Hi, I am new to Julia, but have a background in Lisp and other languages. I found it interesting that Julia supports Macros similar to Lisp. A few questions: 1) Julia uses "@" operator as a prefix to a macro call. Why is this needed at all? Why not call it like a normal function without the prefix?
2) Consider this macro: macro myEval(anexpr) parse(anexpr) end After defining this macro, the expression: typeof(myEval) triggers an "undefVarError". Why? The symbol "myEval" is a macro definition. There must be some type for it? (If this is a "Function", then type is returned correctly.) 3) Julia allows me to define both a function and a macro to have the same name. Isn't this likely to lead to subtle mistakes? Regards, Rangarajan
