Scala macros: contextual DSL (limiting usage of macros to scopes)

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I am attempting to build a DSL using Scala macros.

Suppose I have two macros

def add(x: Int, y: Int): Unit = macro Macros.mImpl
def builder(body: => Unit): Unit = macro Macros.builderImpl

where Macros is some object in which the macro behaviour is defined.

The intended use of these macros is to write things such as:

def example: Unit =
  builder {
    println("Hello, world!")
    // Some statements...
    add(4, 5)
    // Some more statements...
  }

The key thing here is that within the DSL, add should only be only allowed to occur within a builder block.

For example, the following should not be allowed:

def bad: Unit = add(4, 5)

I would like to find some way of ensuring that such occurrences of add are forbidden by the compiler.

Any solution will do: either through the type system (but I really don't see how), or through the macro mechanism itself.

Since macros are expanded from the innermost context outwards (that is, bottom up, not top down), I don't see how I can achieve this from within the macro definition of add.

(Feel free to modify the return types or definition sites of the macros if it helps; they were chosen for the sake of a simple example.)

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