On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 17:24:49 +, Simon Cozens wrote:
>I really *would* recommend Aho, Sethi, Ullman, "Compilers: Principles,
>Techniques and Tools".
AKA "The Dragon Book". You're not the only one to mention this book on
this list.
IMO, this book is really thick to crawl through, and in the e
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000 14:15:57 -0500, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>>We bootstrap on perl5 to get a bytecode stream, and then that bytecode
>>stream had better stay supported.
>
>Yup. It's one way to ensure backwards compatibility... :)
I assume a byte is still 8 bits? So you have a max of 256 different (1
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:11:50 -0700 (MST), Nathan Torkington wrote:
>I think the problems with this that were raised in the past are:
> * parsing partial source
> * does this mean that the parser has to reparse the whole sourcefile
> every time you type a character?
Hold it. I don't think that
