wycliffb

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   by wycliffb 8y ago

   > would recommend looking into writing a grammar, have that generate your AST, then do some transformations on the AST to generate code. you will save a lot of time. I had this thought, so I used a parser combinator (mpc) to generate the
2. 32.▲
   by wycliffb 8y ago

   You might find Types and programming languages - Benjamin C. Pierce to be particularly interesting. There's a GitHub repo with a list of materials, can't seem to find it. When I do, will remember to share!
3. 33.▲
   by wycliffb 8y ago

   Will commence working on a doc to explain some design choices, and what some non-obvious code fragments do; will update here when I commit. There's no subtyping being done currently. The 'match type' construct matches the typ
4. 34.▲
   by wycliffb 8y ago

   There's a sample file main.w in the snapshot folder, there's also a grammar file at the source root.
5. 35.▲
   by wycliffb 8y ago

   Will appreciate comments on the implementation/design choices.
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   Show HN: Whack – A simply-designed compiled programming language(github.com)

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