Adds a possibility to access the first Token of a SyntaxNode.

suzizecat commented 3 months ago

As discussed, there would be a need to write-access in a generic fashion the first token of any SyntaxNode.

I am willing to try and implement it myself.

In order to not disrupt the current features would be to:

Create a ReferenceTokenOrSyntax object (or another name) which would hold the reference or a pointer to a Token or a Syntax.
Update gen_syntax.py to implement the getChild version which would return the ReferenceTokenOrSyntax
Implement/Update the getFirstChild and getLastChild functions.

Could I have a confirmation that this is the right approach ?

MikePopoloski commented 3 months ago

Yes, that sounds right. I think you'll want it to be a pointer, so TokenPtrOrSyntax probably.

suzizecat commented 3 months ago

Ok, thanks for the pointers. I may not have much time in the next week, but I'll have a look into this 🙂

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