This is why I think macro systems ought to be a must-have feature in modern programming languages. There's no way that language designers can anticipate every

This is why I think macro systems ought to be a must-have feature in modern programming languages. There's no way that language designers can anticipate every type of convenient syntax, nor would they accept everything that we might want. Then, if they decide to add the new syntax we've been clamoring for, we have to wait for the implementation that includes it to become widely available, especially so in the case of JavaScript. We lowly programmers should be able to put on our language designer hat and extend the syntax of our languages as needed.