Name Rascal/Libraries/analysis/m3

Synopsis a language independent meta model for facts about source code, which is extensible to include language specific modeling elements

Details AST Core Registry TypeSymbol

Description This is the core language independent model:

• AST: a symbolic representation for abstract syntax trees of programming languages.
• Core: M3 common source code model represent facts extracted from source code for use in downstream metrics or other analyses.
• Registry: in memory database for analysis/m3/Core models for resolving hyperlinks
• TypeSymbol: a symbolic representation for types that occur in programming languages.

For language-specific support, please go here:

• lang/java/m3

To get started with m3 immediately, please have a look at:

• createM3FromEclipseProject

Examples

• See Recipes:MeasuringJava for a step-by-step by-example recipe for how to use M3 for measuring things about Java:

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