Weird behaviour of macrocall in expression

General Usage
1

Is this behavior expected?

julia> dump(Expr(:macrocall, :@inbounds))
Expr
  head: Symbol macrocall
  args: Array{Any}((1,))
    1: Expr
      head: Symbol macrocall
      args: Array{Any}((1,))
        1: Symbol @inbounds
      typ: Any
  typ: Any

Why are there 2 macrocalls?

This is in contrast to:

julia> dump(:(@inbounds nothing))
Expr
  head: Symbol macrocall
  args: Array{Any}((2,))
    1: Symbol @inbounds
    2: Symbol nothing
  typ: Any
2

Maybe:

julia> dump(:@inbounds)
Expr
  head: Symbol macrocall
  args: Array{Any}((1,))
    1: Symbol @inbounds
  typ: Any

julia> dump(Expr(:macrocall, Symbol("@inbounds")))
Expr
  head: Symbol macrocall
  args: Array{Any}((1,))
    1: Symbol @inbounds
  typ: Any
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3

Neat!

4

Btw, it gets even weirder in v0.7. Any idea how to build an @inbounds block in nightly? The following is my source of confusion.

julia> ex = Expr(:macrocall, Symbol("@inbounds"), :(a[1] = 1))
:(@inbounds)

julia> dump(ex)
Expr
  head: Symbol macrocall
  args: Array{Any}((2,))
    1: Symbol @inbounds
    2: Expr
      head: Symbol =
      args: Array{Any}((2,))
        1: Expr
          head: Symbol ref
          args: Array{Any}((2,))
            1: Symbol a
            2: Int64 1
          typ: Any
        2: Int64 1
      typ: Any
  typ: Any

julia> dump(:(@inbounds a[1] = 1))
Expr
  head: Symbol macrocall
  args: Array{Any}((3,))
    1: Symbol @inbounds
    2: LineNumberNode
      line: Int64 1
      file: Symbol REPL[107]
    3: Expr
      head: Symbol =
      args: Array{Any}((2,))
        1: Expr
          head: Symbol ref
          args: Array{Any}((2,))
            1: Symbol a
            2: Int64 1
          typ: Any
        2: Int64 1
      typ: Any
  typ: Any

It seems the only difference is the line info, which I shouldn’t really need. Any help is appreciated.

5

Yes you do. You must provide them.

6

So which line is this referring to? I am making an expression in a generated function that uses an @inbounds block. So is it the line where I pushed the @inbounds expression to the block, or some other line? And does this mean if I press enter or rearrange functions, that I have to manually edit this all over the file!!!? Please tell me I am misunderstanding this.

7

Whereever the user can find how the code is generated.

So ideally, yes.

I mean, you can. But there’s @__LINE__.

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