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nogridbag | 4 months ago

I went through the Crafting Interpreters book with modern Java. I posted this on reddit, but I basically used records and sealed interfaces. With modern Java there's no need for visitor pattern.

    private void execute(Stmt statement) {
        switch (statement) {
            case Stmt.Expression expression -> evaluate(expression.expr());
            case Stmt.Block block -> executeBlock(block.statements(),
               new Environment(environment));
            ...

    public sealed interface Expr permits
        Expr.Assign,
        Expr.Binary,
        Expr.Call,
        Expr.Function,
        .... more exprs here

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scuff3d|4 months ago

Interesting. Almost all my actual experience writing Java is in Java 8, so I'm not super familiar with the modern stuff (other then a few things like Records). I'll have to take a look.

Most of the people I know who write Java would have an aneurysm at seeing a switch statement.

To be clear, that's a critique of the Java mindset, not your code. Lol