This module contains helper functions to simplify creating [[ceylon.ast|module ceylon.ast.core]] [[nodes|ceylon.ast.core::Node]].

The most useful functions are baseExpression and baseType, which allow you to abbreviate

BaseExpression(MemberNameWithTypeArguments(LIdentifier("null")))
BaseType(TypeNameWithTypeArguments(UIdentifier("String")))

as

baseExpression("null")
baseType("String")

Many of the functions in this package are also designed to be used with named arguments, where the “listed” argument (comma-separated) is assigned to the first unassigned iterable parameter. For example, we intend you to write

annotations {
    documentation = "Documentation.";
    "shared", "actual", "default"
}

and not

annotations {
    documentation = "Documentation.";
    annotations = { "shared", "actual", "default" };
}

This is especially important for the functionDefinition, classDefinition and interfaceDefinition functions.