Hey! I have been trying to make a saving macro to simplify my life and skip having to do the full saving syntax while keeping track of what I’m saving where. To do this, I have started writing a module. The main macro is as follows: macro saving(funcname::String,params...) quote oldfile($funcnam…

Using eval() inside a macro is almost never necessary, and it’s almost always a signal that something has gone wrong. In this case, there’s no need for eval at all. Rather than tackling the full version of your code, here’s a simple example of saving a single variable. First, I defined a stub h5wri…

Problem evaluating symbol for macro inside function

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yakir12 February 11, 2020, 2:37pm 5

Never mind, I found out about Base.@locals, which solved this nicely!

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Problem evaluating symbol for macro inside function

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