16 Macros
A macro is a syntactic form with an associated transformer that expands the original form into existing forms. To put it another way, a macro is an extension to the Racket compiler. Most of the syntactic forms of racket/base and racket are actually macros that expand into a small set of core constructs.
Like many languages, Racket provides pattern-based macros that
make simple transformations easy to implement and reliable to
use. Racket also supports arbitrary macro transformers that are
implemented in Racket—