Basics

• What is a “symbol” in Julia?
• Looking for good macro examples
• π's Metaprogramming bits & bobs
• Assigning a macro to a variable
• Create local function variables programmatically from a dictionnary
• using a name macro for variables from a functions inputs
• Is it possible to create types in Julia at runtime?
• Efficient way to define new variables by iterating a dictionary (Julia)
• How to interpolate a symbol as a Symbol in a Julia Expr?

Quoting Mechanism

• Interpolating an Expression into an Expression
• Disambiguate the various quoting mechanisms in Julia metaprogramming
• difference between Meta.quot, Expr(:quote), and QuoteNode #6104

eval

• Best way to eval in a given scope / context which is in the form of a Dict?
• what scopes does isdefined() look in?

@generated Macro

• Jake Bolewski: Staged programming in Julia
• Staged programming - Jake Bolewski's speech
• Generating type-stable getfield calls using generated functions
• @_inline_meta

Macro Hygiene

• RFC: Improvement to hygienic macros #6910
• RFC: WIP: Make macro hygiene easier to use and less error-prone #10940
• Using gensym properly
• Broken macro functionality in Julia v0.6
• Symbols passed to macros in a module improperly scoped #15085
• How can I define a julia macro that defines a macro?

Packages

• MacroTools.jl
• Sugar.jl
• Transpiler.jl