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Disappeared visit tracking

Open jackfirth opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Resyntax relies on the expander to find what forms it should analyze. This means that macros which circumvent the expander, like for, match, and syntax-parse, can hide forms from Resyntax. This is why Resyntax can't currently refactor (in-range a (add1 b)) to (in-inclusive-range a b) when inside a for clause. Similar issues exist for refactoring match patterns and syntax-parse patterns.

A fix to this would be to extend Racket with a 'disappeared-visit property, similar to the 'disappeared-use property, that macros can attach to syntax objects produced during "manual expansion". Integration with syntax-local-apply-transformer would also be nice. The syntax property should contain the syntax object that the macro manually expanded. In the case of for, that would be the right-hand-side of clauses when they contain sequence transformers. Resyntax can then search for this property in expanded code to find expansion visits that weren't otherwise visible.

jackfirth avatar Oct 16 '24 19:10 jackfirth