What are the rules for qualified/unqualified symbols in macros? (or is it a bug?)

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This may or may not be a bug, I’m not sure - but as a workaround, you can just esc the entire expression returned by your macro and it seems to work.

If you don’t need macro hygiene anywhere, you don’t need to do targeted esc’s like that.

 macro make_struct(arg)
    esc(quote
            struct $arg
                x
            end
            export $arg
        end
    )
end

julia> @macroexpand @make_many_structs
quote
    #= REPL[9]:3 =#
    begin
        #= REPL[6]:3 =#
        struct Foo
            #= REPL[6]:4 =#
            x
        end
        #= REPL[6]:6 =#
        export Foo
    end
    begin
        #= REPL[6]:3 =#
        struct Bar
            #= REPL[6]:4 =#
            x
        end
        #= REPL[6]:6 =#
        export Bar
    end
end
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