DataFramesMeta’s macros are weird, because they want to behave like functions. @transform(df, y = 5), but they are still macros. If @transform were a function, it would be implemented like transform(df; kwargs...). Indeed, this is how the functions that @transform calls work. So I thought, in Data…

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Weird macro behavior trying to simulate keyword arguments

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Tamas_Papp November 21, 2018, 9:24am 3

Not unless it is considered a bug, and the changes don’t break any registered package.

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Weird macro behavior trying to simulate keyword arguments

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