How to Write an Expression Engine?
summary
The talk explains how to implement an expression engine in Go: it covers parsing expressions, building an abstract syntax tree, and evaluating expressions safely and efficiently. It walks through concrete implementation details and techniques for tokenization, parsing, AST construction and evaluation using Go's types and libraries.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction
- 8:35Expression engine basics
- 16:40Parameters and sentiment
- 22:46Implementation summary
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