Posts tagged lox
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Crafting Interpreters (IV): Resolver Lays the Track, Interpreter Fills the Values
jlox's object system stays inside the same runtime model: classes, instances, methods, this, inheritance, and super are built from LoxClass, LoxInstance, LoxFunction, environments, closures, and resolver distances.
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Crafting Interpreters (II): The Tree Begins to Run
An AST becomes a run when the interpreter walks it: expressions produce values, statements create effects, environments hold state, control flow chooses subtrees, and closures preserve captured scope.
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Crafting Interpreters: Chapter 3 - The Lox Language
TLDR: Lox is the small language that carries the book: expressive enough for classes, closures, and control flow, but compact enough to implement twice.