preserve structure of using and import statements in parser
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This allows round-trip printing and more flexibility in how the statements are interpreted.
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| @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static jl_module_t *call_require(jl_sym_t *var) | |||
| // either: | |||
| // - sets *name and returns the module to import *name from | |||
| // - sets *name to NULL and returns a module to import | |||
| static jl_module_t *eval_import_path(jl_module_t *from, jl_array_t *args, jl_sym_t **name, const char *keyword) | |||
| static jl_module_t *eval_import_path(jl_module_t *where, jl_module_t *from, jl_array_t *args, jl_sym_t **name, const char *keyword) | |||
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Due to pre-existing unfortunate naming, it is now quite unclear to me what the roles of these two modules are and are intended to be. Is where the module in which the statement appears? Is from the module from which the bindings are being imported? The name from is used in many other places in this file to indicate the module in which an import or using statement appears. Or at least that was my understanding, and my attempts to change code loading appear to bear it out. It might be nice if there were comments explaining what the arguments mean. cc @vtjnash
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Is where the module in which the statement appears? Is from the module from which the bindings are being imported?
Yes. No need to copy Jameson here; I believe this is mostly my code.
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The from name is used heavily in the precompilation code to mean the opposite (i.e. the module you are loading code into), I'm cc:ing him to confirm that it has the opposite meaning there. So much so that the branch where I've been working on this is called sk/reqfrom; that branch conflicts with this and when I try to rebase onto this, the naming becomes a bit of a problem.
This allows round-trip printing and more flexibility in how the statements are interpreted.
This allows round-trip printing and more flexibility in how the statements are interpreted, e.g. letting us treat
import A.xandimport A: xdifferently if we want to. Though it is a bit harder on the interpreter.Part of #8000, and also in the spirit of #21774.