DIP78 - macros without syntax extensions

[Kagamin via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 06:54:56 UTC, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
> I'm not sure how this is different for DIP50. I can see the 
> obvious differences in the syntax how to declare a macro and so 
> on. But otherwise they look very similar.

I believe 78 allows a simpler implementation and requires less 
changes to the language, though I'm not sure if frontend can get 
it done on a purely semantical level: similar techniques like 
mixins and static if rely on syntax. Maybe a macro should be 
called with a special syntax, e.g. myAssert!(a==b);