DIP78 - macros without syntax extensions

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 13:12:05 UTC, Meta wrote:
> 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.

Yes, but IMO, these symbols can be activated in the future 
macrosystem D.