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Puzzling namespace-less help message for an unexported binding #52472

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jishnub opened this issue Dec 10, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #52524
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Puzzling namespace-less help message for an unexported binding #52472

jishnub opened this issue Dec 10, 2023 · 1 comment · Fixed by #52524
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jishnub commented Dec 10, 2023

help?> IteratorSize
search: IteratorSize Iterators IteratorEltype iterate

Couldn't find IteratorSize
Perhaps you meant IteratorSize or Iterators
  No documentation found.

  Binding IteratorSize does not exist.

The suggestion should probably read "Perhaps you meant Base.IteratorSize or Iterators", as otherwise what's going wrong is a bit unclear. Something similar may also be needed for the terms displayed in the first line after search:.

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julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.11.0-DEV.1030
Commit b5abac441db (2023-12-06 05:12 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org/ release
Platform Info:
  OS: Linux (x86_64-linux-gnu)
  CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1135G7 @ 2.40GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
  Threads: 1 on 8 virtual cores
Environment:
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH = :/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-3.0/modules
  JULIA_EDITOR = subl
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This seems to be because names now includes public bindings, not only exported bindings. I think this could be fixed by amending the accessible function in the REPL stdlib to add isexported to the filtering and restore the original behavior.

KristofferC pushed a commit that referenced this issue Feb 8, 2024
Fixes #52472, which was caused by `names` being changed to also return
public, unexported symbols in #50105. Note that this restores previous
behavior. A case could be made to instead add the public, unexported
bindings as suggestions with the appropriate qualification.

Not entirely sure how to test this so I'd welcome any suggestions.

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Co-authored-by: Jameson Nash <vtjnash@gmail.com>
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