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This is also true for Racket. The language is basically all macros built on top of each other. While this superficial distinction between macros and other constructs serves a purpose, I think that purpose is largely misguided and invented.

What is the need for knowing if it's a macro or not when you could just know how it works (what'll it spit out / do?)?

While I do believe in limiting stuff for the sake of simplicity, this notation will actually burden the developer into not using the macro system fully, simply because someone wants there to be a non-forced distinction between macros and other constructs in the code.



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