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What happened?

If you have a proc where one of the argument names is quoted, getImpl ignores the backquotes:

import macros

proc p(`let`:int) = discard

static:
  echo bindSym("p").getImpl.repr

generates at compile time:

proc p(let: int) =
  discard

It should generate:

proc p(`let`:int) = 
  discard

Nim Version

Nim Compiler Version 1.7.1 [Linux: amd64] Compiled at 2022-06-15 Copyright (c) 2006-2022 by Andreas Rumpf

git hash: d33e1127666be23ad2dc879c2f89a41c179e2093

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Expected Standard Output Logs

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Possible Solution

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Additional Information

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let turns into a symbol node instead of a raw identifier, which is correct. This behavior is because of the AST rendering (repr); it would have to special case symbol nodes with names that need quotes and render them with quotes. A version of this behavior is already in the code, but it is limited (only checks the first char for special characters, see #19735) presumably to save performance.

Then the backquotes should be part of the symbol, I consider an this an information losing bug which in this case turned valid into invalid code.