SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/09/16

***DISCLAIMER***: _These notes are from the defunct k8 project which_
_precedes SquirrelJME. The notes for SquirrelJME start on 2016/02/26!_
_The k8 project was effectively a Java SE 8 operating system and as such_
_all of the notes are in the context of that scope. That project is no_
_longer my goal as SquirrelJME is the spiritual successor to it._

## 18:00

Played many games.

## 18:11

Have this idea for a generic compiler, I just describe what the Java language
is like, and the generic compiler decodes the input language and does magical
stuff and code generation. Probably could not handle stuff like preprocessed C
code.

## 19:22

So the analyzing of input source code will build a structure based on the
input tokens and streams and such, then using normal means it will determine
what is meant by it. However there is potential for there to be ambiguity, and
the code reader will have a method used to sort out any ambiguity before it is
passed to the compiler. One ambiguity that can be thought of is default, it is
used to set the default value of an annotation value, used in interfaces for
default methods, and used as the miss-all case in a switch.

## 21:49

Have this idea for a hex editor that is able to show certain binary formats
and calculate stuff, could be useful for debugging and general messing around
with whatever is supported.

## 22:42

Using regular expressions for tokens is going to be slow, however it gets it
done easier.

## 23:42

And the regular expression for floating point values is quite complex.