On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 8:37 AM, Tom Breloff <t...@breloff.com> wrote: > I think this will work: > >> for (fn, arg) = ((:toucha, "a"), (:touchb, "b")) >> cmd = `touch $arg` >> @eval $fn() = run($cmd)
I believe `` @eval $fn() = run($`touch $arg`) `` also works >> end > > > > On Fri, May 13, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Andrew Gibb <andrew.g...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> I'm trying to use metaprogramming to create two functions. Each of which >> includes a similar, long, call to run(). The calls are not quite identical. >> Some flags have different arguments, and some are only present on one call. >> I can't work out how to get expression interpolation to happen within >> command interpolation. For example: >> >> for (fn, arg) = ((:toucha, "a"), (:touchb, "b")) >> #@eval ($fn)() = run(`touch $arg`) >> @eval ($fn)() = run(`touch $(@eval ($arg))`) >> end >> >> In the first of these cases, the result for toucha is >> toucha() = run(`touch $arg`) >> >> and similarly for the second result, the parsing character $ is ignored by >> the eval. Is there a way to get this to instead return >> toucha() = run(`touch a`) >> >> ? > >
