How to get the name of macro calling function?

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In general, my advice when writing macros is to forget you’re writing a macro and ask “how do I do X in code?” Then you just generate that code inside your macro.

With that in mind, I think the answers to your question are likely to be something like:

  • StackTraces.stacktrace()[1].func
  • @__MODULE__
module M

macro m()
    quote
        println(StackTraces.stacktrace()[1].func)
        println(@__MODULE__)
    end
end

function f()
    @m()
    return
end

end

julia> M.f()
f
Main.M
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