Make string reference expansion opt-in#591
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* Retain references to string definitions in the default parse stack. * Document and test explicit interpolation before enclosure removal. * Preserve macro linkage during ordinary parse/write use.
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Summary
@stringdefinitions in the default parse stack.ResolveStringReferencesMiddlewareavailable as an explicit dereferencing choice.Closes #590.
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pytest -p no:cacheprovider -W error tests/middleware_tests/test_interpolate.py: 5 passed.tests/test_entrypoint.py.Review note
This is a user-visible default change: callers who rely on immediate literal values must add
ResolveStringReferencesMiddlewareexplicitly. The reason for proposing it is that default expansion is irreversible during a write—macro linkage is semantic information, and the original reference cannot be reconstructed reliably from its expanded text.The PR deliberately uses basic references and does not depend on the broader concatenation work discussed in #396.
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