implement setproperty! for modules
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It doesn't seem like there was any good reason for disallowing this. Especially now with #43671 merged I found myself wanting this.
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We might want to improve this text error to say "imported variable" or something similar:
julia> stdout; Core.setfield!(Main, :stdout, stdout)
stdout = Base.TTY(RawFD(13) open, 0 bytes waiting)
ERROR: cannot assign a value to variable Base.stdout from module Main
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Ok, I can look into what happens in codegen |
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I think I want to tackle codegen in another PR. This should ideally be consistent with regular assignment to a global, where we currently just call into |
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In recent discussions, @JeffBezanson considered getfield on modules to be a mistake and preferred a separate builtin instead for 2.0. Maybe we should avoid repeating this for setfield! and just go straight for a separate builtin?
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Maybe, but I think with the current getfield that would arguably be more of a special case, no? I'd be happy to change that though.
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@JeffBezanson should say which he prefers. I had suggested implementing the getbinding builtin right away also and just keeping getfield working with the intent to deprecate in 2.0. That way there wouldn't be an asymmetry and getfield would just have a bit of a legacy quirk.
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Yes I think we should have getglobal and setglobal!, eventually deprecate the use of getfield for this, and hook up getproperty and setproperty!. Triage also brings up that there is no way other than eval to declare a global const, though we do have set_binding_type!. I prefer "global" here, it just feels like jargon-y than "binding".
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This replaces #44137. As discussed on triage, instead of supporting modules in `setfield!`, this adds two new builtins `getglobal` and `setglobal!` explicitly for reading and modifying module bindings. We should probably consider `getfield(::Module, ::Symbol)` to be soft-deprecated, but I don't think we want to add any warnings since that will likely just annoy people.
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Closing in favor of #44231 |
This replaces #44137. As discussed on triage, instead of supporting modules in `setfield!`, this adds two new builtins `getglobal` and `setglobal!` explicitly for reading and modifying module bindings. We should probably consider `getfield(::Module, ::Symbol)` to be soft-deprecated, but I don't think we want to add any warnings since that will likely just annoy people.
This replaces #44137. As discussed on triage, instead of supporting modules in `setfield!`, this adds two new builtins `getglobal` and `setglobal!` explicitly for reading and modifying module bindings. We should probably consider `getfield(::Module, ::Symbol)` to be soft-deprecated, but I don't think we want to add any warnings since that will likely just annoy people.
This replaces #44137. As discussed on triage, instead of supporting modules in `setfield!`, this adds two new builtins `getglobal` and `setglobal!` explicitly for reading and modifying module bindings. We should probably consider `getfield(::Module, ::Symbol)` to be soft-deprecated, but I don't think we want to add any warnings since that will likely just annoy people.
This replaces #44137. As discussed on triage, instead of supporting modules in `setfield!`, this adds two new builtins `getglobal` and `setglobal!` explicitly for reading and modifying module bindings. We should probably consider `getfield(::Module, ::Symbol)` to be soft-deprecated, but I don't think we want to add any warnings since that will likely just annoy people. Co-authored-by: Jameson Nash <vtjnash@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Dilum Aluthge <dilum@aluthge.com>
It doesn't seem like there was any good reason for disallowing this.
Especially now with #43671 merged I found myself wanting this.