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What are the pros and cons of a compiler with a single-pass parser?
Awarded Jul 12, 2023 at 5:40
What are the advantages of parser combinators?
Awarded Jul 12, 2023 at 3:05
To what degree is it practical to let objects be stored packed?
Awarded Jul 11, 2023 at 19:32
Can regex be compiled into efficient machine code?
Awarded Jul 11, 2023 at 19:20
Why would a language need to have trap representations?
Awarded Jul 11, 2023 at 8:37
Pros and cons of whitespace or comments being included as tokens
Awarded Jul 10, 2023 at 18:25
What are the pros and cons of having a unit type over C-like void?
Awarded Jul 10, 2023 at 14:36
Pros and cons of whitespace or comments being included as tokens
Awarded Jul 10, 2023 at 8:45
Pros and cons of whitespace or comments being included as tokens
Awarded Jul 9, 2023 at 21:27
Why do keywords have to be reserved words?
Awarded Jul 8, 2023 at 16:00
How would I allow a variety of different syntaxes for passing arguments into MathJax or LaTeX commands?
Awarded Jul 7, 2023 at 22:11
What obstacles prevented C and C++ from standardizing π?
Awarded Jul 6, 2023 at 18:19
How can we compare expressive power between two Turing-complete languages?
Awarded Jul 6, 2023 at 18:09
How can we compare expressive power between two Turing-complete languages?
Awarded Jul 6, 2023 at 15:30
What are the different ways of handling multiple return values?
Awarded Jul 6, 2023 at 14:58
What syntax could be used to implement both an exponentiation operator and XOR?
Awarded Jul 6, 2023 at 9:47
What syntax could be used to implement both an exponentiation operator and XOR?
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 22:01
What are the key steps to compiling a custom programming language that is similar to Rust (typechecking, type inference, and borrow checking)?
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 19:31
What are the trade-offs in supporting Tail Recursion Optimization, but not Tail Call Optimization?
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 15:11
Why do some PL choose to have a dedicated keyword for elseif instead of like in C?
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 11:21
Algorithm for type resolution without forward declaration
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 6:56
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Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 1:26
A lambda calculus backend without data constructors and `case`, what could go wrong?
Awarded Jul 5, 2023 at 1:03
What is a good universal naming syntax? [closed]
Awarded Jul 4, 2023 at 22:47
What are the pros and cons of allowing keywords to be abbreviated?
Awarded Jul 4, 2023 at 22:01
What are the pros and cons of allowing keywords to be abbreviated?
Awarded Jul 4, 2023 at 21:07
What are the disadvantages of including foreach loops?
Awarded Jul 4, 2023 at 15:30
How could a language make the loop-and-a-half less error-prone?
Awarded Jul 3, 2023 at 23:36
Why do most languages use the same token for `EndIf`, `EndWhile`, `EndFunction` and `EndStructure`?
Awarded Jul 3, 2023 at 17:33
Order-independency of Nonterminals in EBNF Grammar Spec
Awarded Jul 3, 2023 at 16:11
Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Awarded Jul 3, 2023 at 13:30
What are the pros and cons of single-pass compilers?
Awarded Jul 3, 2023 at 12:48
Why is it so hard to evaluate functions with constant arguments at compile-time?
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 23:01
Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 21:37
Loop syntax for inclusive and exclusive end boundaries
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 19:47
Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 18:47
What are the downsides of supporting chained comparison operators?
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 18:31
How could a language make the loop-and-a-half less error-prone?
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 6:46
How could a language make the loop-and-a-half less error-prone?
Awarded Jul 2, 2023 at 2:51
What should be included in error messages?
Awarded Jul 1, 2023 at 22:07
Why would a language allow zero-size structs?
Awarded Jul 1, 2023 at 19:16
Distinguishing classes from structures
Awarded Jul 1, 2023 at 5:40
Why can C not be lexed without resolving identifiers?
Awarded Jun 30, 2023 at 20:45
Is there any particular reason to only include 3 out of the 6 trigonometry functions?
Awarded Jun 30, 2023 at 17:56
Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Awarded Jun 30, 2023 at 11:17
How do you design mutable lists?
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 16:17
Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 7:48
What alternatives are there for C++ operator overloading syntax?
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 3:31
Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 1:34
Correct terminology and relationship between program counters, continuations & contexts
Awarded Jun 29, 2023 at 0:02
Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 16:25
Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 15:46
Return statements vs passing a pointer
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 15:32
What are some common ways to optimise an interpreter?
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 14:40
What are some different approaches to raw string syntax, and what are their pros and cons?
Awarded Jun 28, 2023 at 6:05
Return statements vs passing a pointer
Awarded Jun 27, 2023 at 18:17
Early binding, mutual recursion, closures. Can I have all three?
Awarded Jun 27, 2023 at 15:26
Return statements vs passing a pointer
Awarded Jun 26, 2023 at 14:11
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Awarded Jun 23, 2023 at 15:27
How to correctly highlight contextual keywords?
Awarded Jun 23, 2023 at 8:25
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