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Definitely interested! I've wrapped my head around the CL/Clojure sort of macro but never really grasped the essence of Scheme's hygenic system, always happy t

• xscott 6y ago
  > [...] the R5RS/R7RS standard system is only pattern matching/rewriting based. Maybe I'll do a separate piece on the macro system if people are really interested. I'd like to throw in a "me too" too. I'm comfortable enough using Scheme's syntax-rules macros, and I've seen a couple examples where syntax-case macros do something beyond, but I'd love a walkthrough of how syntax-rules maintains hygiene and a concise explanation of how Clojure nearly accomplishes the same goal with namespaces.