Questions tagged [tree-walker]
Use for questions about building tree-walking interpreters, a style of interpreter working by recursively traversing the abstract syntax tree of the language.
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How are coroutines implemented in a tree-walking interpreter?
It seems to me that coroutines and derived abstractions like the iterators and generators are implemented the following way:
When returning
Move the function's stack frame to the heap
Save a pointer ...
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How do I Interpret a Continue/Break Statement in a Loop?
Say I have the following construct in an interpreted language that uses an AST tree walker:
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