oxlox

A Lox interpreter.

There are several places where this implementation diverges from the reference implementations jlox, and clox. I'm documenting these as I go...

oxlox ...

• uses i64 as the underlying primitive number type. I don't care to support floating point arithmetic and the complexities it imposes, e.g. interpreting numerical equality.
• disallows generic object equality in favor of static type equality (may revisit this decision later)
• uses idiomatic rust return value based error handling generally, instead of exceptions.
• oxlox doesn't implement classes, inheritance, etc..

Code written while reading and practising with https://craftinginterpreters.com/

Development

Currently developing with Rust 1.60.0.

❯ rustup update
info: syncing channel updates for 'stable-aarch64-apple-darwin'
info: latest update on 2022-04-07, rust version 1.60.0 (7737e0b5c 2022-04-04)

oxlox depends only on the Rust stdlib, no 3rd party crates. oxlox obeys clippy. Clippy is life.

Setting up pre-commit

We're using pre-commit and pre-commit-rust to cargo fmt, cargo check, and cargo clippy pre-commit.

$ pip3 install pre-commit
$ pre-commit install
$ pre-commit run --all-files