commenting out special Eq implementation for now

See the comments for details on why I'm leaving this code
in, though commented out.
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John Clements 2013-09-06 13:34:58 -07:00
parent 77c96d754e
commit acad9f35b3

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@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ use extra::serialize::{Encodable, Decodable, Encoder, Decoder};
// table) and a SyntaxContext to track renaming and
// macro expansion per Flatt et al., "Macros
// That Work Together"
#[deriving(Clone, IterBytes, ToStr)]
#[deriving(Clone, Eq, IterBytes, ToStr)]
pub struct Ident { name: Name, ctxt: SyntaxContext }
impl Ident {
@ -32,7 +32,17 @@ impl Ident {
pub fn new(name: Name) -> Ident { Ident {name: name, ctxt: EMPTY_CTXT}}
}
impl Eq for Ident {
// defining eq in this way is a way of guaranteeing that later stages of the
// compiler don't compare identifiers unhygienically. Unfortunately, some tests
// (specifically debuginfo in no-opt) want to do these comparisons, and that
// seems fine. If only I could find a nice way to statically ensure that
// the compiler "proper" never compares identifiers.... I'm leaving this
// code here (commented out) for potential use in debugging. Specifically, if
// there's a bug where "identifiers aren't matching", it may be because
// they should be compared using mtwt_resolve. In such a case, re-enabling this
// code (and disabling deriving(Eq) for Idents) could help to isolate the
// problem
/* impl Eq for Ident {
fn eq(&self, other: &Ident) -> bool {
if (self.ctxt == other.ctxt) {
self.name == other.name
@ -44,6 +54,7 @@ impl Eq for Ident {
! self.eq(other)
}
}
*/
/// A SyntaxContext represents a chain of macro-expandings
/// and renamings. Each macro expansion corresponds to