Re: [julia-users] Re: Uniform syntax

[Rafael Fourquet]

I think the OP's question is not about the difference between a macro
and a function, but rather about the syntactic way of defining a
macro: if a macro can be seen as a function taking an expression and
returning another one, why can't we just define a macro with the
standard function syntax (i.e. without the macro keyword), and inform
the compiler that we want to use it as a macro only at the call site,
by invoking it prepended with the @ sign.