At the heart of language-tooling libraries and applications lie various structural representations of text, and the functions that operate on them. This directory contains language-agnostic data structures like:
absl::string_view
s do not just represent text, but they represent position within a larger body of text, by virtue of comparing their begin
and end
bounds. This concept is leveraged heavily to avoid unnecessary string copying. A base string_view
that represents a body of text and serve as the basis for interchanging between substring-views and byte-offsets relative to the start of the base.