Hi Julians, The question relates to Symbols and metaprogramming, been through the docs many times but still getting my head around it. I’ve been struggling to pinpoint a bug in my code for the last 2 days and at last I’ve reduced it to this minimal example, can anyone help me understand what’s goi…

Eval always happens in the global scope. This makes sense because functions are essentially statically compiled so they don’t really have dynamic behavior (giving the speed). If course, if you want to do metaprogramming inside of a function, just metaprogram the AST (and return expressions) or use a…

Struggling to understand this Symbol behaviour - Scope determines error presence?

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kristoffer.carlsson June 28, 2018, 10:57am 8

julia> @macroexpand @eval println($foo)
:((Base.Core).eval(Main, (Core._expr)(:call, :println, foo)))

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Struggling to understand this Symbol behaviour - Scope determines error presence?

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