A question about the underhood compilers
So, I know I said compilers, but this will work for command lines, muds, anything that accepts textual input.
My question is... how?
I'll explain. Let's say you're writing a python script which looks like this:
def test():
print("Hello world!")How does the compiler read and understand your code? Surely it's not doing something like this...
if current_line.startswith("def")...
if current_line.startswith("if")...
and so on.
How do the compilers, muds, and command lines ignore spaces? These 2 statements would work equally on windows command line.
cd desktop
cd desktop
I tried looking for an explanation, but all I've found was a bunch of headache because the explanations were too complex.
Would somebody do me a favor and explain how it all works? You can link to resources and or articles to read, too, just keep in mind that I may lack some knowledge in this area.
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