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WalterBright on March 16, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: How C++ Resolves a Function Call

I suspect that the only people who've actually read the entire Standard are compiler writers :-)

Note to anyone trying to implement a language - don't bother reading tutorials or textbooks on a language. Just the Standard. Otherwise you'll be sorry.

hmry on March 16, 2021 [–]

I can confirm this, having tried implementing an ECMAscript interpreter. "I'll start with just my own knowledge and tutorials, then I'll only need to read the standard when something is ambiguous" will lead to many hours of rewriting code based on incorrect assumptions.

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