# Calling a macro from within a macro, revisited

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/calling-a-macro-from-within-a-macro-revisited/19680>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [January 15, 2019, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/calling-a-macro-from-within-a-macro-revisited/19680 "2019-01-15T22:27:01Z")\
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> [@tjgreen](#):
>
> Can you think of a generic implementation that doesn’t make any assumptions about the shape of the underlying macro’s arguments?

Yes,

```Julia
macro retestset1(arg)
    :(@testset$(Expr(arg.head,esc.(arg.args)...))
end

```

simply replace `:block` with `arg.head`

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