rust/compiler/rustc_ast
Nicholas Nethercote 95e519ecbf Remove NtIdent and NtLifetime.
The extra span is now recorded in the new `TokenKind::NtIdent` and
`TokenKind::NtLifetime`. These both consist of a single token, and so
there's no operator precedence problems with inserting them directly
into the token stream.

The other way to do this would be to wrap the ident/lifetime in invisible
delimiters, but there's a lot of code that assumes an interpolated
ident/lifetime fits in a single token, and changing all that code to work with
invisible delimiters would have been a pain. (Maybe it could be done in a
follow-up.)

This change might not seem like much of a win, but it's a first step toward the
much bigger and long-desired removal of `Nonterminal` and
`TokenKind::Interpolated`. That change is big and complex enough that it's
worth doing this piece separately. (Indeed, this commit is based on part of a
late commit in #114647, a prior attempt at that big and complex change.)
2024-05-14 08:19:58 +10:00
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src Remove NtIdent and NtLifetime. 2024-05-14 08:19:58 +10:00
Cargo.toml Split rustc_type_ir to avoid rustc_ast from depending on it 2024-02-27 18:11:23 +00:00
README.md docs(rustc_ast): update crate descriptions 2021-11-02 21:11:17 -05:00

The rustc_ast crate contains those things concerned purely with syntax that is, the AST ("abstract syntax tree"), along with some definitions for tokens and token streams, data structures/traits for mutating ASTs, and shared definitions for other AST-related parts of the compiler (like the lexer and macro-expansion).

For more information about how these things work in rustc, see the rustc dev guide: