I've committed it as of r11820. Since it parses by tokens, braces
inside of strings are allowed.
With regard to clashing, pir specials take precedent over macros. The
complications that could arise from accidental recursion, etc, seems
complex. As for your .local example, you can always use
Neat: It's backward-compatible and makes macros more useful, so file it
under "improvement" and commit it. Two and a half Qs:
It looks to me like this implementation is safe against "{" and "}" in
strings, right?
(Not a new issue, but since we're on the subject of macros:) If I define a
macro na
