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

[Jacob Bandes-Storch]

Is it true that this feature is only for the purpose of debug symbols /
compiler message locations? If so, what about including the word "debug",
such as #debugline ?
On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 7:29 PM Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <
swift-evolution at swift.org> wrote:

> > line-control-statement → #line­
> > line-control-statement → #line­line-number­file-name­
> > line-number → A decimal integer greater than zero
> > file-name → 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.
>
> I don't love the way the current format has two unlabeled parameters in an
> arbitrary order. Maybe something more like this?
>
>         #reset line=50, file="foo.swift"
>
> (I have a soft preference for "reset" over "set" because these are things
> the compiler changes automatically, but that might be a silly reason.)
>
> Perhaps this could even let you set any combination of the #whatever
> parameters, so if, for instance, you were writing a parser generator, you
> could set #function to the name of the rule a particular piece of code came
> from.
>
> --
> Brent Royal-Gordon
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