[swift-evolution] [Discussion]: Renaming #line, the line control statement

[Jonathan Tang]

The primary use for the existing #line directive is for generated code like
parser/lexer generators, right?  If so, how about #sourceline, since it
represents the line number in the original source code?  I'm also fine with
#setline, but don't like #linenumber because it's not clear what the
difference is between it and #line.

Actually, it'd also be used to reset the line number back to the generated
code, right?  In that case, #sourceline seems awkward, and maybe I'll just
go with +1 to #setline.

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> Swift Evolution SE-0028 (
> https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/master/proposals/0028-modernizing-debug-identifiers.md)
> overloads
> the use of #line to mean both an identifier that maps to a calling site's
> line number with a file and acts as part of a line control statement with
> the following grammar:
>
> line-control-statement → #line­
> line-control-statement → #line­line-number
> <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/Statements.html#//apple_ref/swift/grammar/line-number>
> ­file-name
> <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/Statements.html#//apple_ref/swift/grammar/file-name>
> ­
> line-number → A decimal integer greater than zero
> file-name → static-string-literal
> <https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Swift/Conceptual/Swift_Programming_Language/LexicalStructure.html#//apple_ref/swift/grammar/static-string-literal>
> ­
>
> The accepted implementation of SE-0028 disambiguates the two by requiring
> #line (the control statement) to appear at the first column for the time
> being. This is a stop-gap solution best remedied by renaming #line.
>
> Chris Lattner writes, "The core team isn’t thrilled with the magic “first
> token on a line” whitespace behavior that #line will be getting, and would
> like someone to start a discussion about renaming the old #line directive
> to something more specific and tailored to its purpose.   Once that name
> and syntax is settled, we can rename the directive and remove the
> whitespace rule."
>
> I'd recommend #setline or #linenumber. Starting this thread to solicit
> other suggestions.
>
> Best, -- E
>
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