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papercrane01/15/20261 replyview on HN

I love this book! I do wish there was a new edition that updated the version of Java used in the tree-walk interpreter. There's been some additions to the language, like sealed classes and exhaustive switches, that could really benefit the implementation.


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bbaron6301/15/2026

It's a fun little exercise left to the reader to upgrade to current Java. It pretty much eliminates the need for his ad-hoc code generation tool.

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