Julia is not lisp like, and has macros [1]. The way it works is that your code is first interpreted to get the AST that looks like LISP code (`a+bc+1` becomes `

Julia is not lisp like, and has macros [1]. The way it works is that your code is first interpreted to get the AST that looks like LISP code (`a+bc+1` becomes `+(a,(b,c),1)`) and your macro operates on that. So basically it works like a lisp macro (until you want to create a macro that creates macro, which is something I haven't done but heard about). http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/manual/metaprogramming/ http://docs.julialang.org/en/release-0.2/manual/metaprogramm...