On Mon, Sep 28, 2020 at 7:23 AM Marco Sulla <marco.sulla.pyt...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Sep 2020 at 13:56, Nick Coghlan <ncogh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > For usage, whether something is a macro or not should either be
> irrelevant (when they're used as a more powerful function call or
> > decorator), or else entirely obvious from the way you use it (when
> they're defining a new pseudo-statement), so it doesn't make sense to
> > emphasize the syntactic marker too much.
>
> IMHO `import!` can be easily confused with `import`, even with a
> monospace font. An alternative is that macro must have a name
> different from keywords (so you will have macro_import!, for example),
> even if I'd prefer my first proposal (maybe something like %import).
>

I think the whole point is that import! won't be obvious unless you're
looking for it, and those macros won't be obvious unless you're looking for
them. They're meant to blend in rather than stand out.
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