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The goal of the Interpreter design pattern is, you guessed it, to interpret input, particularly textual input, although to be fair it really doesn’t matter. The notion of an Interpreter is greatly linked to Compiler Theory and similar courses taught at universities. Since we don’t have nearly enough space here to delve into the complexities of different types of parsers and whatnot, the purpose of this chapter is to simply show some examples of the kinds of things you might want to interpret.
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Tlön is a toy language that I built to demo the idea of “if you don’t like existing languages, build a new one.” It uses Boost.Spirit and cross-compiles (transpiles) into C++. It is open-source and can be found at https://github.com/nesteruk/tlon
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Nesteruk, D. (2018). Interpreter. In: Design Patterns in Modern C++. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3603-1_15
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