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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you're interested in this topic, I can highly recommend the book Crafting Interpreters.

[–] Corbin 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Also, the author has a standalone blog post on the topic from 2011, Expression Parsing Made Easy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

That's a great article, thanks. In his book, he just sticks to recursive descent parsers and doesn't get into Pratt parsers, but I think it's a great introduction to interpreters.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago