In this commit we're splitting up the call nodes that were in target
positions (that is, for loop indices, rescue error captures, and
multi assign targets).
Previously, we would simply leave the call nodes in place. This had
the benefit of keeping the AST relatively simple, but had the
downside of not being very explicit. If a static analysis tool wanted
to only look at call nodes, it could easily be confused because the
method would have 1 fewer argument than it would actually be called
with.
This also brings some consistency to the AST. All of the nodes in
a target position are now *TargetNode nodes. These should all be
treated the same, and the call nodes can now be treated the same.
Finally, there is benefit to memory. Because being in a target
position ensures we don't have some fields, we can strip down the
number of fields on these nodes.
So this commit introduces two new nodes: CallTargetNode and
IndexTargetNode. For CallTargetNode we get to drop the opening_loc,
closing_loc, arguments, and block. Those can never be present. We
also get to mark their fields as non-null, so they will always be
seen as present.
The IndexTargetNode keeps around most of its fields but gets to
drop both the name (because it will always be []=) and the
message_loc (which was always super confusing because it included
the arguments by virtue of being inside the []).
Overall, this adds complexity to the AST at the expense of memory
savings and explicitness. I believe this tradeoff is worth it in
this case, especially because these are very much not common nodes
in the first place.
https://github.com/ruby/prism/commit/3ef71cdb45