diff --git a/fitnesse/FitNesseRoot/RecentChanges.wiki b/fitnesse/FitNesseRoot/RecentChanges.wiki
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--- a/fitnesse/FitNesseRoot/RecentChanges.wiki
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@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+|TranscendentalLisp.Macros||10:10:15 Mon, Mar 13, 2017|
+|TranscendentalLisp.MacroTests||10:07:00 Mon, Mar 13, 2017|
 |TranscendentalLisp.FinanceUnitTests||11:07:42 Thu, Mar 09, 2017|
 |TranscendentalLisp.LangUnitTests||11:04:17 Thu, Mar 09, 2017|
 |TranscendentalLisp.LexicalClosures||16:39:59 Tue, Mar 07, 2017|
diff --git a/fitnesse/FitNesseRoot/TranscendentalLisp/Macros.wiki b/fitnesse/FitNesseRoot/TranscendentalLisp/Macros.wiki
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index 0000000..437a350
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@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+---
+Test
+---
+A simple macro example.
+
+| script                | lisp interpreter fixture     |
+| check | evaluate text | (load "lisp/macro/nif.lisp") | T |
+| check | evaluate text | (nif 10 'p 'z 'n)            | P |
+| check | evaluate text | (nif 0 'p 'z 'n)             | Z |
+| check | evaluate text | (nif -2 'p 'z 'n)            | N |
+| check | evaluate text | (nif (- 10 9) 'p 'z 'n)      | P |
+
diff --git a/lisp/macro/nif.lisp b/lisp/macro/nif.lisp
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+(defun plusp (n) (> n 0))
+(defun zerop (n) (= n 0))
+
+(defmacro nif (expr pos zero neg)
+  (let ((g (gensym)))
+    `(let ((,g ,expr))
+       (cond ((plusp ,g) ,pos)
+             ((zerop ,g) ,zero)
+             (t ,neg)))))
diff --git a/test/function/builtin/EVALTester.java b/test/function/builtin/EVALTester.java
index ec6b9ff..445abe5 100644
--- a/test/function/builtin/EVALTester.java
+++ b/test/function/builtin/EVALTester.java
@@ -162,4 +162,11 @@ public class EVALTester {
         assertSExpressionsMatch(parseString("((1 2 3))"), evaluateString(input));
     }
 
+    @Test
+    public void evalNestedBackquotesInList() {
+        String input = "`(,`(1 ,`2 ,@`(3)))";
+
+        assertSExpressionsMatch(parseString("((1 2 3))"), evaluateString(input));
+    }
+
 }