# Scope in metaprogramming

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/scope-in-metaprogramming/2378>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [March 1, 2017, 9:34am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/scope-in-metaprogramming/2378 "2017-03-01T09:34:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkborregaard](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkborregaard/32/556_2.png) [@mkborregaard](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkborregaard)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 11:21am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/scope-in-metaprogramming/2378/17 "2017-03-02T11:21:15Z")

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In case anyone was curious, the code was for a recipe to plot the dependency structure of julia packages. These plots are quite interesting (focal package red, packages depending on that are green, dependencies of the focal package (and by extension also all the green packages) are blue).

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/e/debae898055b163e5304517a166d7a618a0242b3.png)

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