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| (<span class="macro-nonterminal">$ident</span>:ident, $(<span class="macro-nonterminal">$tt</span>:tt)+) => { ... }; |
| }</code></pre></div> |
| </div><details class="rustdoc-toggle top-doc" open><summary class="hideme"><span>Expand description</span></summary><div class="docblock"><p>Define a type that supports parsing and printing a multi-character symbol |
| as if it were a punctuation token.</p> |
| <h2 id="usage"><a href="#usage">Usage</a></h2> |
| <div class="example-wrap"><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="macro">syn::custom_punctuation!</span>(LeftRightArrow, <=>);</code></pre></div> |
| <p>The generated syntax tree node supports the following operations just like |
| any built-in punctuation token.</p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <p><a href="parse/struct.ParseBuffer.html#method.peek">Peeking</a> — <code>input.peek(LeftRightArrow)</code></p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p><a href="parse/struct.ParseBuffer.html#method.parse">Parsing</a> — <code>input.parse::<LeftRightArrow>()?</code></p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p><a href="../quote/to_tokens/trait.ToTokens.html">Printing</a> — <code>quote!( ... #lrarrow ... )</code></p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>Construction from a <a href="../proc_macro2/struct.Span.html"><code>Span</code></a> — <code>let lrarrow = LeftRightArrow(sp)</code></p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>Construction from multiple <a href="../proc_macro2/struct.Span.html"><code>Span</code></a> — <code>let lrarrow = LeftRightArrow([sp, sp, sp])</code></p> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <p>Field access to its spans — <code>let spans = lrarrow.spans</code></p> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <h2 id="example"><a href="#example">Example</a></h2> |
| <div class="example-wrap"><pre class="rust rust-example-rendered"><code><span class="kw">use </span>proc_macro2::{TokenStream, TokenTree}; |
| <span class="kw">use </span>syn::parse::{Parse, ParseStream, Peek, <span class="prelude-ty">Result</span>}; |
| <span class="kw">use </span>syn::punctuated::Punctuated; |
| <span class="kw">use </span>syn::Expr; |
| |
| <span class="macro">syn::custom_punctuation!</span>(PathSeparator, </>); |
| |
| <span class="comment">// expr </> expr </> expr ... |
| </span><span class="kw">struct </span>PathSegments { |
| segments: Punctuated<Expr, PathSeparator>, |
| } |
| |
| <span class="kw">impl </span>Parse <span class="kw">for </span>PathSegments { |
| <span class="kw">fn </span>parse(input: ParseStream) -> <span class="prelude-ty">Result</span><<span class="self">Self</span>> { |
| <span class="kw">let </span><span class="kw-2">mut </span>segments = Punctuated::new(); |
| |
| <span class="kw">let </span>first = parse_until(input, PathSeparator)<span class="question-mark">?</span>; |
| segments.push_value(syn::parse2(first)<span class="question-mark">?</span>); |
| |
| <span class="kw">while </span>input.peek(PathSeparator) { |
| segments.push_punct(input.parse()<span class="question-mark">?</span>); |
| |
| <span class="kw">let </span>next = parse_until(input, PathSeparator)<span class="question-mark">?</span>; |
| segments.push_value(syn::parse2(next)<span class="question-mark">?</span>); |
| } |
| |
| <span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(PathSegments { segments }) |
| } |
| } |
| |
| <span class="kw">fn </span>parse_until<E: Peek>(input: ParseStream, end: E) -> <span class="prelude-ty">Result</span><TokenStream> { |
| <span class="kw">let </span><span class="kw-2">mut </span>tokens = TokenStream::new(); |
| <span class="kw">while </span>!input.is_empty() && !input.peek(end) { |
| <span class="kw">let </span>next: TokenTree = input.parse()<span class="question-mark">?</span>; |
| tokens.extend(<span class="prelude-val">Some</span>(next)); |
| } |
| <span class="prelude-val">Ok</span>(tokens) |
| } |
| |
| <span class="kw">fn </span>main() { |
| <span class="kw">let </span>input = <span class="string">r#" a::b </> c::d::e "#</span>; |
| <span class="kw">let _</span>: PathSegments = syn::parse_str(input).unwrap(); |
| }</code></pre></div> |
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