I am interested in using the Eclipse JDT to create a CAPTURE binding.
I've read several capture conversion tutorials, but when I copy-paste sample code snippets, I can never find a capture conversion binding in the Abstract Syntax Tree (using the plugin ASTView for visualizing the AST).
How can this be accomplished?
The Abstract Syntax Tree is generated using both the list of tokens (from the lexical analysis) and the source code. The AST is generated during the syntax analysis stage of the compilation. Any syntax error would be detected and a syntax error message would then be returned, stopping the compilation process.
The AST is a detailed tree representation of the Java source code. The AST defines an API to modify, create, read and delete source code. The main package for the AST is the org. eclipse. jdt.
An abstract syntax tree (AST) is a way of representing the syntax of a programming language as a hierarchical tree-like structure. This structure is used for generating symbol tables for compilers and later code generation. The tree represents all of the constructs in the language and their subsequent rules.
Example provided by Deepak Azad @ Eclipse Forums:
interface Box<T> {
public T get();
public void put( T element);
}
class CaptureTest {
public void rebox( Box<?> box) {
box.get(); // return type of get() is a capture binding
}
}
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