I’ve been making some apps recently. Â One for the new Windows 8 modern UI and one for iOS using swift. Â One was a joy to code, the other was not 😉 Swift is an interesting language and I look forward to writing more code in it. Â C# is also a nice language, however writing code …
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Swift Parser Generation
I’ve been fascinated by the Scala language since I first saw it. I’ve been fortunate enough to be able to use Scala in a couple of projects. One of the parts of the Scala standard library I really like is the parser combinator stuff. Â I’ve been spending a bit of time recently playing with some …
The first stage of my port of pegged to Swift is successful :)
I have managed to get the Objective-C version of pegged to spit out a parser using Swift rather than Objective-C 🙂 It’s getting late, so I really should get some sleep. I finally figured out what was causing the compiler to crash. Â The following code will crash the Swift compiler unless the inout parameter to …
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Swift compiler is crashing for me :(
I’ve been spending a bit of time having a play with Apple’s Swift. Â So far I find the language to be interesting. It seems to be missing a few things. Â Working with strings is a real pain 🙁 Â Hopefully this will be fixed in later versions of the language/compiler. I’m also hitting many problems with …