asoffer updated this revision to Diff 278262.
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Add comments describing why we provide defaults for Metadata generation and 
design of withMetadata function template.


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  clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h


Index: clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h
===================================================================
--- clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h
+++ clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
   RangeSelector TargetRange;
   TextGenerator Replacement;
   TextGenerator Note;
+  // Not all transformations will want or need to attach metadata and therefore
+  // sholud not be requierd to do so.
   AnyGenerator Metadata = [](const ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchResult &) {
     return llvm::Any();
   };
@@ -265,7 +267,18 @@
 /// Removes the source selected by \p S.
 ASTEdit remove(RangeSelector S);
 
-// TODO(asoffer): If this returns an llvm::Expected, should we unwrap?
+// FIXME: If `Metadata` returns an `llvm::Expected<T>` the `AnyGenerator` will
+// construct an `llvm::Expected<llvm::Any>` where no error is present but the
+// `llvm::Any` holds the error. This is unlikely but potentially surprising.
+// Perhaps the `llvm::Expected` should be unwrapped, or perhaps this should be 
a
+// compile-time error. No solution here is perfect.
+//
+// Note: This function template accepts any type callable with a MatchResult
+// rather than a `std::function` because the return-type needs to be deduced. 
If
+// it accepted a `std::function<R(MatchResult)>`, lambdas or other callable 
types
+// would not be able to deduce `R`, and users would be forced to specify
+// explicitly the type they intended to return by wrapping the lambda at the
+// call-site.
 template <typename Callable>
 inline ASTEdit withMetadata(ASTEdit Edit, Callable Metadata) {
   Edit.Metadata =


Index: clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h
===================================================================
--- clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h
+++ clang/include/clang/Tooling/Transformer/RewriteRule.h
@@ -89,6 +89,8 @@
   RangeSelector TargetRange;
   TextGenerator Replacement;
   TextGenerator Note;
+  // Not all transformations will want or need to attach metadata and therefore
+  // sholud not be requierd to do so.
   AnyGenerator Metadata = [](const ast_matchers::MatchFinder::MatchResult &) {
     return llvm::Any();
   };
@@ -265,7 +267,18 @@
 /// Removes the source selected by \p S.
 ASTEdit remove(RangeSelector S);
 
-// TODO(asoffer): If this returns an llvm::Expected, should we unwrap?
+// FIXME: If `Metadata` returns an `llvm::Expected<T>` the `AnyGenerator` will
+// construct an `llvm::Expected<llvm::Any>` where no error is present but the
+// `llvm::Any` holds the error. This is unlikely but potentially surprising.
+// Perhaps the `llvm::Expected` should be unwrapped, or perhaps this should be a
+// compile-time error. No solution here is perfect.
+//
+// Note: This function template accepts any type callable with a MatchResult
+// rather than a `std::function` because the return-type needs to be deduced. If
+// it accepted a `std::function<R(MatchResult)>`, lambdas or other callable types
+// would not be able to deduce `R`, and users would be forced to specify
+// explicitly the type they intended to return by wrapping the lambda at the
+// call-site.
 template <typename Callable>
 inline ASTEdit withMetadata(ASTEdit Edit, Callable Metadata) {
   Edit.Metadata =
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