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package org.codehaus.groovy.classgen;

import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.ClassNode;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.GroovyCodeVisitor;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.Expression;
import org.codehaus.groovy.ast.expr.ExpressionTransformer;
import org.objectweb.asm.MethodVisitor;

/**
 * Represents some custom bytecode generation by the compiler
 *
 * @author <a href="mailto:james@coredevelopers.net">James Strachan</a>
 */
public abstract class BytecodeExpression extends Expression {
    public static final BytecodeExpression NOP = new BytecodeExpression() {
        public void visit(MethodVisitor visitor) {
            //do nothing             
        }
    };

    public BytecodeExpression() {
    }
    
    public BytecodeExpression(ClassNode type) {
        super.setType(type);
    }
    
    public void visit(GroovyCodeVisitor visitor) {
        visitor.visitBytecodeExpression(this);
    }

    public abstract void visit(MethodVisitor mv);

    public Expression transformExpression(ExpressionTransformer transformer) {
        return this;
    }
}