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Let's Build a Compiler (in Python)!

• Preface: 25 years later

  • Scope

  • Structure

    • Approach

  • [The Project Layout](ch00/preface.html#The Project Layout)

  • [The Cradle](ch00/preface.html#The Cradle)

• Bytecode Generation

  • [Learning the Target Architecture](ch00/ch00.html#Learning the Target Architecture)

  • [Getting Started](ch00/ch00.html#Getting Started)

  • [Explaining the VM](ch00/ch00.html#Explaining the VM)

  • [The Inner Workings](ch00/ch00.html#The Inner Workings)

  • [Available Libraries](ch00/ch00.html#Available Libraries)

  • [Rolling our Own](ch00/ch00.html#Rolling our Own)

  • [Writing a Test Case](ch00/ch00.html#Writing a Test Case)

  • [Passing the First Test Case](ch00/ch00.html#Passing the First Test Case)

    • [Fetching the Bytecodes](ch00/ch00.html#Fetching the Bytecodes)
    • [A Bug is Discovered](ch00/ch00.html#A Bug is Discovered)

  • [Writing More Test Cases](ch00/ch00.html#Writing More Test Cases)

    • [Another Bug is Found](ch00/ch00.html#Another Bug is Found)

  • [But Does it Run?](ch00/ch00.html#But Does it Run?)

    • [From Code to Function](ch00/ch00.html#From Code to Function)

  • [At Last!](ch00/ch00.html#At Last!)

• More Expressions

  • [Generating Bytecode](ch00/ch00.html#Generating Bytecode)
  • [Order of Evaluation](ch00/ch00.html#Order of Evaluation)
  • [Dedicated Opcodes](ch00/ch00.html#Dedicated Opcodes)
  • [Generating Bytecode](ch00/ch00.html#Generating Bytecode)
  • [Register Management](ch00/ch00.html#Register Management)
  • [Another Bug is Found](ch00/ch00.html#Another Bug is Found)
  • [Unary Precedence](ch00/ch00.html#Unary Precedence)

• Variables

• Assignments

  • [Change the Filename!](ch00/ch00.html#Change the Filename!)

• Functions

• Multi-Character Tokens

• White Space

• Let’s Build a Compiler (in Python)!