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Simplify the macro hygiene algorithm
This PR removes renaming from the hygiene algorithm and treats differently marked identifiers as unequal.
This change makes the scope of identifiers in `macro_rules!` items empty. That is, identifiers in `macro_rules!` definitions do not inherit any semantics from the `macro_rules!`'s scope.
Since `macro_rules!` macros are items, the scope of their identifiers "should" be the same as that of other items; in particular, the scope should contain only items. Since all items are unhygienic today, this would mean the scope should be empty.
However, the scope of an identifier in a `macro_rules!` statement today is the scope that the identifier would have if it replaced the `macro_rules!` (excluding anything unhygienic, i.e. locals only).
To continue to support this, this PR tracks the scope of each `macro_rules!` and uses it in `resolve` to ensure that an identifier expanded from a `macro_rules!` gets a chance to resolve to the locals in the `macro_rules!`'s scope.
This PR is a pure refactoring. After this PR,
- `syntax::ext::expand` is much simpler.
- We can expand macros in any order without causing problems for hygiene (needed for macro modularization).
- We can deprecate or remove today's `macro_rules!` scope easily.
- Expansion performance improves by 25%, post-expansion memory usage decreases by ~5%.
- Expanding a block is no longer quadratic in the number of `let` statements (fixes#10607).
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