Update changelog and upgrading guide

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Version 3.0.0-dev
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This release primarily improves our support for error recovery.
### Added
* Added `Node::setDocComment()` method.
* Added `Error::getMessageWithColumnInfo()` method.
* Added support for recovery from lexer errors.
* Added support for recovering from "special" errors (i.e. non-syntax parse errors).
* Added precise location information for lexer errors.
* Added `ErrorHandler` interface, and `ErrorHandler\Throwing` and `ErrorHandler\Collecting` as
specific implementations. These provide a general mechanism for handling error recovery.
* Added optional `ErrorHandler` argument to `Parser::parse()`, `Lexer::startLexing()` and
`NameResolver::__construct()`.
* The `NameResolver` now adds a `namespacedName` attribute on name nodes that cannot be statically
resolved (unqualified unaliased function or constant names in namespaces).
### Fixed
* Fixed attribute assignment for `GroupUse` prefix and variables in interpolated strings.
### Changed
* The constants on `NameTraverserInterface` have been moved into the `NameTraverser` class.
* Due to the error handling changes, the `Parser` interface and `Lexer` API have changed.
* The emulative lexer now directly postprocesses tokens, instead of using `~__EMU__~` sequences.
This changes the protected API of the lexer.
### Removed
* Removed `Error::getRawLine()` and `Error::setRawLine()`. These methods have been superseded by
`Error::getStartLine()` and `Error::setStartLine()`.
* Removed support for node cloning in the `NodeTraverser`.
* Removed `$separator` argument from `Name::toString()`.
* Removed `throw_on_error` parser option and `Parser::getErrors()` method. Use the `ErrorHandler`
mechanism instead.
Version 3.0.0-beta1 (2016-09-16)
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Upgrading from PHP-Parser 2.x to 3.0
====================================
This version does not include any major API changes. Only specific details of the node
representation have changed in some cases.
The backwards-incompatible changes in this release may be summarized as follows:
* The specific details of the node representation have changed in some cases, primarily to
accomodate new PHP 7.1 features.
* There have been significant changes to the error recovery implementation. This may affect you,
if you used the error recovery mode or have a custom lexer implementation.
* A number of deprecated methods were removed.
### PHP version requirements
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* `void` and `iterable` types are now stored as strings if the PHP 7 parser is used. Previously
these would have been represented as `Name` instances.
### Removed methods
### Changes to error recovery mode
The following methods have been removed:
Previously, error recovery mode was enabled by setting the `throwOnError` option to `false` when
creating the parser, while collected errors were retrieved using the `getErrors()` method:
```php
$lexer = ...;
$parser = (new ParserFactory)->create(ParserFactor::ONLY_PHP7, $lexer, [
'throwOnError' => true,
]);
$stmts = $parser->parse($code);
$errors = $parser->getErrors();
if ($errors) {
handleErrors($errors);
}
processAst($stmts);
```
Both the `throwOnError` option and the `getErrors()` method have been removed in PHP-Parser 3.0.
Instead an instance of `ErrorHandler\Collecting` should be passed to the `parse()` method:
```php
$lexer = ...;
$parser = (new ParserFactory)->create(ParserFactor::ONLY_PHP7, $lexer);
$errorHandler = new ErrorHandler\Collecting;
$stmts = $parser->parse($code, $errorHandler);
if ($errorHandler->hasErrors()) {
handleErrors($errorHandler->getErrors());
}
processAst($stmts);
```
#### Multiple parser fallback in error recovery mode
As a result of this change, if a `Multiple` parser is used (e.g. through the `ParserFactory` using
`PREFER_PHP7` or `PREFER_PHP5`), it will now return the result of the first *non-throwing* parse. As
parsing never throws in error recovery mode, the result from the first parser will always be
returned.
The PHP 7 parser is a superset of the PHP 5 parser, with the exceptions that `=& new` and
`global $$foo->bar` are not supported (other differences are in representation only). The PHP 7
parser will be able to recover from the error in both cases. For this reason, this change will
likely pass unnoticed if you do not specifically test for this syntax.
It is possible to restore the precise previous behavior with the following code:
```php
$lexer = ...;
$parser7 = new Parser\Php7($lexer);
$parser5 = new Parser\Php5($lexer);
$errors7 = new ErrorHandler\Collecting();
$stmts7 = $parser7->parse($code, $errors7);
if ($errors7->hasErrors()) {
$errors5 = new ErrorHandler\Collecting();
$stmts5 = $parser5->parse($code, $errors5);
if (!$errors5->hasErrors()) {
// If PHP 7 parse has errors but PHP 5 parse has no errors, use PHP 5 result
return [$stmts5, $errors5];
}
}
// If PHP 7 succeeds or both fail use PHP 7 result
return [$stmts7, $errors7];
```
#### Error handling in the lexer
In order to support recovery from lexer errors, the signature of the `startLexing()` method changed
to optionally accept an `ErrorHandler`:
```php
// OLD
public function startLexing($code);
// NEW
public function startLexing($code, ErrorHandler $errorHandler = null);
```
If you use a custom lexer with overriden `startLexing()` method, it needs to be changed to accept
the extra parameter. The value should be passed on to the parent method.
#### Error checks in node constructors
The constructors of certain nodes used to contain additional checks for semantic errors, such as
creating a try block without either catch or finally. These checks have been moved from the node
constructors into the parser. This allows recovery from such errors, as well as representing the
resulting (invalid) AST.
This means that certain error conditions are no longer checked for manually constructed nodes.
### Removed methods, arguments, options
The following methods, arguments or options have been removed:
* `Comment::setLine()`, `Comment::setText()`: Create new `Comment` instances instead.
* `Name::set()`, `Name::setFirst()`, `Name::setLast()`: Create new `Name` instances instead. For
the latter two a combination of `Name::concat()` and `Name::slice()` can be used.
* `Error::getRawLine()`, `Error::setRawLine()`. Use `Error::getStartLine()` and
`Error::setStartLine()` instead.
* `Parser::getErrors()`. Use `ErrorHandler\Collecting` instead.
* `$separator` argument of `Name::toString()`. Use `strtr()` instead, if you really need it.
* `$cloneNodes` argument of `NodeTraverser::__construct()`. Explicitly clone nodes in the visitor
instead.
* `throwOnError` parser option. Use `ErrorHandler\Collecting` instead.
### Miscellaneous
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`prettyPrintExpr()` methods.
* The node dumper now prints numeric values that act as enums/flags in a string representation.
If node dumper results are used in tests, updates may be needed to account for this.
* The constants on `NameTraverserInterface` have been moved into the `NameTraverser` class.
* The emulative lexer now directly postprocesses tokens, instead of using `~__EMU__~` sequences.
This changes the protected API of the emulative lexer.