go-lox

a personal go implementation of the lox interpreter from crafting interpreters by robert nystrom.

current progress on what I've learnt so far

built for learning, not for production.

current read: chapter 11

a peak interest in practicing go whilst revisiting the concepts of compilers and interpreters

what works so far

scanning - tokenizes lox source into tokens (strings, numbers, keywords, operators)
parsing - recursive descent parser that builds an AST from tokens
evaluating - tree-walk interpreter that executes the AST
variables - var declarations, assignment, block scoping with { }
control flow - if/else, while, for loops, logical and/or
functions - first-class functions, closures, recursion, return
static analysis - resolver pass for correct scope binding + compile-time error detection
native functions - clock() bridging go to lox
extras - % modulo operator, comma expressions

# run a file
go run main.go test/phase4.lox

# or the repl
go run main.go