Interpreter mode, which consists of a grammar representation with a composite class hierarchical structure. The rules are mapped to classes. The expressions following the grammar can be converted into an abstract syntax tree, except for the composite mode. There is nothing other than the instance object graph.
Tree is an abstract noun, because in fact most of the time it is an abstract representation of an expression, which ignores that there may be a string or a concrete expression of a data structure, (for example, in PHP , "A" and "x41" are different concrete manifestations of the same abstract literal value), and the results are decoupled through logical rules, greatly simplifying the interpretation process.
Interpreter is not a very common pattern, but for simple syntaxes, it is as easy to add a rule as adding a class, but it does not solve the conversion from concrete representation to abstract syntax tree, which is done by other services Completed.
The Interpreter pattern is designed to leverage a composite hierarchical structure for a simple AbstractExpression method (interpreter operation). The parameters of the interpreter operation are usually collectively called the context. For a given method , they are often replaced by calculated values, or they may not exist for some operations.
Likewise, when an interpreter is included, the leaf and container participants of a composite pattern have different names, reflecting the role they play: terminal or nonterminal expressions.
Participants:
◆Client: Use explain operation.
◆Abstract Expression: Abstract based on an expression tree.
◆NonTerminalExpression: An expression that recursively contains other abstract expressions (AbstractExpression instances).
◆Terminal Expression: An expression that cannot be further simplified.
The book "Design Patterns" provides an extended example for this pattern. I remodeled it by replacing the Boolean expression with a mathematical expression, so this example solves a mathematical expression. expression, its evaluate() is separated into a different ConcreteExpression class.