#lexing — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lexing, aggregated by home.social.
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A nice survey of #ProgrammingLanguages that allow you to omit semicolons:
“No Semicolons Needed”, Terts Diepraam (https://terts.dev/blog/no-semicolons-needed/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47470200
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/09wmcz/no_semicolons_needed
#Programming #PLDI #Parsing #Lexing #Syntax #Grammar #Compilers
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Why #Lexing and #Parsing Should Be Separate
"Summary: Do the easy thing with the fast algorithm, and the hard thing with the slow algorithm. Lexing and parsing are different things."
https://github.com/oils-for-unix/oils/wiki/Why-Lexing-and-Parsing-Should-Be-Separate
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Love 😍 such articles that cover a topic in depth:
“Modern Perfect Hashing For Strings” [2023], Wojciech Muła (http://0x80.pl/notesen/2023-04-30-lookup-in-strings.html).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35764176
#Hashing #PerfectHashing #Lexing #LexicalAnalysis #Programming #Algorithms #Trie #gperf #Tokenization
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Mini-rust in Rust 005: Our lexer should be an iterator
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Mini-rust in Rust 004: Refactoring our lexer
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Mini-rust in Rust 003: Much prettier errors
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Mini-rust in Rust 002: Errors while lexing
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Mini-rust in Rust 001: Lexing an int
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1. Writing a programming language - the Lexer
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A long time #classic #tutorial that’s a little too heavy on the #lexing & #parsing parts of a #compiler:
“Let’s Build A Compiler” [1988], Jack Crenshaw (https://compilers.iecc.com/crenshaw/).
On HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38773049 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38779776
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Wonderful:
"Why Split Lexing And Parsing Into Two Separate Phases?", Laurence Tratt (https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2023/why_split_lexing_and_parsing_into_two_separate_phases.html).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35798829
#Lexing #Parsing #RegEx #RegularExpressions #Compilers #Interpreters #Lex #Yacc #grmtools #Rust #Programming #Grammar
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This guy is writing a compiler from scratch.
He is writing it in the #C lang . https://youtu.be/apFUyLupFgE
#parsing #lexing #compiler
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