the thing i do really like about this approach is that you can think of both the lex and parse step as being two sub-categories of token transforms, where the lex step takes a bunch of runes and produces tokens and the parse step takes those tokens and produces an AST
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omfg… etherium was created as a cope for a world of warcraft nerf?? im losing my fucking mind. imagine being so mad you… what the fuck about.me/vitalik_buterin
im just imagining like. imagine being born in russia, at 6 your parents send you to a private socratic school in canada with 50 students. you play world of warcraft for 3 straight years until blizzard nerfs your character and get so mad you devote your life to cryptocurrency
every single sentence is an absolute gut punch. sorry? you ‘travelled the world’ on $1.50 an hour?? you ‘cried yourself to sleep’ after a WoW nerf and like what? you’re going to make a game where nobody can rebalance any of the characters?