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f90fd72c - Main entrypoint take 3 - revenge of the macro (#51435)

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Main entrypoint take 3 - revenge of the macro (#51435) As they say, if at first you don't succeed, try again, then try again, add an extra layer of indirection and take a little bit of spice from every other idea and you've got yourself a wedding cake. Or something like that, I don't know - at times it felt like this cake was getting a bit burnt. Where was I? Ah yes. This is the third edition of the main saga (#50974, #51417). In this version, the spelling that we'd expect for the main use case is: ``` function (@main)(ARGS) println("Hello World") end ``` This syntax was originally proposed by `@vtjnash`. However, the semantics here are slightly different. `@main` simply expands to `main`, so the above is equivalent to: ``` function main(ARGS) println("Hello World") end @main ``` So `@main` is simply a marker that the `main` binding has special behavior. This way, all the niceceties of import/export, etc. can still be used as in the original `Main.main` proposal, but there is an explicit opt-in and feature detect macro to avoid executing this when people do not expect. Additionally, there is a smooth upgrade path if we decide to automatically enable `Main.main` in Julia 2.0.
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