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package org.apache.royale.compiler.codegen;

import org.apache.royale.compiler.tree.as.IASNode;

/**
 * The {@link IEmitter} emitter can use composition for it's more
 * complicated production sequences with member, dynamic, binary expressions and
 * identifiers etc.
 * 
 * @author Michael Schmalle
 */
public interface ISubEmitter
{
    /**
     * The main emitter will call this method of the sub emitter with the
     * correct generic type implemented.
     * 
     * The main idea here is abstraction. Producing JavaScript can get
     * complicated, the best way to avoid bugs is to avoid as much state and
     * interdependence between emit() calls of the main emitter.
     * 
     * @param node The current {@link IASNode} being emitted by the
     * {@link IEmitter}.
     */
    void emit(T node);
}