//
// This serves as a factory for creating `AbstractOperation`s and for
// registering traced functions.
// Operations creation within a context can only be executed in that context
// (for now at least).
// Implementations of the context may contain some state e.g. an execution
// environment, a traced representation etc.
class AbstractContext {
 protected:

  // watched inputs.
  void Watch(const AbstractTensorHandle*);
  // Records an operation with given inputs and outputs
  // on the tape and marks all its outputs as watched if at
  // least one input of the op is watched and has a trainable dtype.
  // op_name is optional and is used for debugging only.
  void RecordOperation(absl::Span<AbstractTensorHandle* const> inputs,