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
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
