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This comment was originally written by @seaneagan

mailing list discussion:

https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/d/msg/misc/a0Fk1XSn6Fc/1DJvkLIkjc4J

Refining some ideas from there:

1. Symbol literal extensions:

symbolLiteral:
  librarySymbolLiteral libraryMemberSymbolLiteral?
| librarySymbolLiteral? classSymbolLiteral classMemberSymbolLiteral?
| classMemberSymbolLiteral

librarySymbolLiteral: ‘#’ identifier (‘.’ identifier)*

classSymbolLiteral: ‘#’ qualified

classMemberSymbolLiteral: ‘#’ operator | (identifier '='?)

libraryMemberSymbolLiteral: ‘#’ identifier '='?

Examples:

#MyClass
#MyClass#myMember
#MyClass#+
#MyClass#staticMethod
#my.lib.name
#my.lib.name#topLevel
#my.lib.name#MyClass#myMember

Dot-less library identifiers could still conflict with class or member identifiers, but at least class identifiers have different naming conventions (UpperCamelCase).

2. More explicit Symbol constructors:

class Symbol {
  const Symbol.fromType(Type type, [Symbol member]);
  const Symbol.fromLibrary(Symbol libraryName, [Symbol member]);
  //...
}

Examples:

const Symbol.fromType(MyClass)
const Symbol.fromType(MyClass, #myMember)
const Symbol.fromType(MyClass, #+)
const Symbol.fromType(MyClass, #staticMethod)
const Symbol.fromLibrary(#my.lib.name)
const Symbol.fromLibrary(#my.lib.name, #topLevel)

which could be improved a tiny bit with first class libraries.

This comment was originally written by greg.lo...@gmail.com

I just caught by doing a refactor rename of a field, and forgot to update the name of a symbol in my code. I understand, that it usually will not be possible to rename these automatically as the symbol could refer to any number of methods/getters in the code.

But perhaps the editor could provide a warning if there are symbols with a matching name which may need to be updated.

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This comment was originally written by @zoechi

I guess https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=15793 could be solved with this one too if Symbol would expose a name property to get the string back from the symbol.

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This comment was originally written by @Andersmholmgren

Oh no :-(. How come?

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Did you mean to set Oldschool-Milestone-7 ?

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It was "Oldschool-Milestone-1.6", so I just moved it to the next version when we possibly could do it.

I somehow lost this Oldschool-Milestone-1.7 label.

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:) Oldschool was just a housekeeping thing. We're want to avoid pushing issues from milestone to milestone, so best to leave milestone off for now. Thanks for reopening and recategorizing!

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