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Reflection Library for the Scala Programming Language
/*
* Scala (https://www.scala-lang.org)
*
* Copyright EPFL and Lightbend, Inc.
*
* Licensed under Apache License 2.0
* (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).
*
* See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for
* additional information regarding copyright ownership.
*/
package scala
package reflect
/**
* EXPERIMENTAL
*
* The base package for Scala macros.
*
* Macros are functions that are called by the compiler during compilation.
* Within these functions the programmer has access to compiler APIs.
* For example, it is possible to generate, analyze and typecheck code.
*
* See the [[http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html Macros Guide]] on how to get started with Scala macros.
*/
package object macros {
/** The Scala macros context.
*
* In Scala 2.11, macros that were once the one are split into blackbox and whitebox macros,
* with the former being better supported and the latter being more powerful. You can read about
* the details of the split and the associated trade-offs in the [[http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/overview.html Macros Guide]].
*
* `scala.reflect.macros.Context` follows this tendency and turns into `scala.reflect.macros.blackbox.Context`
* and `scala.reflect.macros.whitebox.Context`. The original `Context` is left in place for compatibility reasons,
* but it is now deprecated, nudging the users to choose between blackbox and whitebox macros.
*/
@deprecated("use blackbox.Context or whitebox.Context instead", "2.11.0")
type Context = whitebox.Context
}