Symbol

A symbol represents an object with semantic code information.

class Symbol {

Status status;

Symbol parent;

Identifier* name;

this(SYM sid, Identifier* name, SLoc loc);

void setCompleting();

void setComplete();

bool isCompleting();

bool isComplete();

Class to();

cstring getFQN();

Symbol getModule();

Object getType();

cstring toMangle();

string toString();

}

Constructors

this this(SYM sid, Identifier* name, SLoc loc): Constructs a Symbol object.

Members

Functions

getFQN cstring getFQN()
getModule Symbol getModule(): Returns the module this symbol belongs to or null if orphaned.
getType Object getType(): Returns the type of this symbol or null if inexistent. The return type is Object to avoid circular imports.
isComplete bool isComplete(): Returns true if the symbols is complete.
isCompleting bool isCompleting(): Returns true if the symbol is being completed.
setComplete void setComplete(): Change the status to Status.Complete.
setCompleting void setCompleting(): Change the status to Status.Completing.
to Class to(): Casts the symbol to Class.
toMangle cstring toMangle(): Returns the mangled name of this symbol.
toString string toString(): Returns the string representation of this symbol.

Variables

loc SLoc loc;: For locating a symbol.
name Identifier* name;: The name of this symbol. If the symbol is nameless Ident.Empty is assigned to it.
parent Symbol parent;: The parent this symbol belongs to.
sid SYM sid;: The ID of this symbol.
status Status status;: The semantic status of this symbol.

Meta

Source

See Implementation

dil semantic Symbol classes

Symbol

enums

SYM

structs

SLoc