That's a really good point that I'd not really thought about. I'd never really considered the difference between calling just functions versus macros. Thinking

That's a really good point that I'd not really thought about. I'd never really considered the difference between calling just functions versus macros. Thinking about Query.jl and DataFramesMeta.jl, and I am for sure not an expert in either, I can't specifically speak to your `head` example, but other base functions can be combined with macros. For example, see the LINQ examples from DataFramesMeta.jl[1] where `mean` is being used. Or again the LINQ style examples in Query.jl[2], where `descending` is used in the first example, or `length` later in the Grouping examples. Is that the kind of thing you meant? For whatever reason, with the way my brain is wired, the LINQ style of query just works for me. I have never directly used LINQ, but do have some SQL experience. In fact, I wrote some dinky little wrapper functions[3] around duckdb[4] so I could directly query R dataframes and datatables with SQL using that backend, rather than sqldf[5]. [1] https://juliadata.github.io/DataFramesMeta.jl/stable/#@linq-and-other-chaining-macros https://juliadata.github.io/DataFramesMeta.jl/stable/#@linq-... [2] https://www.queryverse.org/Query.jl/stable/linqquerycommands/ https://www.queryverse.org/Query.jl/stable/linqquerycommands... [3] https://github.com/phillc73/duckdf https://github.com/phillc73/duckdf [4] https://duckdb.org/ https://duckdb.org/ [5] https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/index.html https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sqldf/index.html