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by ghusbands 5203 days ago
I agree that Scala's excellent implicits, syntactic sugar, destructuring and other pattern matching indeed cover a great number of typical macro use-cases, but to say there is "no need" may be a little strong. http://scalamacros.org/usecases/ lists a number of improvements macros can bring over current Scala syntax for some operations.