Writing a keyword list guard?

Questions / Help
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I’d like a guard to determine if the value is a keyword list or not. I’ve tried the following macro:

defmacro is_keyword([{key, _value} | _tail]), do: quote do: is_atom(unquote(key))

but when I pass in a keyword list I get this error: ** (FunctionClauseError) no function clause matching in is_keyword/1

however if I remove the pattern matching in the function signature everything seems to work ok. So I’m lead to believe that pattern matching isn’t permitted in guards. If that’s the case how best can I write a single guard for keyword list detection? (yeah I know it should be a recursive function)

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Never mind, rubber ducking this one out and realized it is a compile-time thing and not a runtime thing.