Parser Hacking [08]: Skipping Newlines in the Lexer | Simplified Parsing

In this video we simplify our parser quite a bit by removing newlines during the tokenization phase. This makes our parser so much cleaner!

About the Project: Natalie is a very early-stage work-in-progress Ruby implementation that compiles Ruby to an executable. It does so by transpiling Ruby to C++ and feeding it to gcc or clang to produce a binary.

GitHub: https://github.com/seven1m/natalie Twitter: https://twitter.com/timmrgn

#programming #ruby #cpp #parsers #compilers #recursivedescentparser #prattparser ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtTNPo6TZp8