It looks like this hasn't gone anywhere in the past few years, which is a
shame. Syntactic macros are one of the 2 or 3 "Killer features" that pushed me
out of Python and into Julia (along with JITting inferred types and multiple
dispatch). Math+data science code written in Julia is a lot more r
I’ve used lisp and scheme and one reason why you wouldn’t want a syntactic
macro is because there should be one and only one way to do a task.
Sure we have deviated that in the ecosystem but allowing syntactic macros can
have the side effect of many programs or projects to have multiple ways to
