When a .cljc file that contains macros is required and aliased in another namespace, macros are not automatically included. In that case the {{:include-macros}} flag must be set to true. Since the .cljc file is experienced as a single file one would expect macros to be included just like in Clojure.
David Nolen:
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The reason we don't do it automatically already is because it wasn't safe to do so when macro files and runtime files were separate
in the past just because a .clj file and .cljs file had the same name didn't mean anything all - implicitly loading the .clj file was not a good idea.
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