In the official documentary, a macro example is provided: macro time(ex) return quote local t0 = time() local val = $ex local t1 = time() println("elapsed time: ", t1-t0, " seconds") val end end After this macro, a problem is immediately brought up: …

How is macro arguments resolved?

cstjean August 9, 2017, 6:28pm 10

It’s also possible to just escape everything and use gensym to avoid name collisions.

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