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Nicholas Nethercote e2aa38e6ab Rework pattern and expression nonterminal kinds. 
Merge `PatParam`/`PatWithOr`, and `Expr`/`Expr2021`, for a few reasons.

- It's conceptually nice, because the two pattern kinds and the two
  expression kinds are very similar.

- With expressions in particular, there are several places where both
  expression kinds get the same treatment.

- It removes one unreachable match arm.

- Most importantly, for #124141 I will need to introduce a new type
  `MetaVarKind` that is very similar to `NonterminalKind`, but records a
  couple of extra fields for expression metavars. It's nicer to have a
  single `MetaVarKind::Expr` expression variant to hold those extra
  fields instead of duplicating them across two variants
  `MetaVarKind::{Expr,Expr2021}`. And then it makes sense for patterns
  to be treated the same way, and for `NonterminalKind` to also be
  treated the same way.

I also clarified the comments, because I have long found them a little
hard to understand.
2024-06-23 15:57:24 +10:00
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src Rework pattern and expression nonterminal kinds. 2024-06-23 15:57:24 +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

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: