Right, I had tried using esc (even though I don’t really understand why I
need it) but I still get an error.
Here’s the macro (I took out using ProfileView)
macro profileview(ex)
quote
Profile.clear()
@profile $(esc(ex))
# using ProfileView
ProfileView.view()
end
end
and here is the error
julia> using ProfileView
julia> @profileview sin(10)
WARNING: There were no samples collected. Run your program longer (perhaps by
running it multiple times), or adjust the delay between samples with
Profile.init().
ERROR: `start` has no method matching start(::Nothing)
in view at /Users/ethananderes/.julia/v0.3/ProfileView/src/ProfileView.jl:116
(repeats 2 times)
in anonymous at none:6
Maybe this is a ProfileView thing? Anyhoo, thanks.
Ethan
On Tuesday, August 26, 2014 10:02:30 AM UTC-7, Stefan Karpinski wrote:
To make your macro hygienic, you need to do this:
>
> macro profileview(ex)
> quote
> Profile.clear()
> @profile $(esc(ex))
> using ProfileView
> ProfileView.view()
> end
> end
>
>
> There also may be a problem with having `using ProfileView` emitted in a
> macro like this, but fixing the hygiene issue is a good first thing to try.
>
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Ethan Anderes <[email protected]
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Hi Folks,
>> I’m trying to write a macro for my .juliarc.jl file which lays down the
>> syntax for generating a ProfileView. I use ProfileView infrequent enough
>> that whenever I use it I need to refer to the github page. To fix this I
>> want to write something really quick and easy but I’m running into problems
>> with the following macro.
>>
>> macro profileview(ex)
>> quote
>> Profile.clear()
>> @profile $ex
>> using ProfileView
>> ProfileView.view() # <---- this seems to be the problem
>> end
>> end
>>
>> I get the following error
>>
>> julia> @profileview sin(10)
>> ERROR: error compiling anonymous: unsupported or misplaced expression using
>> in function anonymous
>>
>> I don’t have any experience with macros so I can’t tell what I’m doing
>> wrong here. I would like to be able to write @profileview foo(x) and
>> have the profile window pop up. Any suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ethan
>>
>>
>
>
