[julia-users] Re: macros design

[Didier Verna]

I wrote:

>   What's the rationale behind this particular way of invoking macros
>   (the @ character) ? And why a single macro concept for two different
>   things (with or without arguments) ?

    Also, I'm wondering about the use of RETURN in all the one-liner
    macro examples from the manual. Why not just:

macro sayhello()
  :( println("Hello, world!") )
end

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