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Build Your Own Programming Language

You're reading from   Build Your Own Programming Language A programmer's guide to designing compilers, interpreters, and DSLs for modern computing problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804618028
Length 556 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Clinton  L. Jeffery Clinton L. Jeffery
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Table of Contents (27) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Section I: Programming Language Frontends
2. Why Build Another Programming Language? FREE CHAPTER 3. Programming Language Design 4. Scanning Source Code 5. Parsing 6. Syntax Trees 7. Section II: Syntax Tree Traversals
8. Symbol Tables 9. Checking Base Types 10. Checking Types on Arrays, Method Calls, and Structure Accesses 11. Intermediate Code Generation 12. Syntax Coloring in an IDE 13. Section III: Code Generation and Runtime Systems
14. Preprocessors and Transpilers 15. Bytecode Interpreters 16. Generating Bytecode 17. Native Code Generation 18. Implementing Operators and Built-In Functions 19. Domain Control Structures 20. Garbage Collection 21. Final Thoughts 22. Section IV: Appendix
23. Answers
24. Other Books You May Enjoy
25. Index
Appendix: Unicon Essentials

Questions

  1. A significant percentage of the population are partly or completely colorblind. How might you provide colorblind individuals with the same benefits that colors provide in this chapter?
  2. Reparsing code to look for syntax errors whenever the user moves the cursor to a different line might be too often, or it might not be often enough. Can you suggest a better criterion for how often to reparse the code?
  3. Suppose you want to add syntactic nesting information so that a user can visually tell which blocks of code are nested within which other blocks. Is there a way that you can add this information to the IDE in addition to the color-coding presented in this chapter? How might you go about that?

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