On 10/06/2011 23:43, Edwards, Waverly wrote: > This is not directly ANTLR related but have any of you come across a > guide, tutorial or book (preferably) for implementing an compiler for > an object oriented language. I don't mean the compiler is created > using an object oriented languages, though that would be good. I > mean what goes into implementing subclassing, method overriding, > hybrid language type safety such as objective-c (static and dynamic > type) enforcement. Also things like implementing exceptions and > polymorphic variables. I've used them in languages but I haven't > read how you might go about go about implementing them. I have a few > compiler books but interestingly enough, they all deal with > procedural languages like C or Pascal. None of them talk about the > innards of making compilers for object oriented languages. I do own > "Language Implementation Patterns", which helped me understand scopes > for object languages. I'm hoping to start with a book that lets you > know what to do, what not to do and why you don't want to do it that > way. I'd like to start with making fresh mistakes versus ones that > have been made over and over again. Smalltalk is often used as a teaching language for OO implementation... there ought to be some literature out there. However, when I studied it (which I remember barely) it was all about the runtime and VMing, rather than compilation
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