...with compiler internal parsing/semantic phase.

Actual "macro" keyword syntax sugar is hardly important to...

...they are.

One win that the AST macro concept provides that string mixins does not...

...it's very ugly to do without macro support to the point of being impractical...

...not matter that much if it is macro or mixin. Key feature is AST reflection...

...t know much about linq but in macro context I'd expect it to generate...

...Because it's syntax sugar, an AST macro syntax would be most convincing if you...

...very heavy use of such macros in macro assemblers. What happens is people use it...

...much as I'd like to have macro, I don't think this is the...

...to be.)

We did not have a macro-based solution when D was being invented...

...features.

If we put aside the AST macro thing (granted we have a swiss army...