/*******************************************************************************
* Copyright (c) 2011 Bruno Medeiros and other Contributors.
* All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
* are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
* which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
* http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
*
* Contributors:
* Bruno Medeiros - initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package melnorme.lang.tooling.ast;
import melnorme.lang.tooling.ast_actual.ASTNode;
import melnorme.utilbox.tree.IVisitable;
/**
* Interface for {@link ASTNode} objects. No other class can implement.
*/
public interface IASTNode extends ISourceElement, IVisitable<IASTVisitor>, ILanguageElement {
public ASTNode asNode();
/**
* Returns whether this element has one or more immediate children. This is
* a convenience method, and may be more efficient than testing whether
* <code>getChildren</code> is an empty array.
*/
boolean hasChildren();
/** Returns the node's children. */
public IASTNode[] getChildren();
/** Clone this node, and all the sub-node in its sub-tree. */
CommonASTNode cloneTree();
}