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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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call_ext.rs Allow NU_LIBS_DIR and friends to be const (#8538) 2023-04-05 19:56:48 +03:00
column.rs revert: move to ahash (#9464) 2023-06-18 15:27:57 +12:00
documentation.rs Change input/output types in help to a table (#9686) 2023-07-15 06:23:21 +12:00
env.rs Fix broken constants in scopes (#9679) 2023-07-14 00:02:05 +03:00
eval.rs Module: support defining const and use const variables inside of function (#9773) 2023-08-01 07:09:52 +08:00
glob_from.rs allow paths to have brackets (#9416) 2023-06-13 07:30:10 -05:00
lib.rs split $nu variable into scope commands and simpler $nu (#9487) 2023-06-21 09:33:01 +12:00
scope.rs Replace &Span with Span since Span is Copy (#9770) 2023-07-31 21:47:46 +02:00