serene/include/serene/reader/semantics.h

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/* -*- C++ -*-
* Serene programming language.
*
* Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Sameer Rahmani <lxsameer@gnu.org>
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#ifndef READER_SEMANTICS_H
#define READER_SEMANTICS_H
#include "serene/context.h"
#include "serene/errors/error.h"
#include "serene/exprs/expression.h"
namespace serene::reader {
using AnalyzeResult = Result<exprs::Ast, std::vector<exprs::ErrorPtr>>;
/// The entry point to the Semantic analysis phase. It calls the `analyze`
/// method of each node in the given AST and creates a new AST that contains a
/// more comprehensive set of nodes in a semantically correct AST. If the
/// `analyze` method of a node return a `nullptr` value as the `success` result
/// (Checkout the `Result` type in `utils.h`) then the original node will be
/// used instead. Also please note that in **Serene** Semantic errors
/// represented as AST nodes as well. So you should expect an `analyze` method
/// of a node to return a `Result<node>::Success(Error...)` in case of a
/// semantic error.
///
/// \param ctx The semantic analysis context
/// \param inputAst The raw AST to analyze and possibly rewrite.
AnalyzeResult analyze(serene::SereneContext &ctx, exprs::Ast &tree);
}; // namespace serene::reader
#endif