wyil.lang

Interface Modifier

All Known Implementing Classes:

Modifier.Export, Modifier.Native, Modifier.Private, Modifier.Public

public interface Modifier

Represents a protection modifier on a module item. For example, all declarations (e.g. functions, types, etc) can be marked as public or private.

The modifiers native and export are used to enable inter-operation with other languages. By declaring a function or method as native you are signaling that its implementation is provided elsewhere (e.g. it's implemented in Java code directly). By marking a function or method with export, you are declaring that external code may call it. For example, you have some Java code that needs to call it. The modifier is required because, by default, all the names of all methods and functions are mangled to include type information and enable overloading. Therefore, a method/function marked with export will generate a function without name mangling.

Author:

David J. Pearce

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
static class	Modifier.Export
static class	Modifier.Native
static class	Modifier.Private
static class	Modifier.Public

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field and Description
static Modifier	EXPORT
static Modifier	NATIVE
static Modifier	PRIVATE
static Modifier	PUBLIC

Field Detail

PUBLIC

static final Modifier PUBLIC

PRIVATE

static final Modifier PRIVATE

NATIVE

static final Modifier NATIVE

EXPORT

static final Modifier EXPORT