https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/7449 https://github.com/JuliaLang/Compat.jl/pull/131 https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5892
On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 7:23 AM, andrew cooke <and...@acooke.org> wrote: > > when you're writing code that uses macros, supporting different versions of > julia seems to be more complex than normal. in particular, things like: > > if VERSION > XX > # code with macros here > end > > don't work as expected, because macro expansion occurs before runtime > evaluation. so the macros are expenaded whatever version. > > given that, i have found this simple macro to be useful; > > macro cond(test, block) > if eval(test) > block > end > end > > @cond VERSION >= v"0.4" begin > # code with macros here > end > > anyway, my questions are: (1) is the above sensible and (2) does this > already exist? > > thanks, > andrew >
