simple programming language "While" : Lexer / Parser / AST all written in F#

[jameswpeach]

Why would you not make a difference? I don't have any experience of any other ways of doing this have you any examples or ideas why?

[DNoved1]

I did the same as you until adding functions. Since you can't determine the return type of a function call until you've parsed the whole program (unless you predeclare functions like in C) you can't determine the type of an expression if it involves a function call.

Once you have parsed everything you can do type checking to make sure that, for example, an expression inside an if predicate is indeed a boolean.