# Relative \`eval\`
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [November 10, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382 "2018-11-10T11:36:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 11:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382/1 "2018-11-10T11:36:05Z")
Is it possible to use `eval` of the enclosing module? So if I have:
```julia
module A
@eval x = 1
end
module B
using ..A
end
```
I would like to get a handle for `B` inside `A` and pass that as the first argument to `@eval`. Is such a thing possible? `Base.parentmodule` is not what I want.
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### Author:  [@mauro3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mauro3)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 12:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382/2 "2018-11-10T12:48:49Z")
Do you mean something like:
```julia
julia> module A
end
Main.A
julia> A.eval(:(x=1));
julia> A.x
1
```
?
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### Author:  [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 1:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382/3 "2018-11-10T13:03:38Z")
No not really, it’s the opposite. I want to be able to evaluate expressions in `Main` from `A` if I ran `using A` in `Main`, but not just `Main`, any module that calls `using A`.
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### Author:  [@yuyichao](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/yuyichao)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382/4 "2018-11-10T13:04:43Z")
No. There’s no relation between `A` and `B`.
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### Author:  [@mohamed82008](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mohamed82008)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2018, 1:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/relative-eval/17382/5 "2018-11-10T13:11:38Z")
Ok, thanks.