Guest: Invocation Bindings.

Sealed base interface for guest "invocation bindings," which describes a method for invoking guest code from Elide. Invocation bindings are specialized per-language, but generally map to a uniform set of "dispatch modes;" these modes describe, in basic language-agnostic form, how guest code should be called.

Dispatch modes

Dispatch modes are implemented for each abstract base type of this sealed interface. At the time of this writing, only one base exists, which is GVMInvocationBindings (invocation bindings based on GraalVM guests). For the modes supported for GraalVM guests, see that class.

Resolving bindings

Typically, an AbstractVMAdapter is the object in charge of resolving a set of invocation bindings from a given script. Then, inputs for the script are matched against the available bindings to determine how best to invoke guest code. When ready, the bindings are exercised to perform the execution, and a response is mediated (if necessary) by the bindings.

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