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groovy2shoes on Dec 28, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Implementing a programming language in D: Lexical ...

If you want to see what a lexical analyzer looks like in Rust, here's one that I wrote for Lua:

https://github.com/aswyk/oxidation/blob/master/oxidation/src...

Of course, Rust's own lexer is also written in Rust.

ETA: I can't promise my lexer is actually any good... it's really the first non-trivial thing I've written in Rust. But it works ;)

gnuvince on Dec 28, 2015 [–]

Thanks for that link! I'm currently writing a compiler for a minuscule language[1] and it's great to be able to look at how other people tackle the same problem and learn.

[1] https://github.com/gnuvince/minilang-rs/

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