# Macro Monstrosity: Some Questions

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**Created:** [September 14, 2023, 4:43pm UTC](https://racket.discourse.group/t/macro-monstrosity-some-questions/2311 "2023-09-14T16:43:06Z")\
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Thank you, @soegaard, that makes sense.

Question: would it be possible to write a macro that automatically replaced something like `(ellipse n)` with the appropriate level of nested escapes, say

```scheme
(ellipse 0) ≡ ...
(ellipse 1) ≡ (... ...)
(ellipse 2) ≡ ((... ...) (... ...))
etc.

```

Would it be a reader macro? I don't know much about them, but when I think of the problem, I assume it must happen before any actual pattern matching and application occurs, at least for the contexts where it [the "macro"] appears.

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