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Nicholas Nethercote 3e3a4192d8 Split MacArgs in two. 
`MacArgs` is an enum with three variants: `Empty`, `Delimited`, and `Eq`. It's
used in two ways:
- For representing attribute macro arguments (e.g. in `AttrItem`), where all
  three variants are used.
- For representing function-like macros (e.g. in `MacCall` and `MacroDef`),
  where only the `Delimited` variant is used.

In other words, `MacArgs` is used in two quite different places due to them
having partial overlap. I find this makes the code hard to read. It also leads
to various unreachable code paths, and allows invalid values (such as
accidentally using `MacArgs::Empty` in a `MacCall`).

This commit splits `MacArgs` in two:
- `DelimArgs` is a new struct just for the "delimited arguments" case. It is
  now used in `MacCall` and `MacroDef`.
- `AttrArgs` is a renaming of the old `MacArgs` enum for the attribute macro
  case. Its `Delimited` variant now contains a `DelimArgs`.

Various other related things are renamed as well.

These changes make the code clearer, avoids several unreachable paths, and
disallows the invalid values.
2022-11-22 09:04:15 +11:00
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src Split MacArgs in two. 2022-11-22 09:04:15 +11:00
Cargo.toml rustdoc: use ThinVec for cleaned generics 2022-11-02 16:17:22 -07:00
README.md docs(rustc_ast): update crate descriptions 2021-11-02 21:11:17 -05:00

README.md

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: