DIP78 - macros without syntax extensions

[Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 15:20:38 UTC, weaselcat wrote:
> On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 12:39:52 UTC, ixid wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 12:34:49 UTC, Daniel Kozák wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wed, 27 May 2015 12:07:09 +0000
>>> Dennis Ritchie via Digitalmars-d 
>>> <digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, 27 May 2015 at 11:53:00 UTC, Jacob Carlborg 
>>>> wrote:
>>>> > I have thought of that too. But I haven't been able to 
>>>> > come up with a syntax that looks good and doesn't conflict 
>>>> > with any existing syntax/symbol. The above syntax is 
>>>> > already used for template instantiation.
>>>> 
>>>> What if use the symbol '#' ?
>>>
>>> Yep, I like this symbol for macro too.
>>
>> What's wrong with using the word macro? We don't want symbol 
>> soup.
>
> this, there's a reason people don't use lisp.

Lisp is not used due to other reasons, symbol soup typical for 
Perl :)
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