I was using this basic pattern to define a function but it now fails when called a certain way on v0.6-dev function test(vars) body = :x eval(Expr(:function, Expr(:call, gensym(), map(Symbol,vars)...), body)) end fn = test(["x"]); fn(1) # works test(["x"])(1) …

Help calling a function defined from expressions

cortner January 27, 2018, 6:42pm 8

I’ve struggled a lot with this as well. But from the sounds of it this is here to stay.

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