[lgessler]

I did say if. Macros often aren't the right choice, but there are times when they're appropriate, and on the premise that the new syntax would be good and responsible, it's great to not have the headache of monitoring compatibility tables for 2+ years.

When you get to the scale of enterprise software, though, I'd agree with you that the best thing to do is probably not to allow any macros at all. The inevitable abuse at the hands of inexperienced developers would quickly overtake any gains from more responsible macros without perhaps some clever and/or toilsome code review processes.