When a module provides a config key whose value is a slice (e.g.
cascade or permalinks), and the site config declares the same key as a
map with only a merge strategy marker (_merge = 'deep'), the types do
not match and Params.merge silently dropped the module's value, leaving
the site with no effective cascade or permalink config from the module.
Fix Params.merge so that when the destination value is an empty Params
(IsZero — only the _merge key is present) and the source value is a
non-Params type, the source value is used provided the user-declared
merge strategy is not 'none'. This honours the explicit _merge
directive regardless of the surrounding shallow-merge context.
Closes#13869
Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Go's stdlid now has a maps package, which is very useful. We have been using imports on the form `xmaps "maps"`, but auto import tools doesn't handle this, which is annoying.
I have been thinking about this for some time, but have been holding back because of all the import changes. However, now is a good time to do this, with very little unmerged code.
Joe Mooring