meta-ticket: Quasiquotes are no longer being improved

[SethTisue]

pull requests against quasiquote support (which has always been experimental) in scala.reflect will certainly be considered, but it's now been a long time since anyone has touched it. rather than leave a bunch of tickets open on it, let's just have this one

[SethTisue]

closed the following quasiquotes tickets:

• Quasiquote splicing for empty lists misbehaves during trait instantiation #7945
• Creation of names prefixed with other names isn't straightforward in quasiquotes #8078
• Make extraction of repetitive code patterns easier in quasiquotes #8164
• There is no easy way to position nested trees in a quasiquote #8250
• There is no easy way to extract types from nested trees in quasiquote #8257
• reify shouldn't unexpand macros #6115
• Macro expansion throws a RuntimeException during the tail call elimination phase #7829
• Quasiquotes fail to match a typechecked case class #8312
• Quasiquotes fail to match class modifiers inside block #8313
• Can't match classOf after typechecking with quasiquotes #8384
• q"trait X" doesn't match q"trait X{}" #8396
• Trait pattern quasiquote might not match interface traits without mods #8399
• Consider different syntax alternatives for quasiquotes #8401
• QQ crash extracting nested xml #8436
• Quasiquotes bottom type check is too restrictive #8452
• Allow unquoting names as function expression arguments #8455
• Quasiquotes can't parse mods on first member in template body #8458
• Persist comments in trees generated by quasiquotes #8470
• weird syntax necessary to write a lambda quasiquote #8480
• can't splice names into lambda parameters #8481
• names don't get converted to binds when spliced into patterns #8482
• weird trees are created when an ident is spliced into a function parameter's name #8770
• regression in ClassDef quasiquotes in 2.11.2 under -Yrangepos #8771
• StackOverflow in importers when a symbol has an existential info #8833
• Unquoting of options with ..$ produces unexpected results #8972
• extra () in Tree causing pain #9320
• Strange inliner behavior after upgrading to 2.11.7 #9372
• Quasiquotes do not pattern match Java static method #9404
• Anonymous class creation with empty body list in quasiquotes #10691
• Scala 2.11.12 quasi-quote interpolation "losing" trees in nested macros invocations #10745