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// Copyright 2013 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package types
import (
"fmt"
"go/parser"
"go/token"
)
// Eval returns the type and, if constant, the value for the
// expression expr, evaluated at position pos of package pkg,
// which must have been derived from type-checking an AST with
// complete position information relative to the provided file
// set.
//
// If the expression contains function literals, their bodies
// are ignored (i.e., the bodies are not type-checked).
//
// If pkg == nil, the Universe scope is used and the provided
// position pos is ignored. If pkg != nil, and pos is invalid,
// the package scope is used. Otherwise, pos must belong to the
// package.
//
// An error is returned if pos is not within the package or
// if the node cannot be evaluated.
//
// Note: Eval should not be used instead of running Check to compute
// types and values, but in addition to Check. Eval will re-evaluate
// its argument each time, and it also does not know about the context
// in which an expression is used (e.g., an assignment). Thus, top-
// level untyped constants will return an untyped type rather then the
// respective context-specific type.
//
func Eval(fset *token.FileSet, pkg *Package, pos token.Pos, expr string) (TypeAndValue, error) {
// determine scope
var scope *Scope
if pkg == nil {
scope = Universe
pos = token.NoPos
} else if !pos.IsValid() {
scope = pkg.scope
} else {
// The package scope extent (position information) may be
// incorrect (files spread across a wide range of fset
// positions) - ignore it and just consider its children
// (file scopes).
for _, fscope := range pkg.scope.children {
if scope = fscope.Innermost(pos); scope != nil {
break
}
}
if scope == nil || debug {
s := scope
for s != nil && s != pkg.scope {
s = s.parent
}
// s == nil || s == pkg.scope
if s == nil {
return TypeAndValue{}, fmt.Errorf("no position %s found in package %s", fset.Position(pos), pkg.name)
}
}
}
// parse expressions
node, err := parser.ParseExprFrom(fset, "eval", expr, 0)
if err != nil {
return TypeAndValue{}, err
}
// initialize checker
check := NewChecker(nil, fset, pkg, nil)
check.scope = scope
check.pos = pos
defer check.handleBailout(&err)
// evaluate node
var x operand
check.rawExpr(&x, node, nil)
return TypeAndValue{x.mode, x.typ, x.val}, err
}