# New syntax for multi-line macrocalls

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-syntax-for-multi-line-macrocalls/21571>\
**Category:** Internals & Design\
**Tags:** proposal\
**Created:** [March 7, 2019, 1:45pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-syntax-for-multi-line-macrocalls/21571 "2019-03-07T13:45:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Evey](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/evey/32/214967_2.png) [@Evey](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Evey)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2019, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/new-syntax-for-multi-line-macrocalls/21571/4 "2019-03-07T14:59:09Z")

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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 continuation” character could achieve the same purpose, but I personally don’t know which character should be used for this and I am not super fond of how it reads (e.g., `\` in Python).

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