spreadsheet = DataFrame( date=["Jan 1, 2019"], #start of the new year #List of Accounts # Start of 2019 #Assets chequing=[0], #replace with balance as of Jan 1, 2019 accounts_reciveable=[0], #replace with balance as of Jan 1, 2019 #Debts #Debts--Credit when owed payment, Debit when r…

According to @macroexpand, that expands to julia> push!(spreadsheet, (defaultRow..., chequing = 1000, wages = 1000, Date = "Jan 1, 2019", memo = "this is a test")) ERROR: AbstractDataFrame is not iterable. Use eachrow(df) to get a row iterator or eachcol(df) to get a column iterator The error is h…

This whole thing was a mess. I got it all to work,

Might look at [image] How to warn new users away from metaprogramming Internals & Design Metaprogramming is a great feature of Julia, allowing advanced users to introduce syntactic extensions with macros, and work around code optimization problems using generated function…

Is metaprograming different than macros?

I’d say macros are a prominent kind of metaprogramming (there are other kinds ). Generated functions are another (though often created using macros).

I can see where that is useful. I think I can do almost everything with a macro, and I want to get that figured out first. The problem I’m having now, is entering the name of an array or a DataFrame column as a string.

[image] brett_knoss: I think I can do almost everything with a macro To be clear, my point is that macros are almost always unnecessary and create confusion. I think this is an example of that: unless I’m misunderstanding your goal, there is no need to use a macro here, and you shouldn’t use …

Here (in this thread, out of 3) we get the defaultRow shown, which I was missing in the other thread and which I asked for. With this information, I can try to help perhaps a step further. I understand it like, defaultRow holds the default information, which should be pushed into the DataFrame, if …

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jzr June 1, 2021, 4:54am 4

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