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package com.oracle.truffle.api.instrument;

/**
 * Program element "tags", presumed to be singletons (best implemented as enums) that define
 * user-visible behavior for debugging and other simple tools. These categories (<em>phyla</em>)
 * should correspond to program structures that are meaningful to a guest language programmer.
 * <p>
 * An untagged Truffle node should be understood as an artifact of the guest language implementation
 * and should not be visible to the user of a guest language programming tool. Nodes may also have
 * more than one tag, for example a variable assignment that is also a statement. Finally, the
 * assignment of tags to nodes could depending on the use-case of whatever tool is using them.
 * <p>
 * <strong>Disclaimer:</strong> experimental interface under development.
 *
 * @see Probe
 * @see Wrapper
 * @see StandardTag
 */
public interface PhylumTag {

    /**
     * Human-friendly name of guest language program elements belonging to the category, e.g.
     * "statement".
     */
    String name();

    /**
     * Criteria and example uses for the tag.
     */
    String getDescription();

}