Python 3.x is patched in a way that integrates `.hy` source files into
Pythons default `importlib` machinery. In Python 2.7, a PEP-302 "importer"
and "loader" is implemented according to the standard `import` logic (via
`pkgutil` and later pure-Python `imp` package code).
In both cases, the entry-point for the loaders is through `sys.path_hooks` only.
As well, the import semantics have been updated all throughout to utilize
`importlib` and follow aspects of PEP-420. This, along with some light
patches, should allow for basic use of `runpy`, `py_compile` and `reload`.
In all cases, if a `.hy` file is shadowed by a `.py`, Hy will silently use
`.hy`.
It's not tested, and sure enough, a glance at the code suggests that `case` and `switch` will evaluate their first argument once for every clause, which is unlikely to be desirable. I say remove it, but if anybody wants to fix and test and re-add `case` (and change it to a square-bracket syntax like `cond`), be my guest.
I don't see why you'd put this in the standard library. I guess it could be useful for when you're maintaining a library and you want to change the name of a function or macro but keep the old name around for a while so people's code doesn't break immediately. But that's a pretty limited purpose.
Give `require` the same features as `import`
You can now do (require foo), (require [foo [a b c]]), (require [foo [*]]), and (require [foo :as bar]). The first and last forms get you macros named foo.a, foo.b, etc. or bar.a, bar.b, etc., respectively. The second form only gets the macros in the list.
Implements #1118 and perhaps partly addresses #277.
N.B. The new meaning of (require foo) will cause all existing code that uses macros to break. Simply replace these forms with (require [foo [*]]) to get your code working again.
There's a bit of a hack involved in the forms (require foo) or (require [foo :as bar]). When you call (foo.a ...) or (bar.a ...), Hy doesn't actually look inside modules. Instead, these (require ...) forms give the macros names that have periods in them, which happens to work fine with the way Hy finds and interprets macro calls.
* Make `require` syntax stricter and add tests
* Update documentation for `require`
* Documentation wording improvements
* Allow :as in `require` name lists
Fixed up the documentation language here and there, related to the alias
removals in previous commits.
Signed-off-by: Gergely Nagy <algernon@madhouse-project.org>
- Inline code is written using ``double backticks``
- Italicized text uses *asterisks* rather than `single backticks`
- Function parameters are italicized rather than written as inline code
