I have defined a macro called @m.trial which simply escapes its argument and feeds into the @identity macro. The @identity macro is defined as (not escaped at the moment intentionally): macro identity(x) x end @m.trial a doesn’t work as expected. Lets define a=0 in the Main module. @m.trial @…

Your hypothesis for the order of macro expansion expand @outer expand @inner apply hygiene for @inner apply hygiene for @outer agrees with my experiments. Have you noticed any inconsistencies with this hypothesis ?

Calling a macro within a macro

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johnmyleswhite March 24, 2021, 1:36am 2

One previous discussion of some issues involved here: Nested macros and esc

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Calling a macro within a macro

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