Escaping the quote op doesn't seem to work

[bluenote10]

My interpretation of the quote docstring is that doubling up the quote op should escape it, i.e., I expected the following to work:

Example

import macros

static:
  let node = quote:
    ``+``(a, b)

Current Output

test.nim(5, 6) Error: identifier expected, but got '`'

Expected Output

Should compile.

Additional Information

$ nim -v
Nim Compiler Version 0.19.9 [Linux: amd64]
Compiled at 2019-04-13
Copyright (c) 2006-2019 by Andreas Rumpf

git hash: f6ad071a46a2bec57db453343d8d8b75d3d16ac2
active boot switches: -d:release

[bluenote10]

Hm, maybe I don't have to double up the backticks? What I'm actually trying to achieve is passing an AST involving backticks to a compile time proc:

proc test(n: NimNode) =
  echo n.treeRepr

static:
  test:
    quote:
      `+`(a, b)

which errors with test.nim(13, 8) Error: cannot generate VM code for + but works fine as long as the AST doesn't contain backticks.

On the other hand I noticed that this works in general:

import macros

dumpTree:
  quote:
    `+`(a, b)

[mratsim]

Duplicate: #7589

See also RFC: nim-lang/RFCs#122
and PR: #10446