Is Compat.jl worth it for the `public` keyword?

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In general there’s something fishy with the parsing of public, regardless of compat considerations. One would expect it to parse similar to export, but it doesn’t.

julia> begin
           export foo
       end

julia> begin
           public foo
ERROR: ParseError:
# Error @ REPL[3]:2:12
begin
    public foo
#          └─┘ ── Expected `end`
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL:1

and

julia> :(export foo)
:(export foo)

julia> :(public foo)
ERROR: ParseError:
# Error @ REPL[5]:1:10
:(public foo)
#        └─┘ ── Expected `)`
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL:1