Yes, I didn't mean to imply that you needed to explicitly eval with macros. Rather that the nature of macros themselves is saying, eval this bit at compile tim

Yes, I didn't mean to imply that you needed to explicitly eval with macros. Rather that the nature of macros themselves is saying, eval this bit at compile time and that bit at run time. You are implicitly and safely doing what most languages would need an explicit eval call to do.