Last time saw us endeavoring upon a trilogy to bring rows crashing down from their high-flying AST nodes into the realities of our lowly IR. Our goals this time are less highfalutin. We’re going to be lowering items. I can’t tell you how relieved I am to see this titled “Part 7”, not “Part 7a”. Items represent top level functions in our language. In our previous work , which type checked items, we learned items differ from local variables in the types they’re allowed to have. Ou...
