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* Copyright (c) 2009, 2010 IBM Corporation and others.
* 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
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*
* Contributors:
* Mike Kucera (IBM) - Initial API and implementation
*******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.cdt.core.dom.ast;
/**
* An implicit name is used to resolve uses of implicit bindings, such as overloaded operators.
*
* Implicit names are not generated unless they resolve to something.
*
* @see ASTVisitor#shouldVisitImplicitNames
* @since 5.1
* @noextend This interface is not intended to be extended by clients.
* @noimplement This interface is not intended to be implemented by clients.
*/
public interface IASTImplicitName extends IASTName {
public static final IASTImplicitName[] EMPTY_NAME_ARRAY = {};
/**
* {@inheritDoc}
* Redeclared with strengthened postcondition.
*
* Will not return null or a problem binding.
* Implicit names are not generated unless they resolve to something.
*/
public IBinding resolveBinding();
/**
* Returns true if this node is an alternate.
*
* Sometimes more than one implicit name is generated for the same binding
* but with different offsets, when this happens the additional names
* generated are considered alternates.
*
* @see ASTVisitor#shouldVisitImplicitNameAlternates
*/
public boolean isAlternate();
/**
* Convenience method that returns true if this
* name represents an overloaded operator.
*/
public boolean isOperator();
/**
* This method is not supported on implicit names.
*
* Implicit names are not copied when an AST is copied,
* instead the implicit names are regenerated when needed.
*
* @throws UnsupportedOperationException always
*/
IASTName copy() throws UnsupportedOperationException;
}