ok, I appreciate the clarity
On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 8:02:01 PM UTC-4, Jameson wrote:
>
> A macro can't do this since it is strictly a pure source transform (it
> cannot access values or variables). `eval` is essentially an escape hatch
> to allow you to do anything, including this, but only in the global scope
> (and it's generally not recommended).
>
> it was a design decision in julia not to allow this in local scope. there
> are much better ways of solving the problem that don't cause issues for
> type inference. I recommend the following solution (in v0.4 syntax):
>
> Dict{AbstractString, Any}( [ name => jld_load(joinpath(path, name*".jld))
> for name in list ] )
>
> (not tested, so please forgive any typos)
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 5:26 PM Scott Jones <scott.pa...@gmail.com
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Why are you limiting it to an ASCIIString? variable names in Julia
>> frequently have Unicode characters.
>>
>>
>> On Saturday, July 11, 2015 at 4:06:43 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Sarnoff wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been trying to loop over variable names available as an
>>> ASCIIString vector, using each to generate the corresponding jld datafile
>>> path+name and load_ing() the datafile into its original variable name ..
>>> should this be done with string->symbol manipulation and/or is a macro
>>> required to effect an applicative assignment operator? I need some guidance
>>> on how to do it.
>>>
>>
