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New challenge for Chapter 3 #61

Closed meadori closed 7 years ago

meadori commented 7 years ago

Section 1.3 gives a great description of bootstrapping. After the description of Lox in Chapter 3 I think an interesting challenge would be:

Is it possible to bootstrap Lox with one of the given Lox implementations?
Why or why not?

I spent some time actually trying this and it was a very interesting exercise in terms of discovering the limits of the language. As I hit limits I would alter the jlox implementation (via a builtin or language feature) to keep going. We'll see how far I get :-)

munificent commented 7 years ago

That's a fun challenge, but I think it might a wee bit too intense to ask people to do. :)

meadori commented 7 years ago

Understood. Thank you for considering it!