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package com.oracle.truffle.api.instrument;

/**
 * A somewhat language-agnostic set of phylum categories, suitable for conventional imperative
 * languages, and is being developed incrementally.
 * <p>
 * The need for alternative sets of tags is likely to arise, perhaps for other families of languages
 * (for example for mostly expression-oriented languages) or even for specific languages.
 * <p>
 * <strong>Disclaimer:</strong> experimental interface under development.
 *
 * @see Probe
 * @see Wrapper
 */
public enum StandardTag implements PhylumTag {

    /**
     * Marker for a variable assignment.
     */
    ASSIGNMENT("assignment", "a variable assignment"),

    /**
     * Marker for a call site.
     */
    CALL("call", "a method/procedure call site"),

    /**
     * Marker for a location where a guest language exception is about to be thrown.
     */
    THROW("throw", "creator of an exception"),

    /**
     * Marker for a location where ordinary "stepping" should halt.
     */
    STATEMENT("statement", "basic unit of the language, suitable for \"stepping\" in a debugger");

    private final String name;
    private final String description;

    private StandardTag(String name, String description) {
        this.name = name;
        this.description = description;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }

    public String getDescription() {
        return description;
    }

}