Yeah it's possible, but it leads to somewhat awkward languages where you have sometimes multiple levels of desugaring going on and it's annoying. The last time

Yeah it's possible, but it leads to somewhat awkward languages where you have sometimes multiple levels of desugaring going on and it's annoying. The last time I looked into Julia (IIRC >6 years ago) it had something similar going on and it really scared me off. The problem with having a "technically homoiconic" language is that you're going to end up with not only lots of desugaring, but multiple syntaxes for the same things.