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/*
 * Scala (https://www.scala-lang.org)
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 * Copyright EPFL and Lightbend, Inc.
 *
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 * (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
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package scala.reflect.reify
package codegen

trait GenPositions {
  self: Reifier =>

  import global._

  // we do not reify positions because this inflates resulting trees, but doesn't buy as anything
  // where would one use positions? right, in error messages
  // but I can hardly imagine when one would need a position that points to the reified code
  // usually reified trees are used to compose macro expansions or to be fed to the runtime compiler
  // however both macros and toolboxes have their own means to report errors in synthetic trees
  def reifyPosition(pos: Position): Tree =
    reifyMirrorObject(NoPosition)
}