>> I think for these kinds of problems it would be helpful to have a 
>> metavariable
>> type that is somewhere in the middle of idexpression and expression. 
>> Something
>> that matches an identifier or accessing a field in an identifier, or a field
>> of a field of an identifier and so on.
>>
>> In the past I had cocci scripts where I ended up doing
>>
>> (
>> id->fld1
>> |
>> id->fld1.fld2
>> |
>> id->fld1.fld2.fld3
>> ...
>> )
>>
>> to kind of make this work.
> It's probably true,  But I don't know what one would call it, and I think
> that if one had a name for it, no one would understand it...

Do you dare to suggest another type name for a metavariable in the
semantic patch language?

Regards,
Markus
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