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Disappeared visit tracking #369

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Resyntax relies on the expander to find what forms it should analyze. This means that macros which circumvent the expander, like for, match, and syntax-parse, can hide forms from Resyntax. This is why Resyntax can't currently refactor (in-range a (add1 b)) to (in-inclusive-range a b) when inside a for clause. Similar issues exist for refactoring match patterns and syntax-parse patterns.

A fix to this would be to extend Racket with a 'disappeared-visit property, similar to the 'disappeared-use property, that macros can attach to syntax objects produced during "manual expansion". Integration with syntax-local-apply-transformer would also be nice. The syntax property should contain the syntax object that the macro manually expanded. In the case of for, that would be the right-hand-side of clauses when they contain sequence transformers. Resyntax can then search for this property in expanded code to find expansion visits that weren't otherwise visible.

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