Re: [PATCH] rust: macros: update 'paste!' macro to accept string literals

[Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>]

On Sun,  8 Oct 2023 05:48:18 -0400
Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu> wrote:

> Enable combining identifiers with string literals in the 'paste!' macro.
> This allows combining user-specified strings with affixes to create
> namespaced identifiers.
> 
> This sample code:
> 
>     macro_rules! m {
>         ($name:lit) => {
>             paste!(struct [<_some_ $name _struct_>];)
>         }
>     }
> 
>     m!("foo_bar");
> 
> Would previously cause a compilation error. It will now generate:
> 
>     struct _some_foo_bar_struct_;
> 
> Reported-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Trevor Gross <tmgross@umich.edu>

Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>

> ---
> 
> Original mention of this problem in [1]
> 
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/20231008.164906.1151622782836568538.fujita.tomonori@gmail.com/
> 
>  rust/macros/paste.rs | 10 +++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/rust/macros/paste.rs b/rust/macros/paste.rs
> index 385a78434224..f40d42b35b58 100644
> --- a/rust/macros/paste.rs
> +++ b/rust/macros/paste.rs
> @@ -9,7 +9,15 @@ fn concat(tokens: &[TokenTree], group_span: Span) -> TokenTree {
>      loop {
>          match tokens.next() {
>              None => break,
> -            Some(TokenTree::Literal(lit)) => segments.push((lit.to_string(), lit.span())),
> +            Some(TokenTree::Literal(lit)) => {
> +                // Allow us to concat string literals by stripping quotes
> +                let mut value = lit.to_string();
> +                if value.starts_with('"') && value.ends_with('"') {
> +                    value.remove(0);
> +                    value.pop();
> +                }
> +                segments.push((value, lit.span()));
> +            }
>              Some(TokenTree::Ident(ident)) => {
>                  let mut value = ident.to_string();
>                  if value.starts_with("r#") {