I'm not sure I understand what you said, but if you absolutely want to have "traditional" non-hygienic macros that manipulate Sexprs rather than syntax objects

I'm not sure I understand what you said, but if you absolutely want to have "traditional" non-hygienic macros that manipulate Sexprs rather than syntax objects in Racket, you can: https://docs.racket-lang.org/compatibility/defmacro.html https://docs.racket-lang.org/compatibility/defmacro.html