Crate proc_macro_rules

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macro_rules-style syntax matching for procedural macros.

This crate is work-in-progress, incomplete, and probably buggy!

Example:

use proc_macro_rules::rules;
use proc_macro2::TokenStream;

fn main() {
    let tokens: TokenStream = /* ... */;

    rules!(tokens => {
        ($finish:ident ($($found:ident)*) # [ $($inner:tt)* ] $($rest:tt)*) => {
            for f in found {
                do_something(&finish, f, &inner, &rest[0]);
            }
        }
        (foo $($bar:expr)?) => {
            match bar {
                Some(e) => foo_with_expr(e),
                None => foo_no_expr(),
            }
        }
    });
}

Import the rules macro with use proc_macro_rules::rules, then use with rules!(tokens => { branches }); where tokens is an expression which evaluates to a TokenStream (such as the argument in the definition of a procedural macro).

Each branch in branches should have the form ( pattern ) => { body } where pattern is a macro-rules-style pattern (using all the same syntax for meta-variables, AST nodes, repetition, etc.) and body is rust code executed when the pattern is matched. Within body, any meta-variables in the pattern are bound to variables of an appropriate type from either the proc_macro2 or syn crates. Where a meta-variable is inside a repetition or option clause, it will be wrapped in a Vec or Option, respectively.

For example, in the first branch in the above example ident has type syn::Ident and inner has type Vec<proc_macro2::TokenTree>.

Crate proc_macro_rules

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