Creating a variable inside a macro with specified name

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I think it might be useful to have a read at this other discourse post:

Escaping in a macro

In the documentation of Julia v1.0 there is almost nothing about escaping in a macro. I tried a simple debug function, which can be inserted at critical points of a function. It should print an expression or variable name, and its current value. I defined a macro in a module, but I get weird messages (b = c =) at loading the module, and within a function only the last value of several calls to the macro is actually shown in REPL. If I type in REPL @db(1+2) or a = falses(2); @db(a) I get the de…

to have a better understanding of escaping in macros.

As written there, each input generally has to be escaped once and exactly once.

So for your added example, you also just avoid escaping model (like done for args in the previous answer) inside this line:

ref = :(add_variable($(esc(model)),$(args)))

as it will anyhow be escaped once you escape the quote returned by the macro.