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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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CITATION.cff 
cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "Cite this paper whenever you use Julia"
authors:
- family-names: "Bezanson"
  given-names: "Jeff"
- family-names: "Edelman"
  given-names: "Alan"
- family-names: "Karpinski"
  given-names: "Stefan"
- family-names: "Shah"
  given-names: "Viral B."
title: "Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing"
version: "v1"
license: "MIT"
doi: "10.1137/141000671"
date-released: 2017-02-07
url: "https://julialang.org"
preferred-citation:
  authors:
    - family-names: "Bezanson"
      given-names: "Jeff"
    - family-names: "Edelman"
      given-names: "Alan"
    - family-names: "Karpinski"
      given-names: "Stefan"
    - family-names: "Shah"
      given-names: "Viral B."
  doi: "10.1137/141000671"
  journal: "SIAM Review"
  month: 9
  start: 65
  end: 98
  pages: 33
  title: "Julia: A fresh approach to numerical computing"
  type: article
  volume: 59
  issue: 1
  year: 2017
  publisher:
    name: "SIAM"
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