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Create a `DeclProtocol` protocol for generically operating on declarations

Open stackotter opened this issue 2 years ago • 0 comments

At the moment there is nothing shared between the toolkit's declaration wrappers; StructDecl, EnumDecl, VariableDecl, and maybe others by the time someone gets to this issue. A protocol would enable much more powerful generic programming to enable developers to create more flexible macros. Here's a rough idea of what such a protocol might look like (pretty simple for now);

public protocol DeclProtocol {
    var identifier: String { get }
    var accessLevel: AccessLevel? { get }
}

public enum AccessLevel {
    case public
    case private
    case internal
}

Once you've created the protocol, make sure to update existing declaration wrappers (including Decl) to conform to the protocol. Additionally, if DeclGroupProtocol exists by the time that someone is tackling this issue, it should be updated to inherit from DeclProtocol as well.

stackotter avatar Oct 10 '23 12:10 stackotter