Statements

Introduction

This section will revise all statement-types and their contents.

Structures

Starting from most general to most specific, here, we will explain all the class types in the compiler/symbols/data.d file.

Statement [class]

This is the holy grail of everything the parser generates. This is the top-level general representation-base of all structures. This means that this class represents the attributes that all structures that are sub-types of it (as you will see) will have. All parser methods produce some sub-type of the Statement type and return it for addition into either another kinf-of statement or for immediate addition to the Program’s statements array.

Being a general top-type there isn’t much it has but it has a few things all types of statements will require:

1. weight
   • These are simply integers which are for the topic of discussion of weighting
   • Some statements share the same weight, some don’t
2. context
   • This is used at a stage other than parsing and is not for discussion here, see context
3. container
   • This is where the structures of structures aspect comes in. This allows us to set the container-like strcuture to of which we are a parent of
   • This is returned by parentOf() (type Container)
   • This is set by parentTo(Container)

Entity [class]

An Entity is any statement that represents a structure in T that is a named structure. The following structures in T are named and therefore will be represented as sub-type of the Entity type in the parser:

1. Classes
2. Variables (declarations)
3. Function (declarations)
4. Structs

TODO: Add now Entity, etc, VarAsign, VArAsignSTdALone etc