Monkey 0.0.1

Release: Initial Interpreter - Chapters 1 to 3

Overview

This release marks the initial implementation of the Monkey interpreter, following the first three chapters of Thorsten Ball’s "Writing An Interpreter In Go." The interpreter is written in Go and provides the foundational structure necessary for further language feature development.

Implemented Features

• Lexer: Tokenizes the Monkey language source code.
• REPL: Provides a basic Read-Eval-Print Loop for interactive evaluation.
• Basic Token Support: Recognizes identifiers, integer literals, operators, delimiters, and keywords.
• Error Handling: Basic detection and reporting of unknown tokens.

Usage

1. Build:

   go build -o monkey

2. Run REPL:

   ./monkey

3. Try Out:
   Enter Monkey language expressions (identifiers, numbers, operators, etc.) in the REPL to see them tokenized.

Reference

• Follows: Writing An Interpreter In Go
• Chapters Covered: 1–3

Next Steps

• Implement parser and AST nodes (Chapters 4+)
• Expand language features and error handling

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This release provides a solid foundation for the Monkey interpreter and is ideal for those following along with the book or interested in learning about interpreter fundamentals in Go.

What's Changed

• Evaluator for primitive expressions by @hawkaii in #1

New Contributors

• @hawkaii made their first contribution in #1

Full Changelog: https://github.com/hawkaii/monkey_go/commits/v0.0.1