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Module: support defining const and use const variables inside of function (#9773)
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Relative: #8248 

After this pr, user can define const variable inside a module.

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/22256154/e3e03e56-c4b5-4144-a944-d1b20bec1cbd)

And user can export const variables, the following screenshot shows how
it works (it follows
https://github.com/nushell/nushell/issues/8248#issuecomment-1637442612):

![image](https://github.com/nushell/nushell/assets/22256154/b2c14760-3f27-41cc-af77-af70a4367f2a)

## About the change
1. To make module support const, we need to change `parse_module_block`
to support `const` keyword.
2. To suport export `const`, we need to make module tracking variables,
so we add `variables` attribute to `Module`
3. During eval, the const variable may not exists in `stack`, because we
don't eval `const` when we define a module, so we need to find variables
which are already registered in `engine_state`

## One more thing to note about the const value.
Consider the following code
```
module foo { const b = 3; export def bar [] { $b } }
use foo bar
const b = 4;
bar
```
The result will be 3 (which is defined in module) rather than 4. I think
it's expected behavior.

It's something like [dynamic
binding](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Dynamic-Binding-Tips.html)
vs [lexical
binding](https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Lexical-Binding.html)
in lisp like language, and lexical binding should be right behavior
which generates more predicable result, and it doesn't introduce really
subtle bugs in nushell code.

What if user want dynamic-binding?(For example: the example code returns
`4`)
There is no way to do this, user should consider passing the value as
argument to custom command rather than const.

## TODO
- [X] adding tests for the feature.
- [X] support export const out of module to use.

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2023-08-01 07:09:52 +08:00
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src Module: support defining const and use const variables inside of function (#9773) 2023-08-01 07:09:52 +08:00
tests Clean up tests containing unnecessary cwd: tokens (#9692) 2023-07-17 18:43:51 +02:00
Cargo.toml bump to dev version 0.83.2 (#9866) 2023-07-30 22:16:57 +02:00
LICENSE Fix rest of license year ranges (#8727) 2023-04-04 09:03:29 +12:00
README.md Add nu-protocol 2021-09-02 13:29:43 +12:00

nu-protocol

The nu-protocol crate holds the definitions of structs/traits that are used throughout Nushell. This gives us one way to expose them to many other crates, as well as make these definitions available to each other, without causing mutually recursive dependencies.