[julia-users] code generation with @eval

[Amit Murthy]

I was trying to add a bunch  of common functions to DistributedArrays.jl 
with the below code block

for f in [:sum, :minimum, :maximum, :mean]
    @eval begin
        import Base: ($f)
        export ($f)
        function ($f)(D::DArray)
            refs = [@spawnat p ($f)(localpart(D)) for p in procs(D)]
            ($f)([fetch(r) for r in refs])
        end
    end
end


 
But I get an error 

ERROR: LoadError: syntax: invalid "import" statement: expected identifier
 in include at ./boot.jl:250
 in include_from_node1 at ./loading.jl:129
 in reload_path at ./loading.jl:153
 in _require at ./loading.jl:68
 in require at ./loading.jl:51
 in process_options at ./client.jl:292
 in _start at ./client.jl:402
while loading /home/amitm/.julia/v0.4/DistributedArrays/src/
DistributedArrays.jl, in expression starting on line 497



What am I doing wrong ?