Unfortunately, when read in using a LineNumberingPushbackReader, code like this has its :line metadata squashed by the line numbers coming from that. A REPL-friendly example would be:
The latter seems more correct to me (and is equivalent to read-string).
Proposed: Retain existing :line/:column meta on seqs and lists that are read with meta rather than overriding with the values read from the reader.
Additionally, use :file meta as a standard way for the REPL to allow external tool using the repl to specify the source context:
The repl is finding :file meta and binding SOURCE_PATH if it sees it.
Patch: clj-1079-2.patch
Refreshed patch to apply cleanly to master after the recent off by one patch for :column metadata.
This feels backwards to me. If a special purpose tool wants to convey information via metadata, why does it use names that collide with those used by LispReader?
The information being conveyed is the same :line and :column metadata conveyed by LispReader — in fact, that's where it comes from in the first place.
Kibit (and cljx) is essentially an out-of-band source transformation tool. Given an input like this:
…it produces two files, a .clj for Clojure, and a .cljs for ClojureScript. (The first code listing in the ticket description is the former.)
However, because there's no way to transform Clojure code/data without losing formatting, anything that depends on line/column numbers (stack traces, stepping debuggers) is significantly degraded. If LispReader were to defer to :line and :column metadata already available on the loaded forms (there when the two generated files are spit out with print-meta on), this would not be the case.
clj-1079-patch-v2.txt dated Feb 7 2013 is identical to Chas's CLJ-1079.diff dated Oct 7 2012, except it applies cleanly to latest master. I believe the only difference is that some white space in the context lines is updated.
Sorry for the noise. I've removed clj-1079-patch-v2.txt mentioned in the previous comment, because I learned that CLJ-1079.diff dated Oct 7 2012 applies cleanly to latest master and passes all tests if you use this command to apply it.
% git am --keep-cr -s --ignore-whitespace < CLJ-1079.diff
I will update the JIRA workflow page instructions for applying patches to mention this, too, because there are multiple patches that fail without --ignore-whitespace, but apply cleanly with that option. That will eliminate the need to update patches merely for whitespace changes.