[LLVMdev] Type visitor?

Chris Lattner sabre at nondot.org
Tue Nov 28 10:57:30 PST 2006


On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, [ISO-8859-1] Pertti Kellomäki wrote:
> Is there some fundamental reason why instructions have a
> visitor interface but types do not? Or does the support
> in fact exist and I am just blind?

There is no specific reason, one just hasn't been needed so far.  Visitors 
are generally useful for large class hierarchies or ones which are often 
extended.  The type hierarchy is relatively stable and small.

-Chris

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