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

[Brent Royal-Gordon]

> I don't think we should make this change without also making the feature
> useful for things like gyb, which has to use its own home-brew line
> directive machinery because #line is AFAIK currently useless for any
> known application.  The way it currently works you can only put the
> directive at grammatical boundaries in the program where #if would also
> work.  For #if this is a feature, but for #resetfilecontext it's a bug.

Okay. Alternative syntax:

	/// - Source: <line> <filename>

or

	/** - Source: <line> <filename> */

In other words, make it a doc comment. Comments can go almost anywhere, and we already parse doc comments to extract documentation. Hell, in some cases, we might even be able to usefully set a column number with the inline comment syntax.

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Brent Royal-Gordon
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