Yes, you could do that with a function. I think that was a bad example. I listed some situations where you need a macro in my comment that explains the “first

Yes, you could do that with a function. I think that was a bad example. I listed some situations where you need a macro in my comment that explains the “first rule of the macro club” you asked about: https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9513988 https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=9513988