Re: Newbie Question......

Have a look at our site


          http://www.cs.rhbnc.ac.uk/research/languages/rdp.shtml


Our parser generator (RDP) comes with a big case study manual that
guides you gently through to building a byte-code based interpreter
and a compiler for a simple language that goes with it. My students
routinely take this stuff and add the kind of functionality that you
are requesting as an exercise.


                                                        Adrian


Wookie Monster (chewie@gibsona.demon.co.uk) wrote:
: I need to write a simple interpreter for my current project. Nothing
: too tricky, no custom types, just about 4 record types, floats,
: integers and so on, not even any function calls to outside functions,
: since the complete code consists of one function which will perform
: multiplication, additions. There won't even be any flow control (for,
: next, while loops etc..)


: It runs in the main application and is really more of a script to
: control parts of the main application. I am just looking for some help
: with regards of where to start. I know the basics of compilers with
: stripping the code down to tokens, and then work form that. My main
: problems are :


: This is mainly a maths based thing....I need to consider problems like
: brackets in code, and handling the maths issues..people have mentioned
: stacked based interpreters.


: Type checking, and general storage for actual interpretation.
--
Dr Adrian Johnstone, Senior Lecturer in Computing, Computer Science Dep,
Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX, England.
Email a.johnstone@rhbnc.ac.uk Tel:+44(0)1784 443425 Fax:+44(0)1784 439786

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