Do syntax for macro invocations no longer works (v0.7)

General Usage
1

I have this macro definition:

julia> macro foreach(f, arr)
         quote
           isempty($arr) && return ""
           mapreduce(*, $arr) do _s
             $f(_s)
           end
         end
       end
@foreach (macro with 1 method)

In Julia v0.6 this works:

julia> @foreach(["a", "b", "c"]) do (x)
             x
       end
"abc"

In Julia v0.7 it doesn’t:

julia> @foreach(["a", "b", "c"]) do (x)
             x
       end
ERROR: syntax: invalid macro usage "@(foreach(["a", "b", "c"]) do x
    # REPL[11], line 2
    x
end)"

Why not and how to get it back? :worried:

2

It works for me in 0.7.0-alpha.197

(Why are you writing a macro and not a function here, or for that matter using the built-in foreach function?)

Related: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/15730

3

Likely fixed by https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/27538

4

@kristoffer.carlsson Awesome, thank you very much. I’m on 0.7.0-alpha.0 – I’ll update my Julia.

@stevengj it’s a helper which needs to do exactly that, a mapreduce over *. A real-life example is

@foreach(tweets) do tweet
  include_template("app/resources/tweets/views/partials/tweet.flax.html")
end

I think I ended up with the macro a while ago, most likely because Base.foreach already existed and the functions would have had the same signature. I’ve added a foreachstr function now but it’s an uglier name.