A [NameSlot("role")] partial string property makes the generator own the
backing Identifier token slot, the string accessor, and the match term, so a
convenience name string and its hand-written token slot collapse to a single
declaration. A nullOnEmpty option stores a null token for an empty name, used
where the output visitor keys off an absent token. Apply it across every
name-token node.
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The grammar-production doc comments were transcribed in ANTLR style and
often copied the C# spec verbatim, including sub-rules the AST does not
model. Rewrite them as W3C EBNF (::=, ?, *, +), unroll sub-productions
that are not themselves AST nodes (e.g. anonymous_function_modifier ->
'async'), and shape each production to the node's actual members. Render
top-level alternations of node productions as multi-line <code> blocks;
keep operator and keyword token lists inline.
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Replace the hand-written DoMatch overrides on the expression nodes with
generated ones. The generator matches every real child and structural member,
so several matchers become stricter than the hand-written versions that
under-matched (for example a previously-skipped child or an ignored flag),
while Pretty output is unaffected. Convenience-string identifier slots are
excluded so the name string is matched once rather than also via its token.
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Each concrete syntax node now carries, in an XML-doc <remarks> block, the
matching production from the C# language specification grammar (ECMA/Microsoft,
ANTLR notation), quoted verbatim. Aggregate nodes (e.g. BinaryOperatorExpression,
ComposedType, TypeDeclaration) list every production they span; lexical/trivia
nodes (Comment, the preprocessor directives, Identifier) cite the lexical rule.
Nodes with no spec production -- ErrorExpression, UndocumentedExpression,
InvocationAstType, TypeReferenceExpression, NamedExpression, DocumentationReference,
and the C# 14 ExtensionDeclaration -- carry a hand-written EBNF plus a note
explaining why no official production exists.
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Each child of a C# AST node is declared as a [Slot] partial property, and the
source generator emits the accessor bodies and an ordered slot schema
(SlotCount/GetSlotRole/IsCollectionSlot) from them. Generating the schema
keeps slot order from being mis-stated by hand and lets a DEBUG invariant
check declared slot order against document order on every decompile. The node
hierarchy is converted family by family; the EntityDeclaration leaves flatten
their inherited Attributes/ReturnType/NameToken into each leaf's ordered slot
set. Storage stays the NRefactory linked list at this stage, so only the
declaration model changes and output is unchanged.
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The generator emits the IAstVisitor interface, the AcceptVisitor overloads,
and the null-node and pattern-placeholder nodes from [DecompilerAstNode]
declarations, so drop the hand-written equivalents across the C# AST: per-node
AcceptVisitor/DoMatch, the #region Null / #region PatternPlaceholder blocks,
IAstVisitor.cs, and now-dead usings. Also adds AccessorKind and moves
IdentifierExpressionBackreference into the PatternMatching folder.
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Introduce a Roslyn source generator that emits the visitor boilerplate for
the C# AST from [DecompilerAstNode]-tagged node declarations: the
IAstVisitor interface, the AcceptVisitor overloads, the pattern-placeholder
nodes, and the initial DoMatch support. AccessorKind lets an accessor's
keyword be chosen independently of its role, an early step toward shedding
the NRefactory role model.