This patch adds a concept AST node (ConceptReference) and uses it at the corresponding places.
There are three objects that might have constraints via concepts:
TypeConstraint, ConceptSpecializationExpr and AutoTypeLoc.
The first two inherit from ConceptReference while the latter has
the information about a possible constraint directly stored in AutoTypeLocInfo. It would be nice if the concept information would be stored the same way in all three cases.
Moreover the current structure makes it difficult to deal with these concepts. For example in Clangd accessing the locations of constraints of a AutoTypeLoc can only be done with quite ugly hacks.
So we think that it makes sense to create a new AST node for such concepts.
In details we propose the following:
- Make ConceptReference the new AST node.
- TypeConstraint and ConceptSpecializationExpr do not longer inherit from ConceptReference but store a pointer to a ConceptReference.
- AutoTypeLoc stores a pointer to ConceptReference instead of storing the concept info in AutoTypeLocInfo.
This patch implements a first version of this idea which compiles and where the existing tests pass.
To make this patch as small as possible we keep the existing member functions to access concept data. Later these can be replaced by directly calling the corresponding functions of the ConceptReferences.
It would be nice to update this comment (for the other related classes, TypeConstraint), this is an important comment which helps reviewers easier understand the design principles of this change.