• FeepingCreature <default_357-line yahoo.de> Jul 23 2010
• bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> Jul 23 2010
• FeepingCreature <default_357-line yahoo.de> Jul 23 2010

FeepingCreature <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:

I've worked on it on and off over the last few months, and with the addition of
classes and the 5000 lines milestone, I thought I'd get some early feedback.

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/csxd6/fcc_01_is_a_compiler_for_a_si
ple_clike_language/ 0.1 release reddit announcement.

The ultimate intent is to support a high degree of syntactical flexibility via
compile-time plugins; the goal for 0.2 is to rewrite the compiler in the
language itself and redesign the object system to support plugins.

The compiler is written in D1/phobos/tools and compiles to assembly; using GNU
binutils for binary generation. Only Linux/x86-32 is currently supported.

Feedback appreciated!

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

FeepingCreature:
 Feedback appreciated!


I looks cute. It can be useful for to invent and test possible designs for
D2/D3, for example to test and try alternative designs for ASM macros that may
be added to D3.

Bye,
bearophile

FeepingCreature <default_357-line yahoo.de> writes:

On 24.07.2010 02:53, bearophile wrote:
 FeepingCreature:
 Feedback appreciated!


 I looks cute. It can be useful for to invent and test possible designs for
D2/D3, for example to test and try alternative designs for ASM macros that may
be added to D3.
 
 Bye,
 bearophile


The reason that AST macros are hairy in any language but Lisp is that you have
this complicated syntax, so to expose it to the program requires you to add
equivalents for all the compiler's classes, functions and data structures to
your macro language. I hope to sidestep this by eventually rewriting the
compiler in the language itself, so that I can expose compiler internals
_directly_.