using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Collections;

namespace sharp.parser
{
	public abstract class Parser<T>
	{
		protected Lexer Lexer { get; private set; }

		protected Parser(TokenDefinition[] tokenDefinitions)
		{
			this.Lexer = new Lexer(tokenDefinitions);
		}

		public Token[] Tokenize(char[] source){
			return this.Lexer.parse(new CharBuffer(source));
		}

		public T Parse(string source){
			return Parse(source.ToCharArray());
		}

		public T Parse(char[] source){
			Token[] tokens = Tokenize(source);
			return ParseTokens(tokens);
		}

		protected abstract T ParseTokens(Token[] tokens);

	}
}