[cfe-dev] Suggestion for new AST-matchers

[Aaron Ballman via cfe-dev]

On Wed, Mar 11, 2020 at 7:11 AM Kim Viggedal via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> I was thinking it might be worthwhile to add a few AST-matchers, something like
> isAssociativeOperator, isCommutativeOperator and maybe isDistributiveOperator.
>
> I'm still quite new in the clang community so before starting to work on them I would like to check if they have potential to be accepted.
>
> So, might these matchers be relevant for clang?

It's possible! When we add new AST matchers, we typically want there
to be some obvious uses for the matcher (for instance, clang-tidy
checks that could be refactored to use them, new clang-tidy checks
made possible, etc). It's not immediately obvious to me what these
matchers would be used for in general as opposed to being a local
matcher used by 1-2 checks, however, you may have other ideas in mind
that I'm not thinking of.

~Aaron

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