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Tokay is a programming language designed for ad-hoc parsing, inspired by awk.

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Variable handling in compiler is a mess #128

Open phorward opened 7 months ago

phorward commented 7 months ago

The current handling of locals, globals and temporaries is a mess. This became clear with a10b45a. An entire re-design should be considered.

Some bad things to be resolved:

[x] Scope handling in compiler is ugly (started with #132)
[ ] Temporaries should be locals (on stack!)
[ ] Globals should not be defined by compiler.local() on global scope
[ ] ImlValue might not be the right choice for variables, maybe ImlVariable as internal information structure, to be used by e.g. compiler.temp() and compiler.untemp()?