eclipse Henshin (see link below) is a project which is/was supposed to support this (although it hasn't been maintained in a while).

https://wiki.eclipse.org/Henshin

To verify if this works, we'd need to:

1. Use it to successfully implement some rewrite rules (e.g., replace Normalize)
2. Create documentation on how to use it

[rajopadhye]

Interesting. Riley suggested that we remove the dependence on TOM.

Pros: elegant, provable, reduced programmer effort

Cons: dependency on an external package