A syntax element. This instance controls the matching and compiling for a specific element. The library it comes from controls where it can be matched.

This is called during the second compiler pass, In->Out, L->R. Non-trivial syntax may need to override this to provide special behaviour.

The return type of this element, used for type tracking during compilation.

Attempts to match this element to a source string. The context can be accessed, but should not be modified here.

If the source does not match this element, return null. If the source does match this element, return a match object with the match data in.

Complex patterns are advised to override this and attempt faster checks with string.contains(part) before running the super matcher. This will circumvent a complex regex having to be checked every time.

For basic syntax, this can return a method that will be used as a handle.

The library that provides this syntax element.

The pattern metadata object.

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This is called during the first compiler pass, Out->In, L->R. Simple elements will not need this, but lookahead or re-ordering operations can be run here.

This writes a smart method call for the syntax, obeying rewrite rules. This can perform inlining, extraction and basic rewrites. This also has access to the bridge compiler.

A wrapped version of class.getMethod(...) to avoid catching exceptions.

For script reassembly - taking the post-parse structure and generating a (new) text script from it.

This has not been implemented yet.

Create the Skript documentation for this syntax.