rami3l / golox

A VM-based interpreter for the Lox Programming Language.

golox

The Lox Programming Language implemented in Go, based on the original clox implementation*.

* : For the tree-walking interpreter, see rami3l/dolores.

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Contents

• golox
  • Contents
  • Features
  • Try it out!

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Features

• Lexer
• Pratt parser & bytecode compiler
• Bytecode VM
• Basic types
• Floating point arithmetic
• Logic expressions
• Control flow
  • Jumps: break/continue**
• Functions
• Classes
• Instances
• Instance methods
  • this
  • Initializers
• Inheritance
  • super

** : Extension

Try it out!

With the latest Go toolchain installed:

To refresh generated source files:

go generate ./...

To run:

go run main.go

To run with debug info:

go run -tags DEBUG main.go -v=debug