Parameterized load() statements?

[facebook]

Parameterized load() statements?

[thoughtpolice]

I was mostly doing it to keep some code centralized in top.bxl, but I just simplified the example a bunch here. That said, I figured it would be a lot of rigamarole to get this working since it seems like this is a pretty fundamental change, so I figured I'd just open a ticket and ask. :)

So I think for now I'll just do some refactoring another way and close this. In the future a parameterized load() statement might be useful but another ticket is probably better for that, since this case can be handled another way. (I mean I can probably think of some good use cases if you gave me some time, but I don't have any other ones right now.)

[ndmitchell]

Why are you defining all your bxl rules in the same file? Would it be easier to have them in separate files? Is this your #86 approach? Could you change that alias so it was $1.bxl:$1?

We follow the Starlark standard from https://github.com/bazelbuild/starlark/blob/master/spec.md, so our usual way of extending would be to propose additions to the language. This does seem quite a departure from the existing approach though.