Phase 5: Emit
Here is documentation describing how we emit .mm scripts.
Some Helpful Concepts
What is a generator?
A generator is used to traverse some representation of logic in an abstract way.
It then calls the emitter when appropriate to actually emit the code in the target representation.
What is an emitter?
The emitter exposes an API that can be called to emit code in the target representation.
There will be as many emitters as there are target representations supported by the language.
The Injection Strategies
The code that is emitted, and the methodology in which emitting happens, depends on the injection strategy specified by the user.
There are currently two supported injection strategies:
- Bytecode Rewriting
- Interfacing with an engine