Making A Compiler

Introduction

This page is how someone went about build a compiler and is here for reference

Steps

• Write example file
• Read contents of file
• Parse Lines
• Parse Tokens in
• Decide on Node Types
• Decide what AST should look like
• Create Nodes

Things I learnt

Typical Flow Control

• Jump goto, while, functions
• Conditional (if/then/else)
• Early Exit (break, continue, skip)
• Exception handling (try/throw/catch)
• Lazy evaluation (delay/force)
• Threading (thread create,stop, yield)
• Generator (yield)