Implement an evaluator for a very simple subset of Forth.
Forth is a stack-based programming language. Implement a very basic evaluator for a small subset of Forth.
Your evaluator has to support the following words:
+,-,*,/(integer arithmetic)DUP,DROP,SWAP,OVER(stack manipulation)
Your evaluator also has to support defining new words using the
customary syntax: : word-name definition ;.
To keep things simple the only data type you need to support is signed integers of at least 16 bits size.
You should use the following rules for the syntax: a number is a sequence of one or more (ASCII) digits, a word is a sequence of one or more letters, digits, symbols or punctuation that is not a number. (Forth probably uses slightly different rules, but this is close enough.)
Words are case-insensitive.
- To parse the text, you could try to use the Sprache library. You can also find a good tutorial here.
To run the tests, run the command dotnet test from within the exercise directory.
Initially, only the first test will be enabled. This is to encourage you to solve the exercise one step at a time.
Once you get the first test passing, remove the Skip property from the next test and work on getting that test passing.
Once none of the tests are skipped and they are all passing, you can submit your solution
using exercism submit Forth.cs
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