Is there any hope of #6910/#10940 getting in, maybe early in the v0.6 release cycle? Having bruised my brain more than once with the current macro rules and when to use esc() or not, it would be very nice to see macro hygiene really cleaned up before v1.0, and doing it early in the v0.6 cycle might be the last chance to do so.
-Scott On Wednesday, July 6, 2016 at 12:09:56 AM UTC-4, Isaiah wrote: > > Is there a clear language spec for macros, or is it still evolving? I >> understand that relying on implementation to learn a language feature can >> be risky. >> > > There is no formal spec that I am aware of. However, I don't remember any > substantive changes except for this one in 0.5-dev: > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/14563 > > > (which is fairly minor: macro-methods can now dispatch on number of > arguments IIUC) > > There's one major proposal related to hygiene; no final decision on > whether/when it will be accepted: > > https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/6910 (rebased in #10940) > >
