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Nicholas Nethercote
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I'm removing empty identifiers everywhere, because in practice they always mean "no identifier" rather than "empty identifier". (An empty identifier is impossible.) It's better to use `Option` to mean "no identifier" because you then can't forget about the "no identifier" possibility. Some specifics: - When testing an attribute for a single name, the commit uses the `has_name` method. - When testing an attribute for multiple names, the commit uses the new `has_any_name` method. - When using `match` on an attribute, the match arms now have `Some` on them. In the tests, we now avoid printing empty identifiers by not printing the identifier in the `error:` line at all, instead letting the carets point out the problem.
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: