Circumvent removal of append_any from nightly (fixes #282) (#286)

Author: timholy

bin/generate_builtins.jl

@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ function maybe_evaluate_builtin(frame, call_expr, expand::Bool)
         end
         new_expr = Expr(:call, argswrapped[1])
         popfirst!(argswrapped)
-        argsflat = Base.append_any(argswrapped...)
+        argsflat = append_any(argswrapped...)
         for x in argsflat
             push!(new_expr.args, (isa(x, Symbol) || isa(x, Expr) || isa(x, QuoteNode)) ? QuoteNode(x) : x)
         end

src/JuliaInterpreter.jl

@@ -28,6 +28,12 @@ end
 
 const SlotNamesType = VERSION < v"1.2.0-DEV.606" ? Vector{Any} : Vector{Symbol}
 
+@static if VERSION < v"1.3.0-DEV.179"
+    const append_any = Base.append_any
+else
+    append_any(@nospecialize x...) = append!([], Core.svec((x...)...))
+end
+
 include("types.jl")
 include("utils.jl")
 include("construct.jl")

src/builtins.jl

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ function maybe_evaluate_builtin(frame, call_expr, expand::Bool)
         end
         new_expr = Expr(:call, argswrapped[1])
         popfirst!(argswrapped)
-        argsflat = Base.append_any(argswrapped...)
+        argsflat = append_any(argswrapped...)
         for x in argsflat
             push!(new_expr.args, (isa(x, Symbol) || isa(x, Expr) || isa(x, QuoteNode)) ? QuoteNode(x) : x)
         end
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ function maybe_evaluate_builtin(frame, call_expr, expand::Bool)
         end
         new_expr = Expr(:call, argswrapped[1])
         popfirst!(argswrapped)
-        argsflat = Base.append_any(argswrapped...)
+        argsflat = append_any(argswrapped...)
         for x in argsflat
             push!(new_expr.args, (isa(x, Symbol) || isa(x, Expr) || isa(x, QuoteNode)) ? QuoteNode(x) : x)
         end

src/construct.jl

@@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ function prepare_args(@nospecialize(f), allargs, kwargs)
         allargs = [f, namedtuple(kwargs), allargs...]
     elseif f === Core._apply
         f = to_function(allargs[2])
-        allargs = Base.append_any((allargs[2],), allargs[3:end]...)
+        allargs = append_any((allargs[2],), allargs[3:end]...)
     end
     return f, allargs
 end