[swift-evolution] [Discussion]: Renaming #line, the line control statement
Chris Lattner
clattner at apple.com
Thu Feb 4 11:49:06 CST 2016
> On Feb 4, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Erica Sadun <erica at ericasadun.com> wrote:
>
> What do you feel about something more like:
>
> syntactic-context-statement → #setsyntaxcontext
> syntactic-context-statement → #setsyntaxcontext syntactic-control-assignments
> syntactic-control-assignments → syntactic-control-assignments, syntactic-control-assignment
> syntactic-control-assignments → syntactic-control-assignment
> syntactic-control-assignment → line = line-number
> syntactic-control-assignment → file = file-name
> syntactic-control-assignment → column = column-number
> syntactic-control-assignment → function = function-name
> syntactic-control-assignment → dsohandle = dsohandle-name
Something like this makes sense to me, but only file and line can really be set by this construct.
-Chris
>
> -- E
>
>
>> On Feb 4, 2016, at 10:31 AM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com <mailto:clattner at apple.com>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Feb 3, 2016, at 7:29 PM, Brent Royal-Gordon via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org <mailto:swift-evolution at swift.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> line-control-statement → #line
>>>> line-control-statement → #line line-number file-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.
>>
>> Using something like this as the grammar structure makes sense to me, but I’d suggest something more specific (and longer) for this, perhaps:
>>
>> #setsyntacticsourcelocation
>>
>> or something. :-)
>>
>> -Chris
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