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Revision 136f018e7473e48ebb90ed5bc8dc6ad3dd109d6f authored by Keno Fischer on 01 March 2024, 06:32:36 UTC, committed by GitHub on 01 March 2024, 06:32:36 UTC 
Allow GlobalRef and module qualified names in macro definitions (#53535)
 
The following is currently an error:
```
julia> module MyMacroModule
           macro mymacro end
       end
Main.MyMacroModule

julia> macro MyMacroModule.mymacro()
           1
       end
ERROR: syntax: invalid macro definition around REPL[2]:1
Stacktrace:
 [1] top-level scope
   @ REPL[2]:1
```

Discussing with Jeff, we didn't think there was any good reason not to
allow this, just a missing case in lowering. It's probably not
particularly useful (unlike the corresponding case for functions that is
used all the time), but it came up in writing a test case for #53515.
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Tip revision: 136f018e7473e48ebb90ed5bc8dc6ad3dd109d6f authored by Keno Fischer on 01 March 2024, 06:32:36 UTC
Allow GlobalRef and module qualified names in macro definitions (#53535)
Tip revision: 136f018
CITATION.bib 
% This article is the definitive citation for Julia.
@article{Julia-2017,
    title={Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing},
    author={Bezanson, Jeff and Edelman, Alan and Karpinski, Stefan and Shah, Viral B},
    journal={SIAM {R}eview},
    volume={59},
    number={1},
    pages={65--98},
    year={2017},
    publisher={SIAM},
    doi={10.1137/141000671},
    url={https://epubs.siam.org/doi/10.1137/141000671}
}

% For more details on research related to Julia, see https://julialang.org/research
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