Extend backdating checks to imports and globals #59735
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Previously, backdated binding warnings were only emitted for constants. This commit extends the backdating mechanism to handle imports and globals. This change was requested by triage to improve compatibility of the new binding partition mechanism given issues like #58511. With this change the behavior is as follows: ```julia julia> function foo() include_string(Main, "a = 42") return a end julia> foo() WARNING: Detected access to binding `Main.a` in a world prior to its definition world. Julia 1.12 has introduced more strict world age semantics for global bindings. !!! This code may malfunction under Revise. !!! This code will error in future versions of Julia. Hint: Add an appropriate `invokelatest` around the access to this binding. To make this warning an error, and hence obtain a stack trace, use `julia --depwarn=error`. 42 ``` With `julia --depwarn=error`, the access is rejected: ```julia julia> foo() ERROR: UndefVarError: `a` not defined in `Main` ``` I am still not a huge fan of the backdating mechanism in general, but I think this is the least objectionable of the alternatives and provides a big warning to let people know that something is wrong.
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I pretty much think this is too risky to put in this late in the release process, and that the current status quo is the lesser evil. For example, this PR fails CI on a random assortment of tests, and Revise stops working: |
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Also remove `isdefined` shim, as that feels less logical to me with the current implementation that uses invokelatest. If the implementation was changed to use `invokenext`, I think it would make sense to add that back and also to update `names` to return these also. But invoke next (similar to backdated constants and #59735) prints an incorrect suggestion of using invokelatest to get the same behavior. That message is correct with this current commit state, but wrong relative to the current implementations that use backdated.
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Rebinding test failure is #59613, so we should merge that first. |
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effects.jl is the combination of a pre-existing codegen model bug (will PR separately) with #59613 |
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Previously, backdated binding warnings were only emitted for constants. This commit extends the backdating mechanism to handle imports and globals. This change was requested by triage to improve compatibility of the new binding partition mechanism given issues like #58511.
With this change the behavior is as follows:
With
julia --depwarn=error, the access is rejected:I am still not a huge fan of the backdating mechanism in general, but I think this is the least objectionable of the alternatives and provides a big warning to let people know that something is wrong.
Largely written by Claude.