rename SymbolIdx -> Symbol, Symbol -> SymbolStr

after #6218 `Symbol` no longer confers a uniqueness invariant on the
string it wraps, it is now possible to create multiple symbols that
compare equal but whose string contents have different addresses. this
guarantee is now only provided by `SymbolIdx`, leaving `Symbol` only as
a string wrapper that knows about the intricacies of how symbols need to
be formatted for output.

this change renames `SymbolIdx` to `Symbol` to restore the previous
semantics of `Symbol` to that name. we also keep the wrapper type and
rename it to `SymbolStr` instead of returning plain strings from lookups
into the symbol table because symbols are formatted for output in many
places. theoretically we do not need `SymbolStr`, only a function that
formats a string for output as a symbol, but having to wrap every symbol
that appears in a message into eg `formatSymbol()` is error-prone and
inconvient.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
index 36a67a39d..40e9f7091 100644
--- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc
+++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ typedef std::list<Value *> ValueList;
 static Bindings::iterator getAttr(
     EvalState & state,
     std::string_view funcName,
-    SymbolIdx attrSym,
+    Symbol attrSym,
     Bindings * attrSet,
     const PosIdx pos)
 {
@@ -2047,7 +2047,7 @@ static void prim_path(EvalState & state, const PosIdx pos, Value * * args, Value
     PathSet context;
 
     for (auto & attr : *args[0]->attrs) {
-        auto & n(state.symbols[attr.name]);
+        auto n = state.symbols[attr.name];
         if (n == "path")
             path = state.coerceToPath(attr.pos, *attr.value, context);
         else if (attr.name == state.sName)
@@ -2314,7 +2314,7 @@ static void prim_listToAttrs(EvalState & state, const PosIdx pos, Value * * args
 
     auto attrs = state.buildBindings(args[0]->listSize());
 
-    std::set<SymbolIdx> seen;
+    std::set<Symbol> seen;
 
     for (auto v2 : args[0]->listItems()) {
         state.forceAttrs(*v2, pos);
@@ -2517,7 +2517,7 @@ static void prim_zipAttrsWith(EvalState & state, const PosIdx pos, Value * * arg
     // attribute with the merge function application. this way we need not
     // use (slightly slower) temporary storage the GC does not know about.
 
-    std::map<SymbolIdx, std::pair<size_t, Value * *>> attrsSeen;
+    std::map<Symbol, std::pair<size_t, Value * *>> attrsSeen;
 
     state.forceFunction(*args[0], pos);
     state.forceList(*args[1], pos);