Questions tagged [crafting-interpreters]
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How do I make iterating over a vector on a struct via self mutable and use that mutable reference later?
I'm trying to iterate over a vector of statements and match (or double match) the results from evaluating them. I think the root cause of my error is the immutable borrow from iterating: for stmt in &self.statements
I'm totally fine changing my…
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persistent constant values - Crafting Interpreters
I am reading the "Crafting Interpreters" by Bob Nystrom on chapter 26 Garbage Collection. On the first page, he says with the following example:
var a = "first value";
a = "updated";
// GC here.
print a;
Say we run the GC after the assignment has…
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Compile-time storage of function objects for multiple-pass compilers
I am reading the famous book Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom and I am on chapter-24 Calls and Functions. He builds a single-pass compiler in which functions need to be declared before usage so having function objects holding the same status as…
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How compile time local array index is same as runtime time stack index
I am reading from Book Crafting Interpreters by Bob Nystrom. I am on chapter 22-Local Variable in which under the section Using Locals he said
"At runtime, we load and store locals using the stack slot index, so that’s what the compiler needs to…
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Why the compiler is generating errors which aren't errors at all
I was trying to write my own VM implementation in C++ from the excellent book Crafting Interpreters.
The book builds a stack based virtual machine, of which I am writing a C++ version
So here is the code where the compiler is yelling at…
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Mimicking CraftingInterpeter's BINARY_OP macro
Came across this while trying to follow the excellent Crafting Interpreters book but using Rust instead of C.
The book builds a stack based virtual machine, of which I have a simple Rust version that looks something like:
struct VM {
stack:…
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