Module rustc_ast::tokenstream

Token Streams

TokenStreams represent syntactic objects before they are converted into ASTs. A TokenStream is, roughly speaking, a sequence of TokenTrees, which are themselves a single Token or a Delimited subsequence of tokens.

Ownership

TokenStreams are persistent data structures constructed as ropes with reference counted-children. In general, this means that calling an operation on a TokenStream (such as slice) produces an entirely new TokenStream from the borrowed reference to the original. This essentially coerces TokenStreams into “views” of their subparts, and a borrowed TokenStream is sufficient to build an owned TokenStream without taking ownership of the original.

Modules

• size_asserts 🔒

Structs

• AttrTokenStream
  An AttrTokenStream is similar to a TokenStream, but with extra information about the tokens for attribute targets. This is used during expansion to perform early cfg-expansion, and to process attributes during proc-macro invocations.
• AttributesData
  Stores the tokens for an attribute target, along with its attributes.
• DelimSpacing
• DelimSpan
• LazyAttrTokenStream
  A lazy version of TokenStream, which defers creation of an actual TokenStream until it is needed. Box is here only to reduce the structure size.
• RefTokenTreeCursor
  By-reference iterator over a TokenStream, that produces &TokenTree items.
• TokenStream
  A TokenStream is an abstract sequence of tokens, organized into TokenTrees.
• TokenTreeCursor
  Owning by-value iterator over a TokenStream, that produces &TokenTree items.

Enums

• AttrTokenTree
  Like TokenTree, but for AttrTokenStream.
• Spacing
  Indicates whether a token can join with the following token to form a compound token. Used for conversions to proc_macro::Spacing. Also used to guide pretty-printing, which is where the JointHidden value (which isn’t part of proc_macro::Spacing) comes in useful.
• TokenTree
  When the main Rust parser encounters a syntax-extension invocation, it parses the arguments to the invocation as a token tree. This is a very loose structure, such that all sorts of different AST fragments can be passed to syntax extensions using a uniform type.

Traits

• ToAttrTokenStream