Writing A Compiler In Go

Unreleased

• Introduction
  • Change name of binary from monkey-fibonacci to fibonacci
• Chapter 2 - Back to the Task at Hand
  • Fix indentation of comment in code
• Chapter 4 - Compiling Conditionals
  • Fixed broken sentence when talking about lastInstructionIsPop and removeLastPop helpers.
• Chapter 7 - Compiling With Scopes
  • Fix wrong phrasing
• Chapter 7 - Opcodes for Local Bindings
  • Add missing Op to identifiers when talking about new opcodes
• Chapter 7 - Arguments in the VM
  • Changed sentence to make meaning clearer
• Chapter 9 - Recursive Closures
  • Added a missing “is” to sentence

7 May 2020 - 1.2

• Code
  • Added go.mod files to the code folder so that users with Go >= 1.13 can easily run it without having to set $GOPATH
• Introduction and following chapters
  • Changed REPL code from fmt.Printf to correctly use fmt.Fprintf to make use of out parameter
• Chapter 1 - Real Machines
  • Fixed a typo where it said “We’re going the” instead of “We’re going to”
• Chapter 2 - Starting With Bytes
  • Removed a comma that disrupted flow
• Chapter 3 - Booleans
  • Fixed a typo where it said “There are also has” instead of “There are also”
• Chapter 3 - Comparison Operators
  • Changed the conditional in executeComparison that checks that both operands are integers from a || to the correct &&
• Chapter 4
  • Fixed a typo where it said “We need put” instead of “We need to put”
• Chapter 7
  • Fixed the wrong function names in the code snippet: minsOne and minsTwo to minusOne and minusTwo
• Chapter 9 - Recursive Closures
  • Removed duplicate word “fail”

20 March 2019 - 1.1

Besides fixes for various typos and spelling errors:

• Chapter 3 - Infix Expressions:
  • Remove duplicated test case
• Chapter 6 - Array:
  • Fix broken link to Wikipedia entry for “Composite Data Type”
• Chapter 9 - Recursive Closures:
  • Add a completely new section that addresses a bug in the previous implementation that prevented recursive closures defined in other closures from working correctly
• Chapter 10 - Taking Time:
  • Chapter shortened after reworking Chapter 9 to include the proper for recursive closures

31 July 2018 - 1.0

Initial Release