Tech Talk: Compiling to Bytecode with Thorsten Ball
CoRecursive: Coding Stories
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The Front End of a Compiler
To do like the true literate code, you want to be able to introduce things in the order that makes sense to the xac to the reader. That is actually really hard and i've revised several chapters of the book when it seems like a simple feature that i can build in chapter two. I like, you need to have everything built on top of the other thing. And then at the end the compiler comes out. So instead of working with characters, you work with tokens. Instead of having the single characters, get rid of all the wide space and stuff like this, like a vew. The front end takes in tasocot, a string, or a file full
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