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carbon-lang/explorer/ast
Chandler Carruth 8c64f0bfdd Add -Wmissing-prototypes and fix issues it finds. (#4019)
Most of these are places where we failed to include a header file and
simply never got an error about this. The fix is to include the header
file.

Most other cases are functions that should have been marked `static` but
were not. Finding all of these was a main motivation for me enabling the
warning despite how much work it is.

One complicating factor was that we weren't including the `handle.h` for
all the state-based handler functions. While this isn't a tiny amount of
code, it is just declarations and doesn't add any extra dependencies. It
also lets us have the checking for which functions need to be `static`
and which don't. For the `parse` library I had to add the `handle.h`
header as well, I tried to match the design of it in `check`.

I have also had to work around a bug in the warning, but given the value
it seems to be providing, that seems reasonable. I've filed the bug
upstream: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/94138

I also had to use some hacks to work around limitations of Bazel rules
that wrap `cc_library` rules and don't expose `copts`. I filed a bug for
`cc_proto_library` specifically:
~https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/22610~ 
https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/4446
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The code in this directory defines the AST that represents Carbon code in the rest of explorer.

The AST is not quite immutable, because some node properties are set during some phase of static analysis, rather than during parsing. However, AST mutations are monotonic: once set, a node property cannot be changed. Furthermore, if a property is set after parsing, its documentation specifies what phase is responsible for setting it. Certain properties have has_foo() members for querying whether they are set, but those are for internal use within the phase that sets them. As a result, you can think of the AST as if it were immutable, but with certain parts that you can't yet observe, depending on what phase of compilation you're in.

All node types in the AST are derived from AstNode, and use LLVM-style RTTI to support safe down-casting and similar operations. Each abstract class Foo in the hierarchy has a kind method which returns a enum FooKind that identifies the concrete type of the object, and a FooKind value can be safely static_casted to BarKind if that value represents a type that's derived from both Foo and Bar.

These FooKind enums are generated from a description of the class hierarchy that is provided by X macros defined in ast_kinds.h that specify the classes derived from each AST base class. Those macros must be kept up to date as the class hierarchy changes.

The AST class hierarchy is structured in a fairly unsurprising way, with abstract classes such as Statement and Expression, and concrete classes representing individual syntactic constructs, such as If for if-statements.

Sometimes it is useful to work with a subset of node types that "cuts across" the primary class hierarchy. Rather than deal with the pitfalls of multiple inheritance, we handle these cases using a form of type erasure: we specify a notional interface that those types conform to, and then define a "view" class that behaves like a pointer to an instance of that interface. Types declare that they model an interface Foo by defining a public static member named ImplementsCarbonFoo. See ValueNodeView for an example of this pattern.