expose CELL status of a symbol in symtable
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Description
Feature or enhancement
Proposal:
symtable symbols have the following predicates, but for some reason no is_cell. Is there a reason for this, or should we expose is_cell as well?
'is_annotated', 'is_assigned', 'is_declared_global', 'is_free', 'is_global', 'is_imported', 'is_local', 'is_namespace', 'is_nonlocal', 'is_parameter', 'is_referenced'
The symbol obviously knows whether it's a cell:
>>> st.get_children()[0].get_symbols()[0]._scope_str
<bound method Symbol._scope_str of <symbol 'x': CELL, USE|DEF_LOCAL>>
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Linked PRs
- gh-143549
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Research direction
Start with the symtable Symbol predicates listed in the issue and inspect how the symbol reports its internal CELL scope. The issue links PR gh-143549, so review that work first. Done means the CELL status is exposed through the symtable API consistently with the existing predicates.
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- python
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- compilers
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- Feature
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