@code_llvm, @code_native, etc. macros?

[quinnj]

Similar to the @which macro, could we also have the code_... family of functions available as macros? That would allow one to check generated code even faster:

@code_llvm Date(2014,2,4)

would translate to a call of:

code_llvm(Date,(Int64,Int64,Int64))

This would be a pull request, but my meta chops are probably not quite Base-worthy, after taking a look at the @which implementation.

[quinnj]

cc: @astrieanna

[johnmyleswhite]

This seems like it might be a bit brittle since the only input types that could be reasoned about by the macro are those with literal syntax that uniquely defines the types: Int, Float64 and ByteString. For most other functions I'm not sure how'd you make this work.

[simonster]

You could just rewrite @code_llvm f(x, y, z) to code_llvm(f, (typeof(x), typeof(y), typeof(z))), no?

[johnmyleswhite]

That's true: you could defer type knowledge to runtime.

[JeffBezanson]

Yes, @simonster has the right idea.

[filmackay]

great idea

[ivarne]

I want @less and @edit also. Sometimes I just want to see the source of the function instead of the file and line that I get from @which

[mbauman]

Closed by #5832.