Both of these work and are probably what he intended to do.
template someCode(name: untyped): untyped =
var fname {.inject.} = "Mark"
var age {.inject.} = 44
type name = object
fname: string
age: int
someCode somename
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template someCode(name: untyped): untyped {.dirty.} =
var fname = "Mark"
var age = 44
type name = object
fname: string
age: int
someCode somename
Run
* So the problem is it's trying to use gensymed variable names as field names.
* If you really want the variables and fields to have the same name and not
have access to the variables outside of the template invocation.
import macros
macro someCode(name : untyped) : untyped =
var fname = ident"fname"
var age = ident"age"
result = quote do:
var fname = "Mark"
var age = 44
type `name` = object
`fname`: string
`age` : int
#echo treeRepr result
#echo repr result
someCode somename
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