Compiler technology is one of my hobbies, most recently satisfied with my project to write a series of post of how to write a (Ruby) compiler in Ruby. Since I really like Ruby, it's natural that I've done a fair amount of thinking about compiling Ruby, and what the problems ...
Yeah, I know, it's a long time since the last part. That doesn't mean things have stopped, though I've been extremely busy.
As always, if you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look at the series.
To see what I've been up to, take a look at the Github ...
The code as at the end of this part is available here.
A while back I wrote a post about writing a simple operator precedence ...
The code as at the end of this part can be found here
I won't promise to keep up the posting frequency I've kept over the last week or so, but here's a tiny little part showing the next step. This time we're getting rid of "let". Well, sort of. I won't ...
From now on I'm not going to cover every little change - too much of it is repetitive, but I'll keep posting parts of this series to cover major changes. If you want to keep track of the changes "blow by blow", Read more
The time has come. All the previous parts to this series were mostly written a long time ago, but went through various cleanups. I originally said I had 20 lines up, but as I went through them many were consolidated into larger ones. This is the first ...
The C way handles variable length arguments is to let the caller push as much as they'd like onto the stack. It's then up to the callee to make sure they don't access too much, and there's really no way for the C function to know how ...
If you're following my compiler series you can now find a github repository here. For now I've just added the code published so far, but when I reach the end of the already written material I'll start making more fine grained commits.
Fork away :)
It's been a few months, and apart from my side step into parser land I haven't had much time to keep posting this series, in part because of work, and part because of repeated illness that after being poked and prodded and x-rayed and being subjected to ultrasound (no, I'm not ...