Articleswift-syntax 600.0.1SwiftSyntax

    Glossary

    Glossary of terms and abbreviations used in SwiftSyntax

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    Abbreviations and Terms

    To avoid ongoing repetition of common long terms, SwiftSyntax uses a couple of abbreviations that are common in compiler projects.

    Arena See SyntaxArena

    Decl Abbreviation for Declaration

    Expr Abbreviation for Expression

    IfConfig Abbrevation for If Configuration. Refers to #if clauses in the source code.

    Layout Node A layout node can have an arbitrary number of children and provides structure to the syntax tree. All Syntax nodes that aren’t TokenSyntax are layout nodes. For example a StructDeclSyntax consists of, among others, of the struct keyword, the name and the memberBlock. The latter is again a layout node that contains multiple children. Layout nodes never represent any source code in the syntax tree by themselves. All source code within the syntax tree is represented by tokens.

    Node A layout node or token

    RawSyntax The underlying storage of syntax nodes. These are manually memory managed inside an arena. You should not need to interact with them unless contributing to swift-syntax.

    Stmt Abbreviation for Statement

    Token See TokenSyntax

    Trivia See Trivia