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Deprecate module_name in favor of nameof(::Module)#25622

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@ararslan ararslan commented Jan 18, 2018 •
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As suggested by @Sacha0 and @martinholters in #25436.

This deprecates module_name(::Module) in favor of Symbol(::Module) nameof(::Module). This is technically breaking, since currently the Symbol constructor on modules falls back to Symbol(string(::Module)), which uses the entire module hierarchy (e.g. LinAlg -> Symbol("Base.LinAlg")), and with this PR it would be the top name only (e.g. LinAlg -> :LinAlg). The current behavior will still be available as Symbol(join(fullname(m), '.')).

If this is accepted, I think we should also fold function_name and datatype_name into Symbol constructors.

(I'm actually not super convinced that I like this, but I figured it's worth exploring.)

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martinholters commented Jan 18, 2018

I do find the proposed behavior of the Symbol constructor more useful, but at the same time, I find it non-obvious that in order to get the name of a module, I have to call the Symbol constructor on it.

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StefanKarpinski commented Jan 18, 2018

We could have a more general name function to get names of things that have them: types, non-anonymous functions, modules.

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ararslan commented Jan 18, 2018

I really like name. It jives well with fullname to get the full parent list for a module and with names to get the names defined within a module. I'll do that.

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JeffBezanson commented Jan 18, 2018

There is a function_name that can be replaced by this as well.

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ararslan commented Jan 18, 2018

Okay, I've introduced the name function and deprecated module_name, Base.function_name, and Base.datatype_name to methods of name as separate commits.

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ararslan commented Jan 18, 2018 •
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The doc build is failing because of this in DocStringExtensions: https://github.com/JuliaDocs/DocStringExtensions.jl/blob/22fe6a3ea2d8a194dc781ae8263a81c815e49926/src/abbreviations.jl#L137-L139

I'll submit a PR to change the loop variable name there. Edit: JuliaDocs/DocStringExtensions.jl#50

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ararslan commented Jan 19, 2018

Not sure yet what's going on with the Documenter/DocStringExtensions failure...

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fredrikekre commented Jan 20, 2018

Need v0.4.3, which includes your name fix?

julia/doc/REQUIRE

Line 2 in 625923f

DocStringExtensions 0.4.2 0.4.2+

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ararslan commented Jan 20, 2018

Weird, I could have sworn I pushed that...

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ararslan commented Jan 20, 2018

Still getting the failure even with that change.

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ararslan commented Jan 21, 2018

I'm not getting any errors while running locally so let's see what happens now...

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# as excluding Main.Main.Main, etc., because that's most likely not what
# the user wants
p = s->(!Base.isdeprecated(mod, s) && s != module_name(mod) && ffunc(mod, s))
p = s->(!Base.isdeprecated(mod, s) && s != name(mod) && ffunc(mod, s))
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Ah, the downside of very generic function names --- conflicts with a local variable.

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How about we call this nameof?

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I'd be fine with that.

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👍 Yeah, it's a good idea to avoid "stealing" simple words like name when possible.

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nameof it is.

@ararslan ararslan force-pushed the aa/module-symbol branch 2 times, most recently from 00c9369 to a35c2d4 Compare January 22, 2018 19:56
@ararslan ararslan changed the title Deprecate module_name in favor of name(::Module) Deprecate module_name in favor of nameof(::Module) Jan 22, 2018
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