Re: Loops using flex/bison..

[Anthony DeRobertis]

On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 05:48 AM, Matthew Tedder (by 
way of Hans Aberg) wrote:

> The main thing I'm looking for is how the designers of lex and 
> yacc intended
> one to design a compiler/interpreter that has looping 
> constructs such as
> while, for, and goto/labels?

Intermediate representations.

> Other than using an intermediate code, how can one make the 
> execution of
> statements jump to a specified point?

One doesn't.

> I figured an interpreter
> would be a good first step.

And interpreter can be much easier, because you don't have to 
worry about the quirks of real hardware. See my AST example of 
doing it; that will work.