Allow @nocompile on a per function basis

[arciisine]

I have a scenario in which I want the closure compiler to ignore certain regions of code. Right now,

/*@nocompile*/

seems to work on a per file level, but I need to be able to do it a function level. Ultimately this could be at any block level, but function is the safest bet with var and function declarations.

[dimvar]

We don't plan to support @nocompile on a more fine-grained level than we do now.

What is it that you're trying to do, and need nocompile per function?

[arciisine]

The gist of the issue, is that I have nested functions that are being optimized by closure, but I need access to the original code as I have other transformations I need to do as well. Essentially closure is making good decisions with what it knows at the moment, but those decisions are breaking the assumptions my other transformations are making.

[arciisine]

As a follow up, I can rewrite my code to ensure my assumptions are valid, but this will occur every time closure optimizes in a way that breaks my assumptions. Ultimately I was hoping to be able to ignore certain regions of code as to ensure my transformations will always be valid.

[dimvar]

Are you transforming the code after compilation? What kind of transformation are you doing?

[arciisine]

My transformation is being applied at runtime, and after I transform the code, I run it through the closure compiler to optimize my transformation. This process can recurse infinitely through nested functions, and that is where I'm running into problems. I want to optimize everything but the nested function as that input needs to be in the original form to be fed into my transformation.

[dimvar]

I see. We use nocompile to drop files that don't follow the compiler assumptions from the compilation. We don't plan to provide such fine-grained control of the optimizer.

[arciisine]

Thanks for the response. I will need to find other ways to handle this.