Syntax suggestion: end<control>

Internals & Design
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You could do something like this, just as a proof of concept (not taking elseif/else branches into account), similar macros could be done for the other type of blocks:

julia> @eval macro $(:if)(condition, expression, terminator::Symbol)
           terminator ≠ :endif && error()
           quote
               if $condition
                   $expression
               end
           end |> esc
       end
@if (macro with 1 method)

julia> x = 42
42

julia> @if x == 42 (
           info("yep!")
       ) endif
INFO: yep!

julia> @macroexpand @if x == 42 (
           info("yep!")
       ) endif
quote  # REPL[9], line 4:
    if x == 42 # REPL[9], line 5:
        info("yep!")
    end
end

But then again in Julia a lot of control nesting can become a lot of multiple dispatch instead, I would refactor such a long if block. In Julia you can have pretty much any syntax you like and in a package.

I just wish there where some kind of macro line continuation syntax or semantics, but the parenthesis do the job here (instead of a begin ... end, which would defeat the purpose of the trailing endif).

Also you could always do:

if (a=b)
   continue
end # if

:stuck_out_tongue:

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