Lesson 27← back to roadmap
EQL is not a toy. It is a real, four-stage compiler embedded in the engine.
- EQLLexer.cpp — char stream → tokens
- EQLParser.cpp — tokens → AST (include/elips/query_engine/AST.hpp)
- QueryExecutor.cpp — AST → QueryPlan → Vault calls
- MetadataIndex collapses equality and IN-list terms into candidate sets
Bindings ($name) are typed at runtime — the executor checks that a $vector binding is the right dimension before the plan ever reaches a Vault.