To be honest I wasn't thinking of Haskell when I mentioned "other languages". Haskell has less need for macros for the reasons you mentioned. Lazy evaluation al

To be honest I wasn't thinking of Haskell when I mentioned "other languages". Haskell has less need for macros for the reasons you mentioned. Lazy evaluation also makes macros unnecessary for creating your own conditionals. For eager-evaluation languages, or languages without such concise syntax for functional composition, macros fill a real need.