Hi! :smile: This is a proposal for an additional macrocall syntax which will parse past newlines until an end is encountered. The idea is to have a syntax which allows using a macro more akin to reserved keyword blocks such as function, struct, etc., without requiring manual use of begin ... end. …

IIRC @jeff.bezanson and I had discussed this very syntax idea at some point.

Actually, I personally did not think of this suggestion as being related to pattern matching, but instead being all about the aesthetics; having a clean way to split arguments to a macro over several lines. That it shares some features with pattern matching is to me tangential. Having a “line cont…

Line continuation PR: Add a line continuation character '⤸' JuliaLang:master ← JuliaLang:cjf/line-continuation opened 08:49PM - 19 Sep 18 UTC (UTC) [c42f] c42f …

New syntax for multi-line macrocalls

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Use multi-line arguments to macros without commas with a (new) block structure General Usage question , proposal	12	2962	February 9, 2019
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Is there a way to make macros consume forms past a newline? General Usage proposal , macros	3	889	January 11, 2018
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New syntax for multi-line macrocalls

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