Names

A term name that's derived from an underlying name and that adds info to it.

A common superclass of Name and Symbol. After bootstrap, this should be just the type alias Name | Symbol

A name if either a term name or a type name. Term names can be simple or derived. A simple term name is essentially an interned string stored in a name table. A derived term name adds a tag, and possibly a number or a further simple name to some other name.

A simple name is essentially an interned string

Names for terms, can be simple or derived

Things that can be turned into names with totermName and toTypeName Decorators defines implements these as extension methods for strings.

Create a term name from the characters in cs[offset..offset+len-1]. Assume they are already encoded.

Create a term name from the UTF8 encoded bytes in bs[offset..offset+len-1]. Assume they are already encoded.

Create a term name from a string. See sliceToTermName in Decorators for a more efficient version which however requires a Context for its operation.

Create a type name from the characters in cs[offset..offset+len-1]. Assume they are already encoded.

Create a type name from the UTF8 encoded bytes in bs[offset..offset+len-1]. Assume they are already encoded.

Create a type name from a string

The term name represented by the empty string

The type name represented by the empty string