Table of Contents
❧Frontmatter
I.Welcome
- 1.Introduction
- Design Note: What’s in a Name?
- 2.A Map of the Territory
- 3.The Lox Language
- Design Note: Expressions and Statements
II.A Tree-Walk Interpreter
- 4.Scanning
- Design Note: Implicit Semicolons
- 5.Representing Code
- 6.Parsing Expressions
- Design Note: Logic Versus History
- 7.Evaluating Expressions
- Design Note: Static and Dynamic Typing
- 8.Statements and State
- Design Note: Implicit Variable Declaration
- 9.Control Flow
- Design Note: Spoonfuls of Syntactic Sugar
- 10.Functions
- 11.Resolving and Binding
- 12.Classes
- Design Note: Prototypes and Power
- 13.Inheritance
III.A Bytecode Virtual Machine
- 14.Chunks of Bytecode
- Design Note: Test Your Language
- 15.A Virtual Machine
- Design Note: Register-Based Bytecode
- 16.Scanning on Demand
- 17.Compiling Expressions
- Design Note: It’s Just Parsing
- 18.Types of Values
- 19.Strings
- Design Note: String Encoding
- 20.Hash Tables
- 21.Global Variables
- 22.Local Variables
- 23.Jumping Back and Forth
- Design Note: Considering Goto Harmful
- 24.Calls and Functions
- 25.Closures
- Design Note: Closing Over the Loop Variable
- 26.Garbage Collection
- Design Note: Generational Collectors
- 27.Classes and Instances
- 28.Methods and Initializers
- Design Note: Novelty Budget
- 29.Superclasses
- 30.Optimization