/**
 * AmbientTalk/2 Project
 * NATAbstractGrammar.java created on 26-jul-2006 at 11:57:00
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 * Authors: Tom Van Cutsem & Stijn Mostinckx
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package edu.vub.at.objects.natives.grammar;

import edu.vub.at.exceptions.InterpreterException;
import edu.vub.at.objects.ATAbstractGrammar;
import edu.vub.at.objects.ATTable;
import edu.vub.at.objects.coercion.NativeTypeTags;
import edu.vub.at.objects.natives.NATByCopy;
import edu.vub.at.objects.natives.NATTable;

/**
 * @author tvc
 *
 * NATAbstractGrammar is the common superclass of all native ambienttalk objects
 * that represent abstract grammar parse tree elements. That is, any object that
 * can be returned as part of the AST produced by the native parser.
 */
public abstract class NATAbstractGrammar extends NATByCopy implements ATAbstractGrammar {

	// This is an empty superclass used only for proper documentation and
	// to identify which native objects can be output by the parser.
	
	// subclasses of NATAbstractGrammar will override meta_eval and meta_quote as appropriate,
	// except for the literal grammar elements which can inherit the self-evaluating behaviour of NATNil.
	
    public ATTable meta_typeTags() throws InterpreterException {
    	return NATTable.of(NativeTypeTags._ABSTRACTGRAMMAR_, NativeTypeTags._ISOLATE_);
    }
	
}