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**What type of PR is this?** Feature **What package or component does this PR mostly affect?** all **What does this PR do? Why is it needed?** This makes it easier to emit standardized globs from gazelle languages without complex logic to verify the exact set of patterns needed. (Especially since merging globs doesn't seem to work correctly in all cases) While here, I tweaked how we emit True/False literals to align with how they're parsed by `buildtools`, otherwise we had to handle multiple ways to parse `allow_empty = True` (both Literal and Ident). I can revert this bit if we think it's unsafe or was done like this intentionally, but it felt like matching what the parser itself would emit is better **Which issues(s) does this PR fix?** Fixes # **Other notes for review** Co-authored-by: Jay Conrod <jay@engflow.com>
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What type of PR is this?
Feature
What package or component does this PR mostly affect?
all
What does this PR do? Why is it needed?
This makes it easier to emit standardized globs from gazelle languages without complex logic to verify the exact set of patterns needed. (Especially since merging globs doesn't seem to work correctly in all cases)
While here, I tweaked how we emit True/False literals to align with how they're parsed by
buildtools, otherwise we had to handle multiple ways to parseallow_empty = True(both Literal and Ident). I can revert this bit if we think it's unsafe or was done like this intentionally, but it felt like matching what the parser itself would emit is betterWhich issues(s) does this PR fix?
Fixes #
Other notes for review