By: jkrumbiegel.com

Re-posted from: https://jkrumbiegel.com/pages/2021-06-07-macros-for-beginners/

Macros are a powerful and interesting feature of the Julia programming language, but they can also be confusing. Users coming from Python, Matlab or R have not come in contact with similar constructs before, and they require a different way of thinking about code. This article is supposed to be a simple introduction, after which you might judge better when use of macros is appropriate and how to get around some of the most common gotchas.