More than that, macros would be a static solution, expanding to sensible arguments parsing code at compile time. So much metaprogramming these days is dynamic w

More than that, macros would be a static solution, expanding to sensible arguments parsing code at compile time. So much metaprogramming these days is dynamic where you pay excessive interpretive cost to evaluate the little DSL every time the function is called. JavaScript programmers are guilty of this, but not nearly as guilty as Ruby programmers...