Yeah, they're the ultimate 'syntactic sugar'. They take a bit of time to wrap your brain around, but it's much easier to figure out what a macro is doing under

Yeah, they're the ultimate 'syntactic sugar'. They take a bit of time to wrap your brain around, but it's much easier to figure out what a macro is doing under the hood than it is to figure out that exact semantics of syntactic sugars in other languages. I try not to use them as much as I can, but for a certain subset of problems there's nothing better for eliminating repetitive code and for taking the language semantics out of the foreground so that you're just left with your application semantics.