Does running that sequence of commands in the REPL work?
On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Ethan Anderes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> >> 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 >>> >>> >> >> >
