SquirrelJME/SquirrelJME

# 2014/09/19

***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._

## 15:41

Short break.

## 16:13

Moved the descriptions so that LexerDescription contains the stage two
generation part. When generating stage two, the generated file will need to
setup requirements for code to compile. So it should create a list of implicit
dependencies. Compiler should then search through them to see if they are
provided and if not, attempt providing them. If they are in an uncompiled form
then they are to be implicitly generated (if enabled, which it is by default).
If they are not to be compiled then they are at least outlined for usage by
what they are needed by.

## 16:22

With new implicit method, generation of stage two will have to go through the
actual method source code to find other implicit files. So genStageTwo() will
have to minorly parse the bodies of methods and fields. The only big trick
will be shadowing. However that can be done by lazy realization after
something is entirely parsed. So the actual fully qualified class name of any
implicit requirement must be done last during generation while keeping object
specificity and scope visibility information.

## 17:06

The description will handle the base opening of the file and the tokenizer
engine will handle tokenization of some input language, then that will be
piped to a PushbackIterator in an implementation of of a description for stage
two generation.

## 22:21

An operator that returns the old value and then sets the variable to a new
value would be quite useful, would remove any temporaries involved.

## 22:55

Had this idea for the static compiler and optimization stuff, when compiling
the kernel create potential C++ template like instances of objects using a
specific base class for optimization purposes. This would require compiler
support however, and would not break type erasure and such.

## 23:17

The first bit I need to do in regards to the tokenization is to extract the
supported comment forms placed in the language definition.