Re: Writing a symbol table in Perl

Joachim Durchholz <joachim_d@gmx.de>
19 Mar 2002 16:13:46 -0500

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From: Joachim Durchholz <joachim_d@gmx.de>
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:13:46 -0500
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 02-03-088
Keywords: symbols
Posted-Date: 19 Mar 2002 16:13:46 EST

Des Traynor wrote:
> [Doing symbol tables in perl is really easy. A straightforward way is to
> make the symbol table a perl table indexed by symbol name, and the values
> pointers to either tables or arrays with the symbol's info. -John]

... and if you need a scoped symbol table, use a key that says
      symbol_name.#
where # is either the nesting depth or the name of the scope that the
symbol belongs to.

Regards,
Joachim

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