Hi Seo,
On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 09:32 +0900, Sanghyeon Seo wrote:
> 2006/5/3, Armin Rigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >Let's consider Javascript (the same argument applies to any interpreted
> >language): to write an interpreter, some people focus on the task of
> >compiling, say, Javascript source code to get an AST; this is only part
> >of the job, and it should be the shortest part -- ideally, finding an
> >existing parser would be best, otherwise plugging one together with
> >existing tools shouldn't take too long for a regular language like
> >Javascript.
>
> Sadly, parsing Javascript is unnecessarily difficult because of
> optional semicolon insertion. Best to look at existing parsers.
IMO for a SoC project it would be ok to have a stricter parser.
Having javascript programs running on top of PyPy (JsPy or whatever :)
being able to run unmodified on other javascript
interpreters would be interesting enough. And such an approach
would still have the advantages that Armin points out.
best,
holger
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