+/**
+ * \pre
+ * - <tt>self != NULL</tt>.
+ * - <tt>code != NULL</tt>.
+ * - \c code is an untranslated code passage containing no Bison escapes.
+ * - \c code was extracted from the grammar file at \c code_loc.
+ * \post
+ * - \c self has been overwritten to represent the specified plain code
+ * passage.
+ * - \c self will become invalid if the caller frees \c code before invoking
+ * \c code_props_translate_code on \c self.
+ */
+void code_props_plain_init (code_props *self, char const *code,
+ location code_loc);
+
+/**
+ * \pre
+ * - <tt>self != NULL</tt>.
+ * - <tt>code != NULL</tt>.
+ * - \c code is an untranslated code passage. The only Bison escapes it
+ * might contain are $$ and \@$, referring to a single symbol.
+ * - \c code was extracted from the grammar file at \c code_loc.
+ * \post
+ * - \c self has been overwritten to represent the specified symbol action.
+ * - \c self will become invalid if the caller frees \c code before invoking
+ * \c code_props_translate_code on \c self.
+ */
+void code_props_symbol_action_init (code_props *self, char const *code,
+ location code_loc);
+
+/**
+ * \pre
+ * - <tt>self != NULL</tt>.
+ * - <tt>code != NULL</tt>.
+ * - <tt>rule != NULL</tt>.
+ * - \c code is the untranslated action of the rule for which \c rule is the
+ * LHS node. Thus, \c code possibly contains Bison escapes such as $$, $1,
+ * $2, etc referring to the values of the rule.
+ * - \c code was extracted from the grammar file at \c code_loc.
+ * \post
+ * - \c self has been overwritten to represent the specified rule action.
+ * - \c self does not claim responsibility for the memory of \c rule.
+ * - \c self will become invalid if:
+ * - The caller frees \c code before invoking \c code_props_translate_code
+ * on \c self.
+ * - The caller frees \c rule.
+ */
+void code_props_rule_action_init (code_props *self, char const *code,
+ location code_loc, struct symbol_list *rule);
+
+/**
+ * \pre
+ * - If there's a code passage contained in \c self and it contains Bison
+ * escapes, all grammar declarations have already been parsed as they may
+ * affect warnings and complaints issued here.
+ * \post
+ * - All M4-special symbols and Bison escapes have been translated in
+ * \c self->code.
+ * - <tt>self->code != self->code\@pre</tt> unless
+ * <tt>self->code\@pre = NULL</tt>.
+ */
+void code_props_translate_code (code_props *self);
+
+/**
+ * \pre
+ * - None.
+ * \post
+ * - The dynamic memory allocated by the previous invocation of
+ * \c code_props_translate_code (if any) was freed. The \c code_props
+ * instance for which \c code_props_translate_code was invoked is now
+ * invalid.
+ */
+void code_scanner_last_string_free (void);
+
+/**
+ * \pre
+ * - None.
+ * \post
+ * - All dynamic memory allocated during invocations of
+ * \c code_props_translate_code (if any) has been freed. All \c code_props
+ * instances may now be invalid.
+ */
+void code_scanner_free (void);