fix #37540, interpolation in quoted exprs returned from macros (#37573)

NEWS.md

@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ New language features
 Language changes
 ----------------
 
+* Macros that return `:quote` expressions (e.g. via `Expr(:quote, ...)`) were previously
+  able to work without escaping (`esc(...)`) their output when needed. This has been
+  corrected, and now `esc` must be used in these macros as it is in other macros ([#37540]).
 * The `-->` operator now lowers to a `:call` expression, so it can be defined as
   a function like other operators. The dotted version `.-->` is now parsed as well.
   For backwards compatibility, `-->` still parses using its own expression head

base/essentials.jl

@@ -216,10 +216,10 @@ Evaluate an expression with values interpolated into it using `eval`.
 If two arguments are provided, the first is the module to evaluate in.
 """
 macro eval(ex)
-    :(Core.eval($__module__, $(Expr(:quote,ex))))
+    return Expr(:escape, Expr(:call, GlobalRef(Core, :eval), __module__, Expr(:quote, ex)))
 end
 macro eval(mod, ex)
-    :(Core.eval($(esc(mod)), $(Expr(:quote,ex))))
+    return Expr(:escape, Expr(:call, GlobalRef(Core, :eval), mod, Expr(:quote, ex)))
 end
 
 argtail(x, rest...) = rest

src/ast.c

@@ -1028,12 +1028,6 @@ static jl_value_t *jl_expand_macros(jl_value_t *expr, jl_module_t *inmodule, str
     if (e->head == quote_sym && jl_expr_nargs(e) == 1) {
         expr = jl_call_scm_on_ast("julia-bq-macro", jl_exprarg(e, 0), inmodule);
         JL_GC_PUSH1(&expr);
-        if (macroctx) {
-            // in a macro, `quote` also implies `escape`
-            jl_expr_t *e2 = jl_exprn(escape_sym, 1);
-            jl_array_ptr_set(e2->args, 0, expr);
-            expr = (jl_value_t*)e2;
-        }
         expr = jl_expand_macros(expr, inmodule, macroctx, onelevel, world);
         JL_GC_POP();
         return expr;

stdlib/Distributed/src/macros.jl

@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@ macro everywhere(procs, ex)
     imps = extract_imports(ex)
     return quote
         $(isempty(imps) ? nothing : Expr(:toplevel, imps...)) # run imports locally first
-        let ex = Expr(:toplevel, :(task_local_storage()[:SOURCE_PATH] = $(get(task_local_storage(), :SOURCE_PATH, nothing))), $(Expr(:quote, ex))),
+        let ex = Expr(:toplevel, :(task_local_storage()[:SOURCE_PATH] = $(get(task_local_storage(), :SOURCE_PATH, nothing))), $(esc(Expr(:quote, ex)))),
             procs = $(esc(procs))
             remotecall_eval(Main, procs, ex)
         end

test/syntax.jl

@@ -2365,6 +2365,15 @@ end
 # issue #37656
 @test :(if true 'a' else 1 end) == Expr(:if, true, quote 'a' end, quote 1 end)
 
+# issue #37540
+macro m37540()
+    quote
+        x = 1
+        :($x)
+    end
+end
+@test @m37540() == 1
+
 # issue #37890
 struct A37890{A, B}
     a