On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 8:59:54 AM UTC-4, Yichao Yu wrote:
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> Macros cannot be scope local (without major change of everything)
> since they are executed at compile time and doesn't know anything in
> the scope.
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Local macros in Lisp are expanded at compile-time. They're useful inside
macro-expansions, eg.
@define_model() begin
@var x = 10 # @var is a local macro, whose expansion depends on the
@define_model arguments
end
I don't see why Julia couldn't support that.
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