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by ssebastianj 2855 days ago
Relevant link: "PEP 563: Postponed Evaluation of Annotations" https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.7.html#pep-563-postpone...
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If your macro isn't changing execution semantics, it probably doesn't need to be a macro.

This is why (if needs to be a special form if your language is eager, but you want to have short circuit conditionals. If you language is lazy, lots of things DON'T need to be macros.