DIP78 - macros without syntax extensions

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On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 12:55:05 UTC, Dennis Ritchie wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 12:37:51 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 12:34:49 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>>>> What if use the symbol '#' ?
>>>
>>> Yep, I like this symbol for macro too.
>>
>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2660
>
> OK. This symbol is already used in a wrong place :)
>
> http://dlang.org/lex.html#special-token-sequence
>
> You can still use `:`. The colon is used even to refer to some 
> Lisp macros, for example:
>
> (loop :for key :in keys
>     :collect (cons key 0))
>
> Still, as an option, you can use the `'` . This symbol is also 
> used in Lisp, in some places, for example:
>
> (key-weight 'sweet)
>
> Or apostrophes, too, somewhere involved in the D?

As far as I know, the : and ' symbols in Lisp don't have anything 
to do with macros. : is for keyword arguments and ' is for 
creating AST literals. It makes sense that these would be heavily 
used with macros, of course, but they are not part of Lisp's 
macro system.