Changes between Version 24 and Version 25 of AST

Timestamp:

04/21/11 20:32:10 (15 years ago)

Author:

Stephen Siegel

Comment:

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AST

@@ -65 +65 @@
 == AST Nodes ==
 
+Shared things: types, functions, variables...anything with an identifier.
+
+Maybe IdentifierNodeIF has a kind (function, variable, typeName, unknown, ...) and then also a method to return the shared thing, but this is not considered a child.    (Otherwise, you would not have a tree, but a directed graph.)
+
 ASTNodeIF extends SourceableIF
  * methods
@@ -72 +76 @@
 
 The following extend ASTNodeIF:
- * IdentifierNodeIF: wraps a string. represents an identifier occurrence in code
-    * methods
+ * IdentifierNodeIF: wraps a string. represents an identifier occurrence in code.   Has 0 children, i.e., is a leaf node.
+    * methods
+       * kind: UNKNOWN, VARIABLE, FUNCTION, TYPE
        * name: string
+       * reference: ASTNodeIF : the thing that this identifier represents
  * TypeNodeIF: a type expression
     * IdentifierTypeNodeIF
-       * this is a type that is just a name, e.g., resulting from a C typedef.   This will node will eventually be replaced by a more specific type tree once type definitions are processed.
+       * this is a type that is just a name, e.g., resulting from a C typedef.
        * methods
           * identifier: IdentifierNodeIF