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hygienic macros are a fun intellectual curiosity but using regular macros with gensym as needed is more practical
by smegsicle 4y ago
hygienic macros are a fun intellectual curiosity but using regular macros with gensym as needed is more practical
- shirleyquirk 4y agoOh man I couldn't disagree more. Having used Nim's hygienic templates, I strongly believe the escape hatch should be the other way round. Hygienic by default, tag individual identifiers as being 'dirty' to inject them as is into the surrounding scope. Edit: actually, I realize I don't know whether you meant 'macro' in the C sense or the Lisp sense. I was thinking C