<p>The HIR is represented by the <ahref="struct.Hir.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::Hir"><code>Hir</code></a> type, and it principally constructed via
<ahref="translate/index.html"title="mod regex_syntax::hir::translate">translation</a> from an <ahref="../ast/enum.Ast.html"title="enum regex_syntax::ast::Ast"><code>Ast</code></a>. Alternatively, users
may use the smart constructors defined on <code>Hir</code> to build their own by hand. The
smart constructors simultaneously simplify and “optimize” the HIR, and are also
the same routines used by translation.</p>
<p>Most regex engines only have an HIR like this, and usually construct it
directly from the concrete syntax. This crate however first parses the
concrete syntax into an <code>Ast</code>, and only then creates the HIR from the <code>Ast</code>,
as mentioned above. It’s done this way to facilitate better error reporting,
and to have a structured representation of a regex that faithfully represents
its concrete syntax. Namely, while an <code>Hir</code> value can be converted back to an
equivalent regex pattern string, it is unlikely to look like the original due
</div></details><h2id="modules"class="section-header">Modules<ahref="#modules"class="anchor">§</a></h2><ulclass="item-table"><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="mod"href="literal/index.html"title="mod regex_syntax::hir::literal">literal</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">Provides literal extraction from <code>Hir</code> expressions.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="mod"href="print/index.html"title="mod regex_syntax::hir::print">print</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">This module provides a regular expression printer for <code>Hir</code>.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="mod"href="translate/index.html"title="mod regex_syntax::hir::translate">translate</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">Defines a translator that converts an <code>Ast</code> to an <code>Hir</code>.</div></li></ul><h2id="structs"class="section-header">Structs<ahref="#structs"class="anchor">§</a></h2><ulclass="item-table"><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.Capture.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::Capture">Capture</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">The high-level intermediate representation for a capturing group.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.CaseFoldError.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::CaseFoldError">CaseFoldError</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">An error that occurs when Unicode-aware simple case folding fails.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.ClassBytes.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::ClassBytes">ClassBytes</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">A set of characters represented by arbitrary bytes.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.ClassBytesIter.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::ClassBytesIter">ClassBytesIter</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">An iterator over all ranges in a byte character class.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.ClassBytesRange.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::ClassBytesRange">ClassBytesRange</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">A single range of characters represented by arbitrary bytes.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.ClassUnicode.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::ClassUnicode">ClassUnicode</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">A set of characters represented by Unicode scalar values.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.ClassUnicodeIter.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::ClassUnicodeIter">ClassUnicodeIter</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">An iterator over all ranges in a Unicode character class.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.ClassUnicodeRange.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::ClassUnicodeRange">ClassUnicodeRange</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">A single range of characters represented by Unicode scalar values.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.Error.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::Error">Error</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">An error that can occur while translating an <code>Ast</code> to a <code>Hir</code>.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.Hir.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::Hir">Hir</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">A high-level intermediate representation (HIR) for a regular expression.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.Literal.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::Literal">Literal</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">The high-level intermediate representation of a literal.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.LookSet.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::LookSet">LookSet</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">A set of look-around assertions.</div></li><li><divclass="item-name"><aclass="struct"href="struct.LookSetIter.html"title="struct regex_syntax::hir::LookSetIter">LookSetIter</a></div><divclass="desc docblock-short">An iter
