Re:Show HN: ShivyC – Hobby C compiler created in Python
by lou1306 on Saturday March 31, 2018 @05:21AM
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Using exceptions is totally common, but this seems to raise/catch/log 6 errors each time it tries to parse a `for` statement. I'm a noob when it comes to compilers, but maybe a token -> function dictionary would be a better approach?
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Re:Show HN: ShivyC – Hobby C compiler created in Python
by JasonFruit on Saturday March 31, 2018 @07:58AM
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That does sound a bit extreme. (I freely admit I went by this description and never looked at the parser code myself, though some other portions I did read were pretty normal Python.)