load behaviour is different with/without begin...end

[Roger-luo]

I come originally from https://discourse.julialang.org/t/from-from-fromfile-does-not-work-inside-begin-en-for-local-module-workflow/76100/2

MWE

julia> begin
       using LinearAlgebra
       LinearAlgebra.@commutative
       end
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: LinearAlgebra not defined
in expression starting at REPL[1]:3

I think Pluto users put every commands inside begin ... end so this should be considered equivalent to have the following directly in REPL

using LinearAlgebra
LinearAlgebra.@commutative

I'm not sure why the module followed with a macro is somehow evaluated before the module is loaded? I think most people would expect this to work.

[simeonschaub]

Those two aren't equivalent. Macro expansion will always happen on the whole top-level expression before any code is evaluated.