[swift-evolution] [Pitch] Introducing #fileName debug identifier

[Pierre Monod-Broca]

TLDR: a path relative to the project would be nice.

I agree an absolute path is often too much. 
I don't have much file name overlap, but would it happen I reckon I would be glad to be able to differentiate them.

Pierre

> Le 13 mars 2016 à 05:07, Erica Sadun via swift-evolution <swift-evolution at swift.org> a écrit :
> 
> 
>> On Mar 12, 2016, at 8:27 PM, Dmitri Gribenko <gribozavr at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It should be OK to have multiple files with the same name in the
>> project.  For example, in the Swift compiler we have Decl.cpp in both
>> Clang and Swift.  It is important to distinguish these in the
>> assertion messages.
>> 
>> Thus, I'd suggest to consider instead passing the project directory to
>> the compiler, so that the compiler can provide a file name relative to
>> the project root.
> 
> Agreed that name overlap is possible. I tend to use a lot of shared code
> with "add reference" vs "add file" and relative-to-project-root actually 
> ends up longer that way than just absolute path.
> 
> -- Erica
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