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>>=20
>>> LGTM, but couldn't it be a function?
>>=20
>> A macro does not needlessly eval the args.
>=20
> The proposed macro expansions do eval all the args.

The eval occurs after the macro expansion, right? that is why there is =
the defmacro.=