my own scripting language

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Re: my own scripting language by btrott (Parson) on Jan 17, 2001 at 02:21 UTC
You need a parser. And if you do intend to eventually use C for your interpreter/parser/whatever, you'll probably want to use a grammar that's compatible with yacc. With that in mind, I think you should look at Dominus's py.	[reply]
Re: my own scripting language by stephen (Priest) on Jan 17, 2001 at 04:49 UTC
Check out Constructing Language Processors for Little Languages by Randy M. Kaplan. It's a little rough going at times, and doesn't contain anything about application to Perl, but has some great stuff about how to design and implement scripting languages. You can take the stuff it says and apply it using yacc, yapp, or Parse::RecDescent. It contains examples of the kinds of grammars you'd need to write to use a parser generator. stephen	[reply]
Re: my own scripting language by Fastolfe (Vicar) on Jan 17, 2001 at 02:08 UTC
If you can specify a thorough grammar for your language, perhaps something like Parse::RecDescent will be useful.	[reply]
Re: my own scripting language by clemburg (Curate) on Jan 17, 2001 at 14:18 UTC
If you really want to do this, you should read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, and, if you want still more, Essentials of Programming Languages. Christian Lemburg Brainbench MVP for Perl http://www.brainbench.com	[reply]
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