InteractiveUtils: access bindings in fixed world
InteractiveUtils provides a number of utilities for querying and
accessing the contents of modules. Because these modules can gain new
bindings, some callers of InteractiveUtils functions produce warnings
WARNING: Detected access to binding ... prior to its definition world.
One dramatic example occurs with the sequence
using OptimizationProblems: OptimizationProblems
using OptimizationProblems.ADNLPProblems
using ADNLPModels: ADNLPModel
when running with Revise. ADNLPProblems loads new problems via Requires,
and starting with v3.13 Revise queries `InteractiveUtils.subtypes` to
cache dependent fieldtypes. This triggers the warning.
To fix this, add `defined_since` and `world` keyword arguments to
`names`/`unsorted_names` to filter the returned names by world age.
These are then threaded through `varinfo`, `methodswith`, and `subtypes`
in InteractiveUtils so they operate on bindings in the correct world.
The defaults for `defined_since` and `world` kwargs are set to preserve
the current behavior. Revise will be able to eliminate the warnings by
passing `world=Base.tls_world_age()` to `subtypes`.
Related: https://github.com/timholy/Revise.jl/issues/993
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
