Guide to Writing Polyglot Compiler Extensions

This post is intended to be a supplement for the 2014 Polyglot tutorial. First, I’ll briefly go over the structure and naming conventions for Polyglot, focusing on clarifications and corrections from the tutorial. Then, I’ll discuss at a high level several ways we might want to extend Polyglot, and what we need to do to make it happen. The rest of this post assumes you’ve at least skimmed the Polyglot tutorial; I will frequently refer back to the Carray extension from that tutorial. Code Structu...

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